Valentin Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.
Family histories, family trees, and correspondence with individuals about genealogy, including Bernhard Brilling and Jacob Jacobson.
Dates
- 1677-2002
Creator
- Valentin family (Family)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German, Hebrew.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Collection is microfilmed - MF 570 - except for Addenda 2 and 3.
Memoir of Samuel Liepman-Lowen [C. I. 9] is microfilmed, use MM 104.
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
The Valentins were a Berlin family whose ancestors settled there in the seventeenth century.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Abstract
Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.
Other Finding Aid
17-page inventory.
Microfilm
Collection is available on 2 reels of microfilm (MF 570).
- Reel 1: AR 3818; Addenda 1-AR 3822; E IV
- Reel 2: AR 3824, G I - AR 3818-3823
Separated Material
Photographs have been removed to the LBI Photograph Collection.
Removed to the LBI Memoir Collection: Memoir of banker Samuel Liepman-Loewen (ME 762), handwritten in 1824, 22 pages.
- Abraham family
- Abraham, Jacob, 1723-1800
- Abramson, Abraham, 1754-1811
- Architecture
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Autograph albums
- Baeyer family
- Bankers
- Banks and banking
- Behrend family
- Berlin (Germany)
- Brilling, Bernhard
- Citizenship
- Domestic life -- 19th century
- Domestic life -- 20th century
- Economic history
- Floersheim, Ernst
- Freight movers
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Jacob & Valentin
- Jacobson, Jacob, 1888-
- Jewish community centers
- Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1800-1933
- Lassar, Sigmund
- Loewen family
- Loewen, Samuel Liepmann
- Mannheimer family
- Marriage
- Medalists
- Medals
- Merchants
- Military service; before 1871
- Netherlands
- Physicians
- Prayer books
- Reform Judaism
- Schutzbriefe (letters of protection)
- Schutzjuden -- Protected Jews
- Stern family
- Valentin family
- Valentin, Bruno, 1885-
- Valentin, G. (Gabriel), 1810-1883
- Vital statistics records
- Wills
- Title
- Guide to the Valentin Family Collection, 1677-2002 AR 3818 / MF 570
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- 2010-12-17 : encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl
- 2012-03-22: TRM: Removed references to Art and Objects materials in "Separated Materials" note (these items pertain to a different collection), added links to memoirs and photographs
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
