Siegfried and Fanny crossing the Atlantic 1935
Their three daughters
Dr Siegfried J. Thannhauser
Oma
(Fanny Reiner Thannhauser)
Oma's parents' marriage
Semele Steinhardt
Langermann
ENGEL - GUGENHEIMER - LANGERMANN - STEINHARDT - THANNHAUSER
Read German-Jewish Naming Practices by our cousin Herbert Kaufmann
This site has a list of individuals with full genealogical information in combined MASTER DATABASE for the families Thannhauser, Munson, Larkin, Lee, Fessenden. I have also contributed this data to the world family tree at
Siegfried J. Thannhauser was born in 1885 in Munich, the only child of a very wealthy Jewish family. He went into medicine, rather than commerce like his ancestors. He got two doctorates, one in Medicine and one in Chemistry. He was successful in both his private practice and as a professor of Internal Medicine at the University in Freiburg im Breisgau . He believed strongly in combining practicing, researching, and teaching.
He married a very pretty, intelligent Catholic woman, Francesca Reiner, after a nine year courtship (neither family approved and WWI intervened where he worked as a doctor at the front). They met at the Automobile Club ball in 1909 of which she was made Queen. At 50, due to Hitler's policies causing his dismissal for being Jewish and Fanny's urging, he moved with his family across the Atlantic to Boston to take a post at the Tufts Medical School.
He is known for his work on lipids , diabetes, and gout. His authoritative book on Metabolism was required reading in German medical schools for many years. His well-known book, in English, Lipidosis, Diseases of the Cellular Lipid Metabolism , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1950, is still available used. His many articles and research are still cited even on the net.
A biography of his life was written for the Falk Foundatation , Siegfried Thannhauser (1885-1962) Physician and Scientist in Turbulant Times by Alan F. Hofmann and Nepomuk Zöllner. The Falk Foundation presents the Thannhauser-Medal and Thannhauser-Prize alternately every two years in his honor.
There is also a chapter about him in the book, The Jewish Doctor : A Narrative History by Michael Nevins, M.D.
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THANNHAUSER
- The Origin of the Name Thannhauser (see also German-Jewish Naming Practices by our cousin Herbert Kaufmann)
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Descendants of Samson (Isaac?)
of Thannhausen (b: around 1690? d: 1752) and later Moenchsdeggingen, Swabia in
outline form with some history.
- Descendants of Baruch Loeb (Samson)Thannhauser (b: October 27, 1782) of Moenchsdeggingen in outline form with some history and pictures.
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Ancestors and descendants of
Stasi
,
Trudi
, and
Gretchen
Thannhauser - also as a
large
or
smaller
pictorial format tree
- Ancestors of Siegfried Joseph Thannhauser of Munich, Frieburg, and Boston
- Thannhauser graves in the Munich Old Jewish Cemetery
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LANGERMANN
- Langermann Portrait Gallery viewed as the ancestors of Siegfried J. Thannhauser and Bella Thannhauser Wirtz
- Descendants of Joel Löw Langerman (b: 1760) of Floss, Oberpfalz in outline form with some history and pictures.
- Langermann graves in the Floss Jewish Cemetery
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GUGENHEIMER
- Descendants of the Regensburg Gugenheimers in outline form with some history and photos.
- Gugenheimer Family record from the Regensburg old state archives.
- Gugenheimer graves in the Regensburg Cemetery
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ENGEL
- Family lore, Portraits, and Documents for the Joseph Engel's family
STEINHARDT- Our STEINHARDT ancestor is Isaak STEINHARDT (1754-1840) of Floss, Bavaria. Of all our ancestors, he has the most descendants interested in genealogy since I have heard from around twenty of them since creating this website. He was very successful as a merchant of goods like wool/leather/cloth. In a listing made in 1799 he is the 2nd richest man in the community. I have made a website to commemorate the Jewish community of Floss on the Jewishgen website.
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