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Avigdor (Figdor) (*ca. 1710 ‚ †1769)


Jakob/Jacob Figdor (*1742 — 1806) = Regina/Regine (Sinzheim) Figdor (*1752 — †ca. 1818)


Immediate Family


1. Isak Figdor (*ca. 1768 — †ca. October 9, 1850) = Anna (Schlesinger) Figdor (*1770 — †1833)

2. Fanny (Figdor) Joachim (*ca. 1791 — †1867) = Julius Joachim (*ca. 1791 — †1865)

3. Friedrich Joachim (*1812 — †November 26, 1882) = Regine Just

3. Josephine Pessel Joachim = (Thali Ronay) Otto Naftali Rosenthal

3. Julie Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1821— †Vienna, July 8, 1901) = Joseph Singer

3. Heinrich (Henry) Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1824 — †London, July 21, 1897) = Ellen Margaret Smart

3. Regine Joachim (*Kittsee, 1827 — †1862)

3. Johanna Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1822 — †ca. 1887) = Lajos Aranyi

3. (Georg Maria) JOSEPH JOACHIM (June 28, 1831?[1] — August 15, 1907) = Amalie (Schneeweiss) Joachim (*Maribor, Podravska, Slovenia/(Marburg, Austria), May 10, 1839 — †Berlin, February 3, 1899) Amalie_Joachim Short Biography (Beatrix Borchard, MUGI

4. Julius Johannes Hermann George Joachim (*Hanover, September 12, 1864 — †1949) = Else Ottilie Gensel

4. Giselher Bernard Hermann Joachim (*Hanover, January 24, 1866 — †August 15, 1917) = Suzanne Chaigneau (*Chailly-en-Bière, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France, June 14, 1875 — †Paris, April 13, 1946)

4. Marie Joachim (*Hanover, January 31, 1868 — †Hamburg, October, 1918)

4. Josepha Joachim (*Berlin, February 16, 1869 — †1937 or 1939) = Fritz Mayer (Fels)

4. Paul Philipp Heinrich Joachim (*Berlin, May 7, 1877 — †1933) = ? Joachim, +Bertha (Weigel) Joachim, +Elizabeth (Barth) Joachim

4. Elisabeth Anna Marie Charlotte Joachim (*Strobl, Salzburg, Austria, May 26, 1881 or June 26 1881 — †New York, NY, October 28, 1968)

3. Unknown child, mentioned in Moser Lebensbild.


Extended Family


1. Isak Figdor (*ca. 1768 — †ca. October 9, 1850) = Anna (Schlesinger) Figdor (*1770 — †1833)

2. Fanny (Figdor) Joachim (*ca. 1791 — †1867) = Julius Joachim (*ca. 1791 — †1865)

3. Friedrich Joachim (*1812 — †November 26, 1882) = Regine Just

3. Josephine Pessel Joachim = (Thali Ronay) Otto Naftali Rosenthal

3. Julie Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1821— †Vienna, July 8, 1901) = Joseph Singer

3. Heinrich (Henry) Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1824 — †London, July 21, 1897) = Ellen Margaret Smart

3. Regine Joachim (*Kittsee, 1827 — †1862)

3. Johanna Joachim (*Kittsee, ca. 1822 — †ca. 1887) = Lajos Aranyi

3. (Georg Maria) JOSEPH JOACHIM (Kittsee, June 28, 1831? [1] — Berlin, 1907) = Amalie (Schneeweiss) Joachim (*Maribor, Podravska, Slovenia/Marburg, Austria May 10, 1839 — †Berlin, February 3, 1899) Amalie_Joachim Short Biography (Beatrix Borchard, MUGI

4. Julius Johannes Hermann George Joachim (*Hanover, September 12, 1864 — †1949) = Else Ottilie Gensel

4. Giselher Bernard Hermann Joachim (*Hanover, January 24, 1866 — †August 15, 1917) = Suzanne Chaigneau (*Chailly-en-Bière, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France, June 14, 1875 — †Paris, April 13, 1946)

4. Marie Joachim (*Hanover, January 31, 1868 — †Hamburg, October, 1918)

4. Josepha Joachim (*Berlin, February 16, 1869 — †1937 or 1939) = Fritz Mayer (Fels)

4. Paul Philipp Heinrich Joachim (*Berlin, May 7, 1877 — †1933) = ? Joachim, +Bertha (Weigel) Joachim, +Elizabeth (Barth) Joachim

4. Elisabeth Anna Marie Charlotte Joachim (*Strobl, Salzburg, Austria, May 26, 1881 or June 26 1881 — †New York, NY, October 28, 1968)

3. Unknown Joachim (Mentioned in Moser’s biography)

2. Wilhelm Wolf Figdor (*Kittsee, ca. 1793 — Vienna, April 28, 1873) = Amalia Strim Figdor (*Śrem, Wielkopolskie, Polska, (*ca. 1792 — †Vienna, February 22, 1863)

3. Franziska Fanny Christiane (Figdor) Wittgenstein (*Kittsee, April 7, 1814 — †Vienna, October 21, 1890)


[1] N.B. Joachim’s birth date, now commonly accepted as June 28, 1831, has never been authenticated. Joachim himself was unsure of his birth date. For the first 23 years of his life, he believed he had been born in July — either the 15th or the 24th (Carl Ferdinand Becker, for example, in his Die Tonkünstler des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, (Leipzig, 1849, p. 82), gives Joachim’s birthdate as July 15, 1831. Joachim was living in Leipzig at the time, and was, undoubtedly, the source of this information). Joachim’s boyhood friend Edmund (Ödön) Singer (* 14 October 1831, Totis, Hungary — † 1912) also calls into question the year of Joachim’s birth. “All reference books gave 1831 as Joachim’s birth year, as well as the birth-year of my humble self. […] Joachim himself asked me one day: ‘How does it happen that we are always mentioned as having been born in the same year?  I am at least a year older than you!’ — I, myself, finally established my glorious birth-year after many years, while Joachim tacitly allowed the wrong date to persist.” [Edmund Singer, “Aus meiner Künstlerlaufbahn,” Neue Musik-Zeitung (Stuttgart), Vol. 32, No. 1, (1911), p. 8.]