Mathilde Kohn

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Mathilde Kohn (Fränkel)

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Birthplace: Oberglogau, Prussia [now Głogówek, Poland]
Death: May 24, 1935 (89)
Vienna, Austria (heart failure)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jacob Kiefer Fränkel and Johanna F Fränkel
Wife of Benedict Kohn
Mother of Frederick (Fritz) Kerry
Sister of Berta Kohn; Natalie Grünhut; Heinrich Fraenkel, Bodlaender and Wilhelm Fränkel
Half sister of Benno Bruno Fränkel, Ober Glogau; Selma Sara Austerlitz; Caroline Zerline Ledermann; Otto Fränkel; Hugo Fränkel and 1 other

Managed by: Gwyneth Potter McNeil
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About Mathilde Kohn

Mathilde is from (or lived on) the ring 21 in the Upper Silesian Beethoven's small town Oberglogau. Who might call a baroque house his Own, belonged, actually, to the "better" in the small town in the Hotzenplotz in Oberglogau in the ring. The Fränkels were respectable merchants, late industrialist and, in the end, also cultural patrons. Samuel Fränkel founded in the capital town Neustadt, directly in the Prudnik, the textiles "Fränkel-Werke", even today as state "Frotex-"Works not only the employer of the town are. Samuel Fränkel was a big cultural patron of the town, makes friends with GerSchlesischer cultural mirror 39, 2004 19 hard captains. He organized author's readings and chamber concerts, last with world-famous pianists like Raul Koczalski, Wilhelm baking house, Walter Gieseking in the Prudnik. Selma Fränkel (1855 Wroclaw 1925 Oberglogau) married into the Oberglogauer family. The concert pianist who had studied in Wroclaw and Vienna and in 1885 to Oberglogau came, been active in the Hotzenplotz as a piano pedagogue and maintained ammerkonzerte and gave charity concerts. Their most significant pupil was the composer Prof. Gerhard Strecke. As this his entrance examination in the Kgl. Academic institute of church history in Berlin had passed, the examining piano professor thought: ? You must have had very good piano lessons ? (cf Walter Kwasnik: Oberglogau as a music town, in: Music of the east, in 1969). The Filius of Selma Fränkel was a medicine professor and co-founder of the first Oberglogauer academy connection "Brasikaria" which owned big cultural influence in the town


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Mathilde Kohn's Timeline

1845
September 14, 1845
Oberglogau, Prussia [now Głogówek, Poland]
1873
May 10, 1873
Bennisch, Austria [now Horni Benešov, Severomoravsky province, Czech Republic
1935
May 24, 1935
Age 89
Vienna, Austria