Dohnányi

The von Dohnányi family ( German : [ doˈnaːni ], Hungarian : [ ˈdohnaːnji ]) has become known in several generations through prominent representatives from the fields of science, art and politics.

history

The Hungarian Dohnanyi family was ennobled in 1653 for their services in the Turkish Wars. The ending -nyi replaces the nobility predicate of used in the German-speaking world in Hungarian . The first surviving family member was György Dohnányi mentioned in 1631. According to family tradition, the Hungarian Dohnányi are said to be descended from an immigrant member of the Bohemian line of the Counts of Dohna , but they have a different coat of arms (with a jumping deer instead of two crossed stag poles).

The family since the 20th century - as the family Weizsäcker or Albrecht - the most famous "dynasties" of the German educated classes .

Known family members

• Friedrich Dohnányi ( Hungarian : Dohnányi Frigyes) (1843–1909), Hungarian professor of mathematics and amateur cellist
  • Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian pianist and composer
  • married from 1919 to 1949 to Elsa Marguérite Galafrés , German theater actress
    • Margarete (Grete) von Dohnanyi (1903–1992), married to Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957), chemist
    • Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945), German lawyer and resistance fighter, married to Christine von Dohnanyi b. Bonhoeffer (1903–1965), sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), theologian and resistance fighter, by Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), lawyer and resistance fighter and by Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957), chemist
      • Bärbel von Dohnanyi (1926-2016)
      • Klaus von Dohnanyi (* 1928), German politician (SPD)
        • Johannes von Dohnanyi (* 1952), German journalist and author
      • Christoph von Dohnányi (* 1929), German conductor and artistic director
        • Justus von Dohnányi (* 1960), German actor

• Miguel von Dohnányi (1978–2012), German physician and author
• Oliver von Dohnányi (* 1955), Czech-Slovak conductor

literature

• Jochen Thies : The Dohnanyis. A family biography. Propylaen Verlag, Munich 2004; ISBN 3-549-07190-6 ( Review by Norbert Seitz: Three Generations “World Citizens” ; in: Frankfurter Rundschau, edition of June 1, 2005.)
• Family history articles (in Hungarian)

Web links

• Information on the pronunciation of the family name

Individual evidence

1. ^ Welt am Sonntag , August 13, 2006