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Note: virtual Judaica "..Figdor, an abbreviation of Avigdor, the name of the founder of the family who lived in the small town of Kittsee (Kopčany /Köpcsény), Austria after which he came to be called.." AND mek.oszk.hu
"Figdor-Kittseer, the famous Hungarian Jewish family, which originates from Köpcsény (Kittsee), near Bratislava (Presburg, Pozsony), Slovakia and the name Figdor from Avigdor who lived in Köpcsény at the beginning of the XVIIIth century. Son of Avigdor, Jakab (Jacob) was a Jewish-Judge in the then substantial Jewish community of Köpcsény. His son Izsák (Isaac) (1768-850) founded the firm Figdor & Sohn in Vienna. Son of Izsák (Isaac) Wühelm took part in the religious and charitable life of the Viennese Jewish community. His son Gusztáv below, became a Christian and supported literary and artistic endeavours. He was a friend of Grillparzer and played a role as a town councillor of the city of Vienna. His daughter, Emilia, is the wife of Mihály (Michael) Hainisch below the president of the Austrian Republic. She was an extremely well educated and noble-minded lady, who had never hidden her Jewish origins. The pictures of her Jewish ancestors still adorn the walls of her salon. The second son of Avigdor was Sámuel below His son Mihály (Michel Kittseer), who was a great scholar of the Talmud and a great benefactor, was much respected in Bratislava. In 1845 he published his work ‘Salme nedovó o.’. He and his father-in-law, Theben Mendel, republished his book ‘Széfet hajósor lerábcnu Tám c.’. And his son Viktor paid for the publication of the new, beautiful edition of ‘Akedosz Jicchok’. Ignaz Figdor’s second grandson, the world famous art expert Albert Figdor below was the owner of the “Figdor Collection”. Wilhelm Figdor’s grandson, Károly Wittgenstein below, was the founder of the Austrian metal industry and his son Pál was a famous pianist. His son, Lajos, was a writer. All the Wittgensteins are Christians. (V. ö. Mayer, "Die Wiener Juden" <Jewish forum> (New-York 1925); Wachstein: "Statuten für das Bethaus". B. S." OR see Figdor's in book Wittgenstein in Vienna
Note: Regina Figdor had to go back to Kittsee in 1818, as her son Isaak took over from her the "Duldung", to be toleriert in Vienna (allowed to reside in Vienna) and Isaak had to take over the business of dealing with Wool. Isaak made long journies all over the countries of the k.k. Monarchy, also to U.K. and the Netherlandes for knotting networks for his company "I. Figdor & Söhne". In December 1833 the company "Figdor & Söhne" in the District Landstraße of Vienna emplyed 120 people, mentioned in "Wiener Zeitung" on Apr 4, 1834
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Franziska Fanny Christiane FIGDOR Born: Apr 7, 1814 in Kittsee, Austria. Died: Oct 21, 1890 in Vienna + Hermann Christian WITTGENSTEIN Born: Sep 12, 1802 in Korbach, Germany. Residence 1850: 
Vösendorf (Mödling district) Austria, 1860 moved to Vienna. Married: 1839 occupation: Moved his father's business to Gohlis at the end of the 1830s, in Vienna involved in Furniture industry and was financially extremely successful. Died: 1878 in Vienna *they had 11 children - all forbidden to marry Jews Siblings: Moses Meier Wittgenstein took the name of hi his employers the Sayn-Wittgensteins Father: Moses Meier Meyer
(from Bad Laasphe principality of Wittgenstein, Germany res. bef 1802 Korbach) Jewish land agent, owned a dry goods store who in 1808 took the name of his birthplace and thereafter was known as Moses Meyer-Wittgenstein
Mother: Brendel (Breindl Bernhardine) Simon *wikipedia-1, wikipedia-2
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Heinz WITTGENSTEIN + Birgit GROSSMANN-WITTGENSTEIN Born: abt 1911 Died: abt 1980 Siblings: Maya Grossmann-Unna (1909 -) Father: Stefan Grossmann (1875 Viena - 1934 Vienna) Mother: Ester Strömberg (1873 - 1944 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) Grandfather: Leopold Grossmann Grandmother: Sophie Brummel
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Austria NFP +
Leopoldine "Poldy" KALLMUS /KALMUS Born: Mar 4, 1850 Married: 1873 Father: Jakob Kalmus Mother: Marie Stallner
( Slovenia )
Note: wikipedia ".. In 1865, the young Karl secretly left home and sought his fortune in the U.S., with a violin as his only possession. 
