Mendelssohn (surname)

The Yiddish-language surname מענדעלסאן is transliterated to English as Mendelssohn, Mendelsson, Mandelson (surname), or Mendelson. It is a common Polish/German Jewish surname. The variant spellings are used interchangeably, often even within a single family.

The name means son of Mendel ("Mendel's son"), or son of Menachem, as Mendel is a Yiddish diminutive of the Hebrew given name Menahem. Menachem itself means "consoling" or "one who consoles." It may be spelled Mendelssohn, Mendelsohn or Mendelson.

People

Mendelssohn

• Mendelssohn family
  • Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany, and his descendants:
  • Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, father of Fanny and Felix
  • Dorothea Mendelssohn (1763–1839), daughter of Moses, married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich von Schlegel
  • Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham
  • Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham
  • Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co.
  • Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), chemist, son of Felix
  • Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811–1858), daughter of Abraham, married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
  • Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), son of Nathan, German composer and music teacher
• Anna Mendelssohn (1948–2009), British political activist and poet
• Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951), American TV writer
• Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), American author and classics scholar
• Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1911–1952), British band leader
• George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
• Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), German building tycoon
• Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), German-born British medical physicist

Mendelsohn

• Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
• Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Prussian architect
• Fred Mendelsohn (1917–2000), US promoter of black gospel music, president of Savoy Records
• Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born 1966), British lobbyist and Labour political organiser
• Matthew Mendelsohn (birthdate unknown), Canadian civil servant
• Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), Canadian mathematician
• Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971), British advertising executive
• Robert S. Mendelsohn (1926–1988), pediatrician and critic of medical paternalism

Mendelson

• Elliott Mendelson, an American logician, famous for Mendelson axiom schemata for Propositional Logic
• Paul Mendelson, scriptwriter for television, film and radio
• Curtis Lester Mendelson, who first described the pneumonia called Mendelson's syndrome

See also

• Mendelssohn (disambiguation)