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Ehrenberg family

 Family

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4584 / MF 914
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence among members of the Ehrenberg and Rosenzweig families, including let-ters from Franz Rosenzweig, Adam Rosenzweig, Philipp and Richard Ehrenberg, as well as with other parties, including Rudolph von Jhering, Betty Mauthner, Claire von Gluemer, Jacob Freudenthal and, in copies only, Leopold and Adelheid Zunz and Heinrich Heine. Also included are engagement contracts, marriage banns, school curricula and certificates, character refer-ences, eulogies, family histories, and other documents concerning family members. This material also reflects much of the history of the Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel of which members of the Ehrenberg family were principals.

Dates: 1772-1930

Franz Rosenzweig Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3001
Abstract

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), philosopher and theologian, belonged to the important personalities of the German Jewish intellectual life after the First World War. Franz Rosenzweig started the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus, where he tried to teach Jewish tradition and culture as part of real life experience and in this way bring it closer to assimilated German Jewry. He wrote several philosophical works and translated the Hebrew Bible with Martin Buber. The Franz Rosenzweig collection contains manuscripts of many of Franz Rosenzweig’s smaller works, some of his personal items, and correspondence with his parents and with more than fifty of his friends and colleagues. The collection contains other correspondence, and a great number of newspaper clippings, photographs, and some objects.

Dates: 1832-1999

Isaak Marcus Jost Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4294
Abstract

This collection comprises a huge amount of letters that the German-Jewish historian Isaak Markus Jost sent to his former teacher and good friend Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg and his son Philipp Ehrenberg. Prominent issues are education, politics and intellectual life in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.

Dates: 1815-1860

Martin G. Goldner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3136
Abstract

The Martin G. Goldner Collection holds materials amassed by this amateur historian in pursuit of his and his wife’s genealogy, thus interrelating five families: the Goldners, the Ehrenbergs, the Fischels, the Rosenzweigs, and the Baumanns. The most noteworthy materials belong to the Ehrenbergs and their Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel, as well as to the Fischels and Rosenzweigs. Documents include correspondence, photographs, original manuscripts and other archival materials.

Dates: 1822-1986; Majority of material found within 1840s-1890s, 1970s

Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4025
Abstract

The Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg Collection contains correspondence in personal matters, a biographical manuscript and various documents concerning the family history.

Dates: 1763-1881; Majority of material found within 1806-1855

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Subject
Correspondence 4
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) 3
Wolfenbüttel (Germany) 3
Genealogical tables 2
Jewish teachers 2