There he earned a living as a musician and a waiter in bars. In 1867 he moved back home with a great deal of self confidence.
In Vienna, Karl studied at the technical university and became a draftsman and engineer. He began at a steel mill in Teplice (Teplitz), where he eventually became director in 1877, continuously expanding the business, building factories and taking over rival mines and mills, and then a few years later he became principal shareholder, and was one of the leading industrialists in 19th century Europe.."
Konrad "Kurt" WITTGENSTEIN
Born: May 1, 1878 in Vienna. occupation: Rittmeisters der reserve im k.k. reit. Schutzer-Regiment Nr. 5. Died: Oct 27, 1918 in Italy buried in Vienna NFP suicide
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Note: wikipedia ".. Margaret was the subject of a famous 1905 portrait by the artist Gustav Klimt: it was sold in 1960 by her son Thomas and may now be seen in the Neue Pinakothek gallery in Munich.. In 1926, she commissioned her brother Ludwig and the architect Paul Engelmann to design and build Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna. Sold by her son Thomas in 1968, this noted building still stands today, and now houses the Bulgarian Cultural Institute. In 1940, she emigrated to the USA, but returned to Austria after the war and obtained restitution of part of her wealth which had been confiscated by the Nazis."
Note: wikipedia ".. Paul became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during WW-1. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously regarded as impossible for a five-fingered pianist. He commissioned several pieces for the left hand from prominent composers.."
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Note: wikipedia ".. Described by Bertrand Russell as "the most perfect example I have known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating," Wittgenstein inspired two of the century's principal philosophical movements, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy, though in his lifetime he published just one book review, one article, a children's dictionary, and the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) - 25,000 words of philosophical writing published when he was alive, and three million unpublished. Professional philosophers have ranked his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.."
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Fritz HAINISCH Born: abt 1891 Died: Aug 21, 1911 NFP
Josephine Pessel JOACHIM + Otto Naftali ROSENTHAL Mother: Maria Kanitz
*2nd husband of Regina Joachim: Samuel ÖSTERREICHER Born: abt 1817
*2nd husband of Johanna Joachim: Johann RECHTNITZ Born: abt 1812 in Bratislava (Presburg), Slovakia Father: Salomon Rechtnitz Mother: Babette Oppenheimer
Heinrich Henry JOACHIM Born: abt 1824 in Kittsee, Austria. Died: Jul 21, 1897 in London, U.K. + Helene Ellen Margaret SMART Born: abt 1844 in London. Died: Jan 14, 1925 Father: Thomas Smart
Christopher John Jellicoe BALFOUR Born: private + Ann Shuyler BUTLIN Father: Claude Martin Butlin
Joseph JOACHIM Born: Jun 28, 1831 in Kittsee, Austria. occupation: Famous Violist. Died: Aug 15, 1907 in Berlin, Germany
7th of 8 child
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Amalie 
SCHNEEWEISS (stage name WEISS) Born: May 10, 1839 in Marburg, Hessen, Germany. Married:
May 10, 1863 occupation: Contralto, Opera Singer who gave up her own promising career, but continued to perform in oratorios and give lieder recitals. Divorced: 1884. Died: Feb 3, 1899 in Berlin their grave *they had 6 children
Father: Franz Schneeweiss Mother: Eleonore Linder
Note: wikipedia "..Joachim Austrian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher of Hungarian and Jewish descent. He is widely regarded as a great and significantly influential violinist of the late 19th century. He spent his infancy as a member of the Kittsee Kehilla, one of Hungary's prominent 
Siebengemeinden under the protectorate of the Esterházy family.. In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanislaus Serwaczynski, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. In 1839, Joachim continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory (briefly with Miska Hauser and Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.; finally - and most significantly - with Joseph Böhm). He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein to live and study in Leipzig, where he became a protégé of Felix (see Mendelssohn family). In his début performance in the Leipzig Gewandhaus he played the Otello Fantasy by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst. The 12 year-old Joachim's 1844 performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in London (under Mendelssohn's baton) was a triumph, and helped to establish that work in the repertory. Joachim remained a favorite with the English public for the rest of his career.."
