Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( born December 10, 1776 in Berlin, † November 19, 1835 ibid ) belongs to the German - Jewish family Mendelssohn. He headed 1804-1821 along with his brother Joseph, the bank founded by Mendelssohn and this was as much as this one of the founding members of the Society of Friends.

His parents were the merchant and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and Fromet Gugenheim. When Abraham Mendelssohn, he was trained in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century in the banking house Fould & Co. For a stay in Berlin, he met his future wife, Lea Salomon know who gave birth to him after the wedding on December 26, 1804 four children. After the young family had first lived in Hamburg, she moved, enforced by the French annexation of the Hanseatic City, in 1811 moved to Berlin. His children he raised Christian and converted his wife finally in 1822 even to Protestantism. He took the name Bartholdy.

Two of the four children Mendelssohn became famous as a musician: His first daughter, Fanny, who married the painter Wilhelm Hensel, was also a famous composer such as their world-renowned, 1809 -born brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His son Paul, who was also musically gifted, on the other hand joined the family bank, where he has been senior partner since 1871.

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy died in 1835 at the age of 58 years. His grave is located on the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin -Kreuzberg. He is there at the side of his wife Lea. The final resting place of the two is a grave of honor of the State of Berlin.