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My ancestors

Abraham Adolf Fraenkel

pp. 1-35

Most people have eight great-grandparents, namely, the parents of their four grandparents. While that is the case for my parents, wife, children, and grandchildren, my siblings and I have only six great-grandparents. My father's father, Wilhelm Fraenkel, and my mother's mother, Rosa Neuburger, née Fraenkel, were siblings, so their parents, Abraham and Nanette Fraenkel, count twice. Indeed, the oil-painting portraits I have of them [see below] show a remarkable resemblance to two of my own children.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30847-0_1

Full citation:

Fraenkel, A.A. (2016). My ancestors, in Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 1-35.

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