Mendelssohn

Mendels(s)o(h)n is a Polish/German Jewish family name, meaning "son of Mendel", Mendel being a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name Menahem, meaning "consoling" or "one who consoles".

Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people:

• Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham, grandson of Moses

Other descendants of Moses Mendelssohn (see also Mendelssohn family), including:

• Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, founder of Mendelssohn & Co., son of Moses
• Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham, granddaughter of Moses
• Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist, son of Felix, great-grandson of Moses
• Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), German composer and music teacher, a great-grandson of Moses

Other Mendelssohns:

• Anna Mendelssohn (1948–2009), British political activist and poet
• George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
• Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), German building tycoon
• Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), German-born British medical physicist, descendant of Moses's brother Saul Mendelssohn
• Samuel David Mendelssohn (1942–2006), German political scientist and author

Companies:

• Mendelssohn & Co., a private German bank

Musical societies:

• Mendelssohn Club (1874), a Philadelphia choral society
• Mendelssohn Glee Club (1866), a New York City choral society

There are also a number of people with the variation Mendelsohn:

• Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
• Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951), American TV writer
• Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), American author and classics scholar
• Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Prussian architect
• Matthew Mendelsohn (birthdate unknown), Canadian civil servant
• Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), Canadian mathematician
• Robert O. Mendelsohn (born 1952), American economist
• Robert S. Mendelsohn (1926–1988), American physician and critic of mainstream medicine

See also:

• Mendelson's syndrome, first described by Curtis Lester Mendelson in 1946

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