Mendelssohn
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Mendelssohn (or Mendelsohn) can refer to several subjects:
[edit] People
Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people:
- Arnold Mendelssohn (Arnold L. Mendelssohn, Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn) (1855–1933), organist
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), composer and pianist, granddaughter of Moses, sister of Felix
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer, grandson of Moses, brother of Fanny
- Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), building tycoon
- Kurt Mendelssohn, medical physicist
- Ludwig Mendelssohn, classical scholar
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher, granfather of Felix
There are also a number of people with the variation Mendelsohn.
- Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969), Australian actor and musician
- Carol Mendelsohn, a TV writer
- Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), Prussian architect
- Ezra Mendelsohn, historian
- Matthew Mendelsohn, a Canadian university professor and public policy consultant
- Robert O. Mendelsohn, American economist
- Robert S. Mendelsohn, American physician and critic of mainstream medicine
[edit] Astronomy
- 3954 Mendelssohn, an asteroid
[edit] See also
- Mendel, Mendels