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Josef Hameln had nine children. My family descends from his daughter Esther. The youngest child was Chaim. One of the family's claims to fame is the memoirs of Chaim's wife Glueckel. Distraught over her husband's death, she spent her sleepless nights writing a family history, in which many family members are mentioned. The original has been lost, but a copy made by one of her children or grandchildren was discovered in an attic in Germany and published by the scholar Dr. David Kaufmann in 1896 - in the original Judeo-German [which is not the same as Yiddish]. Glueckel's book is the best source of information on Jewish life of her time.
Jente married twice. Her first husband was Salomon Gans (ca. 1620 - 1654). At the time of their betrothal, he was in Poland for religious studies, Poland being the home of the most famous scholars of his day. His father's family was already considered an old family, and very rich. When Salomon came home, his father had died, his mother remarried one of her in-laws, and the fortune was gone. Salomon found this incredible, and there followed a notorious series of legal battles in which he alleged malfeasance on the part of his stepfather. His legal fees were underwritten in part by his father-in-law, but Salomon never managed to recover much of his father's fortune. He died young. Jente then married Leffmann Behrens, also called Cohen and Hannover. When he married, he seemed like an up-and-coming young man. He became almost the most influential Jew in Germany [well, German-speaking regions; Germany as a country didn't exist until 187x] through his financing royalty.
Jente's children from her first marriage were: Suessmann Gans, Samuel Gans, Nathan Gans, Zippora Gans, Gelle Gans, and Channa Gans. Her children from her second marriage were Moses Jacob Hannover, Herz Leffmann Behrens, and Genendel Cohen.
Jente Hameln is unusual in that an incredible number of famous people can count her as an ancestor. The names below indicate her famous descendants [anyone with information on people not included is welcome to contact me!]
Under construction! I hope to be adding links steadily.
Anders, Guenther
Arnstein, Fanny von
Baeyer, Adolf von
Behrens, Herz Leffmann
Benjamin, Walter
Bernays, Edward
Bernays, Paul Isaac
Dehn, Max
Detmold, Johann Hermann
Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm
Droysen, Johann Gustav
Eskeles, Caecilie von
Fraenckel, Jonas
Freud, Anna
Freud, Lucian
Friedlaender, Eduard Julius Theodor
Friedlaender, Max Jacob
Gans, Eduard
Gans, Leo Ludwig
Gilbert, Felix
Goldschmidt, Viktor
Harrys, Carl Georg
Harrys, Hermann
Haushofer, Karl
Haymann, Franz
Heine, Heinrich
Hensel, Fanny nee Mendelssohn
Hensel, Kurt
Hensel, Paul
Heyse, Paul von
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, Rabbi
Hitzig, Elias
Hitzig, Julius Eduard
Kaulla
Kummer, Eduard Ernst
Leo, Friedrich
Lessing, Theodor
Mendelssohn, Felix
Meyer, Gotthelf Karl
Meyer, Richard Moritz
Meyer, Stefan
Nelson, Leonard
Oppert, brothers Julius, Ernst Jakob and Gustav Salomon
Oppler, Ernst
Pappenheim, Bertha
Rosenthal, Georg Baron von
Spitta, Heinrich, Karl Johann Philipp, Philipp, Friederich
Sternheim, Carl
Warburg
Wolfskehl, Karl
Wolfskehl, Paul
Famous people who married a descendant of Jente:
Arendt, Hanna
Bernays, Isaac Chacham
Benjamin, Hilde Lange
Dirichlet, Johann Gustav Pierre Lejeune
Freud, Sigmund
Friedlaender, David
Hensel, Wilhelm
Itzig, Daniel
Oppenheim, David
Oppler, Edwin
Piloty, Oscar Clemens
Schottlaender, Rudolf
Stern,William