Johannes Johann JOACHIM Born: Sep 12, 1864 in Hanover, Germany. Died: abt 1949 + Else GENSEL Father: Julius Gensel Mother: Otilie Voigt
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Note: deutsche biographie
"..Figdor took over the huge Figdor property after the death of his father and his brothers, but had little interest for banking - although he one of financing the St. Gotthard railway was ziers - and laid out the inherited million in precious works of art. Soon he was the largest private collector of Europe in all areas of the craftsmen.. After Figdors death a multi-year dispute was his art he had bequeathed his niece Becker Walz. The Austrian State wanted to get the collection as a whole in Figdors Palace in Vienna, but ultimately the wishes of the heirs to auction had to accept. The auction catalog included 4713 numbers, smaller parts of the collection were made beforehand as Figdor Foundation of Viennese museums.."
*2nd husband of Henriette Landau: baron João Ferreira de SANTOS jr. Married: 1871 in Paris, France. occupation: Legation Secretary of the Portuguese Embassy in Paris, last Portuguese ambassador in St. Petersburg. Died: 1905 in Paris bur. Le Plessis-Robinson, France *no children, wikipedia Father: baron João de Santos Mother: Carolina Augusta de la Roque Ferreira *geni, Le Plessis-Robinson (near Paris), France grave built by Henriette 1876 has; Princess Capece Zurlo ( - 1926, MH 1962), Prince Bernard Capece Zurlo (1880-1940), Mileva Capece Zurlo (1921-1942), Prince Capece Zurlo (1906-1983), Bernard Figdor ( -1870), Baron Jean de Santos ( -1905), Baronne de Santos ( -1905) *The place of the cemetery of Plessis-Robinson was given by Henriette to the Community. This family have sold it domain at Plessis-Robinson in 1916 to Maurice Lewandowski , relative of source Olivier Pouzet
Note: Wittgenstein in Vienna book "..In 1859 Bernhard Figdor had a wool business at Praterstrasse 43, Ferdinand a wholesale house at #449 (by the old reckoning), Gustav did business from #527, Wilhelm from #579, Heinrich and Julius from #537..". Bernhard remained faithful to Judaism, however, were his wife and only daughter to Christianity. Both left a husband and father and moved to Paris, where she had a sizeable social life. *see Le Gaulois of April 6, 1895 p.2 where the Baroness Santos, femme de l'ancien ministre du Portugal a Saint-Petersburg a dinner in her salon in the rue Léonard de Vincy organizing and her daughter Princess Capece-Zurlo
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Note: Julius Figdor and Leopold Löwy were witnesses at the wedding of Julius (see Singer family) (7/2/1826 Kittsee - 11/27/1890 Vienna) NFP & Regina Geiringer (1826 Stupava, Slovakia m. 4/2/1850 Kittsee - 2/27/1900 Vienna) NFP daughter of Rafael Geiringer (1790 - 1847) & Fanny /Fanni Figdor totenbuch #2959 (1801 - 2/15/1873 Vienna) below
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*2nd wife of David Figdor: Charlotte WINTERNITZ Born: abt 1808 Father: Heinrich Winternitz ( from Jemnice /Jamnitz, Moravia - ) Mother: Regine (?) *2 husband of Charlotte: Jacob ABELES Born: abt 1792 widower from Schütt/Szerdahely = ?Dunajská Streda, Slovakia. Married: Oct 23, 1854 in Tejfalu (Milchdorf), Slovakia book of marriages in Pressburg, line #176
Theresia (Therese) FIGDOR Born: abt 1835 Died: Mar 6, 1890 in Vienna, Austria + Zelig Sigmund GESTETTNER Born: abt 1832 in Csorna, Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary? Married: Mar 12, 1853 in Bratislava, Slovakia book line #107.Died: Jan 29, 1892 in Vienna Father: Shlomo Gestetner (ca 1782 - 8/29/1857 Csorna) Mother: Sussana Zisel Unger (1803 - 2/9/1855 Csorna)
