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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.

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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."

People

  • 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
  • Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
  • Brandon Mendelson, American author of the book Social Media Is Bullshit
  • Carol Mendelsohn (born 1951), American TV writer
  • Curtis Lester Mendelson, who first described the pneumonia called Mendelson's syndrome
  • Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960), American author and classics scholar
  • Elliott Mendelson, an American logician, famous for Mendelson axiom schemata for Propositional Logic
  • Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), Prussian architect
  • Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1911–1952), British band leader
  • George Mendelssohn, founder of Vox Records in 1945
  • Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), German building tycoon
  • Horst Mendelsohn (1930-2013), German actor
  • Jonathan Mendelsohn, Baron Mendelsohn (born 1966), British lobbyist and Labour political organiser
  • Kurt Mendelssohn (1906–1980), German-born British medical physicist
  • Matthew Mendelsohn (birthdate unknown), Canadian civil servant
  • Robert S. Mendelsohn (1926–1988), pediatrician and critic of medical paternalism, inveighing against pediatric practice and obstetric orthodoxy
  • Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), Canadian mathematician
  • Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971), British advertising executive
  • Paul Mendelson, scriptwriter for television, film and radio

    • Companies

  • Mendelssohn & Co., a private German bank

    • Musical societies

  • Mendelssohn Club (1874), a Philadelphia choral society
  • Mendelssohn Glee Club (1866), a New York City choral society
  • Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center (1884), a Rockford, IL music organization.

    • See also:

  • Mendelson's syndrome, a form of pneumonia
  • Mendelssohn family, the family of Moses Mendelssohn (listed above with prominent members of the family)
  • MendelssohnKammerChor Berlin, a German chamber choir

    • References

    Mendelssohn (surname) Wikipedia
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