Her name wasAdriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek, but her father named her Mercedes
Jellinek named a special car made for him after the name of his 10 year old daughter, what was her name?
MERCEDES
If you mean, who was the first Mercedies automobile named after, it was Mercédès Jellinek daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek
The symbol for Mercedes cars (the daughter was named Mercedes)
Mercedes
Mercedes
She died at the age of 39 in 1929 from tuberculosis.
Emil Jellinek was born in 1853.
Emil Jellinek died in 1918.
The Mercedes portion of the brand Mercedes-Benz comes from Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft board member Emil Jellinek. Ironically, Mercédès had no interest in automobiles.
The Mercedes brand name came from the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG). The first car with this name was the Mercedes 35 hp racing car in 1900, after the death Gottlieb Daimler. It was built by Wilhelm Maybach to a design from Emil Jellinek, who named it after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek.
Daimler Benz is most famous for his construction of the first internal combustion engine developed 1900. He designed an engine built at Daimler Motoren following the specifications of Emil Jellinek. Dimler died in 1900 and so the engine was to be named Daimler-Mercedes after his daughter. In 1902 automobiles with that engine were put into production by DMG