Note: see descendants with surnames: Lunzer, Salomonson, Trebitsch, Taussig, Buhler, Barnett, Glanger, David, Lang, Rothschild, Sebag-Montefiore, Waley-Cohen, Landau, Carr, Hodgson, Howard, Strasmore, Hermer, Cohen, Bloom, Shalit, Millar, Cramer, Knoepfelmacher, Kay, Watson, Fruchter, Murray, Skotzki, Norboit, Werth, Feibusch, Rau, Swindon, Fulton, Layton, Fallstrom, Watkins, Rudland, Ullman, Lubett, Rasmussen, Traver, Weil, Benchetrit, Ducret, Westmoreland, Rieger, Moncarz, Futter, Schoenewald, Grunwald, Messen-Jashin, Singer, Crowther, Peterson, Rausnitz, Blumka, Newgas, Silver, Honey, Krauss -- on R. Schoenberg geni site
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*2nd wife of Julius Figdor: Regine HERZ (aka. Rachel bass Krendel) Born: abt 1825 Died: Oct 30, 1872 in Vienna
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Rabbi Jehiel Michael (Mihály) ben Samuel KITTSEE /KITTSEER Born: ca. 1775 Kittsee, Austria *jewish encyclopedia Died: Sep 28, 1845 in Bratislava (Presburg), Slovakia + (?) Father: Rabbi Jacob (Theben) Mendel (aka. Kopel Teven) leader of Hungarian Jewry in the 18th century
Note: virtual Judaica: "..Hungarian talmudic scholar. His family name was originally Figdor, an abbreviation of Avigdor, the name of the founder of the family who lived in the small town of Kittsee near Pressburg, after which he came to be called. He studied under Mordecai *Banet. He was a businessman, well known for his generosity, but spent most of his time in study. His contemporary, Moses *Sofer , described him as "one of the leading notables of our community whom God has greatly blessed and filled with his bounty … despite which his preoccupation all his life has been with the Torah, business being secondary" (quoted in Shalmei Nedavah, pt. 1 (1838), 2a). Kittsee is the author of Shalmei Nedavah: part 1 (Pressburg, 1838), talmudic novellae; part 2 (ibid., 1842), novellae on the Talmud, on the Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah and Even ha-Ezer, and aggadic sayings.." AND mek.oszk.hu "..In 1845 he published his work ‘Salme nedovó o.’. He and his father-in-law, Theben Mendel, republished his book ‘Széfet hajósor lerábcnu Tám c.’."
Aron FIGDOR Born: abt 1787 from Eisenstadt, Austria. Died: Aug 14, 1869 in Eisenstadt + Franziska (?) Born: abt 1787 Died: Nov 13, 1847 in Eisenstadt
Note: any relation to Fanny Figdor (abt. 1855 - ) & Eduard Grünwald (abt. 1855 - ) "ch. Ignaz (1881 -) & Berta Eisner, Emma (1882 -), Gisela (1884 - ), Carl (1885 -), Ella (1886 -), Dr. Ludwig (1890 -) & Theresia Stoiber, Frieda (1892 -) & Julius Braun, Irma (1894 -) & Abraham David Baumann" - source TraudeTriebel OR Karl Grünwald & Stephanie Hohenberg (source Katarina Stare) ?
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Hermann FIGDOR Born: abt 1805 in Kittsee, Austria. occupation: Privatier. Died: Apr 16, 1884 #25 book Bratislava + Fani IRITZER (?) Born: 1812 in Bratislava (Pressburg), Slovakia. Died: Jun 3, 1878 #660 book Bratislava
Adolf (Abraham) FIGDOR Born: 1808 from Bratislava (Pressburg), Slovakia. Died: Jan 23, 1892 in Vienna + Amalie TREBITSCH Born: 1818 from Bratislava. Died: Oct 15, 1892 in Vienna
Lewy (Löwy) FIGDOR Born: abt 1811 from Bratislava, Slovakia. Residence 1868: Gr. Ankerg. Vienna-3, 1893: Brigittag 5, Vienna-2. Died: Aug 30, 1893 in Vienna + Nanette (Netti) BETTELHEIM Born: abt 1818 from Bratislava. Died: Nov 2, 1892 in Schiffamtsg, Vienna-2 NFP
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Michael FIGDOR Born: Jul 3, 1860 Died: Apr 25, 1942 in Vienna + Katharina POLLAK Born: Sep 5, 1868 Died: Jan 19, 1941 in Vienna
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