Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-01
toward the Jewish race.


which has not at one time or another dur
ing the past two centuries affiliated and
intermarried with the four great princely
houses of Bragation, Davidoff, lmerietinski
and Muskranski. Each of these latter
claim to be descended in an unbroken and
direct line from the biblical Ming David,
and, like the Georgian princely family of
Guriel, are proud of their Jewish ancestry.
In Germany and Austro-Hungary many
of the grandest families in the land have
Hebrew blood in their veins, and have
marriages with Jewesses recorded in their
family archives.
Thus the wife of Prince Batthiany, who
in days gone by was famous for her mar
velous beauty, was a Jewess by birth, her
father having been a London picture dealer
of the name of Solomon Gumpel. There
is no name more illustrious nor yet more
celebrated in Hungarian history than that
of Batthiany, one of whose members was
executed amid circumstances of the great
est indignity for the prominent part which
he had taken in the Hungarian insurrec-
tion of 1s49 organized by Kossuth. Prin-
cess Lothaire Metternich is of Hebrew
parentage, and so too are couple of the
Countesses of Lynar and Limburg-Stirum.
Prince PHILIPPE Hohenlohe, asecond cousin
both of Queen Victoria and of the German
emperor, is married to the Princess Ipsi-
lanti a granddaughter of the old Baron
Sina, the Jewish banker at Vienna.
A great German-or, rather, | should
say European-family in the blood of
which the Hebraic strain is particularly
strong, is that of Saxe-Coburg, which has
intermarried with most of the reigning
houses enumerated in The Almahach de
Gotha The Jewish blood is derived main
ly from Antoinette, the daughter and heir
ess of the Hungarian Hebrew Kohary, who
married King Ferdinand of SaXe-Coburg
in the second or third decade of the present
century. One of her sons, Ferdinand by
name, became king consort of Portugal,
and as such was the grandfather of the
present king of Portugal. 1t was Dom
Ferdinand, by the bye, who, on the death
of his first wife, the Queen Regnant Maria
della Gloria, found consolation for his be-
reavement in the society Of Boston girl
Elise Hensler-whom lie subsequently mar
ried morganatically, obtaining for her on
her wedding day the title of Countess Edla.
King Carlos of Portugal is therefore un-
dubitably of Jewish descent, and so is
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, whose ia
cial features are remarkably Hebraic, and
who is a grandson of old Kohary's heiress.
a second Of the latter's grandsons, Duke
PHILIPPE of Saxe-Coburg, is married to the
eldest daughter of King Leopold Of Bel
GUM, while a third of her grandsons,
Duke Augustus, was married to the
younger daughter of the late Dom Pedro,
emperor of Brazil 1t was the eldest son
of Duke Augustus who became violently
insane the other day at Vienna and who
is now confined in IL lunatic asylum near
Gratz. One of the granddaughters of the
Kohary heiress is welded to Archduke Jo-
seph of Austria, while another has become
the wife of Duke Maximilian Of Bavaria,
the brother Of the empress OF Austria and
of the ex-queen of Naples.
Queen Victoria's favorite son-in-law,
Prince Henry of Battenberg, is the grand
son of converted Jew named Hauke, es-
tablished in Poland, and who had won his
way into the favor of the Grand Duke Con-
stantine OF Russia. Another Of Hauke's
grandsons, Prince Louis of Battenberg, is
married to Il sister of the present Grand
Duke of Hesse, while Prince Alexander Of
Battenberg achieved notoriety by doliber-
ately jifting the sister of the present en-
peror OF Germany on the very eve of the
wedding ut Windsor in order to marry the
lovely operatic divette, Mile. Loisinger.
1t is but the other day that Prince Ernest
of Saxe-Meiningen contracted u amorganatic
union with a Miss Katherine Jensen. whose
mother is Niennese Jewess. Prince Err
nests eldest brother, Bernhardt, the heir
to the sovereignty Of Sake Meiningen, is
the husband Of Princess Charlotte of Prus-
sia, the eldest sister of The Emperor Will
liam, and has no male issue.
Prince Bismarck derives his Jewish
blood from his mother, whose father, An
astasius Menken, one of the favorite bu
reaucrats of Frederick the Great, was of
Hebrew parentage. Although of late it
has evidently appeared polite to the prince
to countenance the anti-Semitic movement
both in Germany and Austria, yet while
in office he invariably showed himself a
good friend to the Jewish nation, and
chose the Hebrew banker, Baron Won
Bleichroeder, as his most trusted conf
dant. Indeed in those days he was so well
disposed toward the Jews that he even
discussed the adyisability of marrying his
sons to Jewesses, on the ground that it
would bring money into the family again,
and likewise Improve both morally and
physically the Bismarck breed"
Members of the Hebrew race are to be
found not only in the greatest families of
Germany and Austria, but also in the high
est offices Of these two countries. Thus, for
instance, Colonel Won Mossner, the aid-de.
camp of Emperor William, is a Jew both
by birth and faith, while the late president
of the supreme court of the German en-
pire, Herr Won Simpson, as we'll as the late
minister of justice. Baron Friedberg. his
successor, Baron Won Schelling, and Baron
Won Lucius, the minister Of agriculture,
were of Israelitish parentage. Colonel Won
Mossner, may add, commands the favor.
ite regiment of hussars of Emperor Viii.
liam, and was ennobled by the latter in
1890. His fathers family name was Moses.
The first Hebrew ennobled in Germany
was Jacob Loans, the physician of EN-
peror Frederick III, who reigned at the
commencement of the Fifteenth century,
Almost 100 years then elapsed before an
other Jew was ennobled in the person OF
William Schakel. Today there is hardly q
single one of the great families of the
Suabian aristocracy which does not in
clude his name among the number of its
ancestors. In 1922 Emperor Ferdinand II
of Germany conferred nobiliary rank upon
AJewish actor, whose plebeian patronymic
of Batsheba he transformed into Won Treu-
enberg The next Hebrews to be ennobled
in Germany were the Rabbi Alois Wiener,
celebrated for his oriental lore, in 1746, and
the army contractor, Abraham Wetzler,
who was created baron in TIT under
the name of Won Blankenstern. During
the present century the number of He
brews who have received nobiliary honors