Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

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Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born December 10, 1776 in Berlin ; † November 19, 1835 there ) belongs to the German-Jewish Mendelssohn family . Between 1804 and 1821, together with his brother Joseph, he ran the Mendelssohn banking house that he founded and, like him, was one of the founding members of the Society of Friends .

His parents were the businessman and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and Fromet Gugenheim . As Abraham Mendelssohn he was trained at the beginning of the 19th century at the Fould & Co banking house in Paris. During a stay in Berlin he met his future wife Lea Salomon , who gave birth to four children on December 26, 1804 after their wedding. After the young family had initially lived in Hamburg, they moved to Berlin in 1811, forced by the French annexation of the Hanseatic city. As a merchant, Abraham Mendelssohn made a not inconsiderable fortune. He raised his children in a Christian way. In 1816 he had all four children baptized Christian and in 1822 he and his wife converted to Protestantism themselves . A few weeks later, Abraham received official permission to use the additional name "Bartholdy". It was the name of the owner of a dairy that the father of his wife Lea Salomon bought from Freiherr Friedrich Christian v. Bartholdy had bought. His wife's brothers, Jacob and Isaac Salomon, had already taken on this new family name after their baptism.

Two of Mendelssohn Bartholdy's four children became famous as musicians: his first daughter Fanny , who married the painter Wilhelm Hensel , was just as famous a composer as her world-famous brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , born in 1809 . His son Paul , who was also musically gifted, however, joined the family bank, which he headed as senior director from 1871.

Grave of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin-Kreuzberg
Excerpt from the family tree of the Mendelssohn family with the children of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy on the wall of the permanent exhibition in the former chapel on the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy died in Berlin in 1835 at the age of almost 59. The burial took place in Trinity Cemetery I in front of Hallesches Tor . His wife Lea was buried next to him seven years later. Two tall, flat steles serve as grave markers in the lattice grave. The hereditary burial of Hensel / Mendelssohn Bartholdy, in which their children Fanny and Felix are buried, and the grave of their son Paul are also nearby. The last resting place of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (grave location DV1-1-2) was dedicated to the State of Berlin from 1952 to 2015 as an honorary grave .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the tombstone, the date of birth is December 11, 1776.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , Leuckart, Leipzig, 1886, p 9 in the new edition of Karl-Maria Guth, in 2014 in Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8430-4887-3 published
  3. ↑ Hermann Simon: Moses Mendelssohn - Law- abiding Jew and German Enlightenment , Hentrich & Hentrich, 2003, ISBN 3933471451 , p. 51
  4. ↑ Jacobsen, Jacob: From Mendelssohn to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy . In: Yearbook Leo Baeck Institute . tape 5 (1960) , pp. 255 .
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 226–227.
personal data
SURNAME Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abraham Mendelssohn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1835
Place of death Berlin