Anna Catharina Bischoff

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Anna Catharina Bischoff

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Basel City, Switzerland
Death: 1787 (67-68)
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Basel City, Switzerland (Bischoff was likely poisoned by mercury, then a common treatment for syphilis, which she may have acquired while tending to patients with the sexually transmitted disease.)
Place of Burial: Basel, Switzerland
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hans Jakob Bischoff and Margareta Augusta Burckhardt
Wife of Lucas Gernler
Mother of Anna Catharina Catharina Gernler and NN Gernler
Sister of Anna Margaretha Bischoff

Managed by: Ard van Bergen
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About Anna Catharina Bischoff

  • Födelse: 1719 - Bâle,Bâle,Suisse
  • Död: 1787 - Bâle,Bâle,Suisse
  • Föräldrar: Hans Jacob Bischoff, Margaretha Augusta Bischoff (född Burckhardt)
  • Make: M. LUCAS GERNLER
  • Barn: LUCAS GERNLEZ, JOHANN LUCAS GERNLEZ, THEODORUS GERNLER, Augusta Maria Gernlez, Anna Catharina von Pfeffel und Kriegelstein (född Gernler), Valeria Gernlez, Salome Gernler

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42805485

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/swiss-mummy-found-to-be-...

The BBC says DNA extracted from the mummy’s toe has revealed she is Anna Catharina Bischoff, a member of a prominent Basel family who died in 1787.

https://news.sky.com/story/mummy-found-under-swiss-church-is-boris-...:

Bischoff was born in 1719 into a wealthy Basel family and married a pastor before having seven children, two of whom survived to become adults.

She spent most of her life in Strasbourg but returned to Basel for her final five years.

Syphilis-ridden 18th century mummy dug up in Swiss church is relative of Boris Johnson, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/25/syphilis-ridden-18th-...

Anna Catharina had seven children, including Anna who married Christian Hubert Baron Pfeffel von Kriegelstein. Her great great grandaughter, Marie Luise von Pfeffel married Stanley Fred Williams and their daughter Irene, who Boris always referred to as ‘Granny Butter’ wed his grandfather Wilfred ‘Johnson’ Kemal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/swiss-mummy-identified-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/25/syphilis-ridden-18th-...

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Anna Catharina Bischoff's Timeline

1719
1719
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Basel City, Switzerland
1739
1739
Strasburg?
1787
1787
Age 68
Basel, Basel-Stadt, Basel City, Switzerland
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Barfuesser Church, Basel, Switzerland