Fanny von Arnstein

Dame Frances " Fanny " von Arnstein ( born November 29, 1758 in Berlin, † June 8, 1818 in Vienna) was a Viennese salonière and Society lady.

Life

Fanny Arnstein, born Vögele Izzy, came from a wealthy Jewish family - her father Daniel Izzy (1723-1799) was court factor of Friedrich Wilhelm II - and therefore enjoyed a comprehensive education. Through her ​​marriage to Nathan Adam von Arnstein, grandson of the imperial court factor Isaak Arnstein, in 1776 she came to Vienna and could not afford the first Viennese Jew who run their own literary salons in the sense of enlightenment. Your Palais of Arnstein was at the Hoher Markt in the first district of Vienna. Especially during the Congress of Vienna met in the home Arnstein prominent representatives from diplomacy, science, art and journalism. In addition, Fanny von Arnstein was a co-founder of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was her great-nephew, Sara Levy her sister.

Fanny von Arnstein was very politically engaged. With her husband she supported the Tyrolean popular uprising against Napoleon.

Fanny von Arnstein it was, which established in 1814 the first historically attested Christmas in Vienna - a tradition which they had brought from Berlin:

She was buried in the Jewish Cemetery Waehring. Your bones, as well as from several other graves were dug up by the Nazis and allegedly transferred for " scientific purposes " the Natural History Museum in Vienna. After that their trace is lost. Attempts to locate them, to supply them to the cemetery again, fail to this day refused the Museum of Natural History assistance.

Her daughter, Henriette von Pereira - Arnstein (1780-1859), was also known as a pianist in Vienna and hostess of a salon.