Bassevi

 

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   BASSEVI (about 1475 - ) & Batsheva (about 1475 - )

  1. •   Yitzchak BASSEVI (about 1500 - ) & Batsheva (about 1475 - )

  2. ‣   Joseph BASSEVI (about 1522 - )

  3. -   Abraham Basch BASSEVI (1545 - 1590)

•    Abraham Basch BASSEVI (about 1566 - 1613)

•    Samuel BASCH (about 1570 - 1613) & HOROWITZ (about 1572 - )

•    Jacob BASSEVI von Treuenberg* (1570, Verona, Italy - 2 May 1634) & Hendel GERONIM (about 1568 - 1628)(second wife)

•    Jacob BASSEVI von Treuenberg* (1570 - 2 May 1634) & UNNAMED

•    Jacob BASSEVI von Treuenberg* (1570 - 2 May 1634) & Kaudel bat Abraham (about 1570 - 1616)

  1. ‣   Ascher BASSEVI (about 1588 - 1632)

  2. ‣   BASSEVI (between 1588 and 1634 - ) & Eliyahu ETTINGER

  3. ‣   Nathan SCHMIELES* (about 1589 - 1639) & Channa LURIA (about 1593 - )

  4. ‣   Nathan SCHMIELES* (about 1589 - 1639) & LURIA

  5. ‣   Abraham BASSEVI (1590 - 1639) & Sara KOPPEL (about 1594 - )

  6. ‣   Schemaja BASSEVI (between 1590 and 1614 - 1634)

  7. ‣   Samuel (Bernstein) BASSEVI (about 1605 - 1666) & Dabarisch Lipman Ha-Levi HELLER (1612 - 19 July 1643)

  8. ‣   Freudel BASSEVI (1615 - 1624)

  9. ‣   Aharon BASSEVI* (1593 - 1648) & LURIA

  10. ‣   Aharon BASSEVI* (1593 - 1648) & Channa SALOMON (about 1613 - )

  11. -    Marcus Jakob LEVI (about 1648 - ) & Pesche (about 1668 - )

Marcus Levi moved in 1648 from the town of Lublin to Brakel, Westphalia.

  1. •   Jacob BASSEVI (after 1698 - )

  2. •   Meyer LEVI (after 1699 - )

  3. •   Abraham LEVI (1698 - between 1755 and 1756) & Fradchen

  4. ‣   Moses BASSEVI (about 1714 - ) & Mathe

  5. ‣   Israel LEVI (about 1714 - after 1740) & Esther (1710 - )

  6. -    Salomon Levi BASSEVI* (1728 - 1781) & Fradel MANSBACH (about 1737 - 1795)

  7. -    Salomon Levi BASSEVI* (1728 - 1781) & Sara SELIGMANN

  8. -    Itzig LEVY (1730 - 1818) & Rachel SELIGMANN

  9. -    Abraham Levi (between 1731 and 1735 - 1794) & Schoenchen ITZIG (1744 - 1815)

               •     Herz Levi STEINHEIM (1761 - 1851) & Edel/Adelheid WITTGENSTEIN   (1760 - 1850)

               •    Levi Salomon STEINHEIM (1767 - 1841)

               •    Levi Abraham  (1768 - 1797)

  1. ‣    Salomon Levi  =  Salomon Ludwig STEINHEIM  (1789, Bruchhausen - 1866, Zürich)

                   Famous physician, poet, philosopher.  See photo, above.

  1. ‣    Emma Levi STEINHEIM  (1795  - )

  2. ‣    Herz Levi STEINHEIM  (1797 - )

               •    Taube  & Levi STERNBERG

  1. -    Golde LEVI (1735 - ) & Salomon HERZ  Salomon Herz had three sons who took the name Hirschland. The Hirschland family can be found on THIS page.

                •   Zarle HERZ(1766 - 3 December 1813) & Salomon Joel HERZFELD 

                  The oldest child of Salomon Herz, Zarle married Salomon Joel (Salomon, son of Joel). When family names were taken, they took the name Herzfeld.

  1. ‣    Jacob HERZFELD

  2. ‣    HERZFELD

  3. ‣    Frommet HERZFELD* (15 June 1789 - 24 July 1871) & UNNAMED

  4. ‣    Frommet HERZFELD* (15 June 1789 - 24 July 1871) & Abraham WEIL

  5. ‣     Herz HERZFELD (10 January 1791 - 8 May 1870) & Braunchen ABRAHAM (4 March 1793 - 11 August 1855)

  6. ‣    Salomon HERZFELD (1806 - 14 August 1836) & Caroline MARIENTHAL ( - 4 March 1837)

                •    Herz SALOMON HIRSCHLAND (1779 - 1871) & Judith/Gutel BENDIX/LÖWENSTEIN

  1. ‣    Salomon HIRSCHLAND  (1799 - 1869)

  2. ‣    Abraham HIRSCHLAND  (1801 - 1866)

  3. ‣    Levi HIRSCHLAND  (1804 - 1863)

  4. ‣    Simon HIRSCHLAND  (1807 - 1885)

  5. Simon Hirschland founded the Simon Hirschland Bank; his son Isaac made it one of the largest banks in Germany

  6. •    Isaac HIRSCHLAND  (1845-1912)

  7. ‣    Moises HIRSCHLAND  (1810 - )

  8. ‣    Göltchen HIRSCHLAND  (30 December 1812 - )

                •    Markus Herz HIRSCHLAND  (1771 - 1844)

  1. ‣    Gellchen HIRSCHLAND  (1802 - 13 December 1878 ) & Mathias HOCHHEIMER (April 1806, Steinheim - 10 December 1883)

  2.      Gellechen or Gelle married Mathias Hochheimer in Steinheim.  Their descendants can be found on the HOCHHEIMER page, HERE.

  3. ‣    Salomon HIRSCHLAND

  4. ‣    Samuel HIRSCHLAND

                •    Jonas HerzHIRSCHLAND*  (1779 - 1871) & Jeanette (Göltchen) SILBERSTEIN (1785, Stahle - 1812, Steinheim)

                •    Jonas HIRSCHLAND*  (1779 - 1871) & Friderica (Fratchen) FALKENSTEIN (1788 - )

                •    Elicam HIRSCHLAND

                •    Ella HIRSCHLAND & KLEINSTRASS

  1. -    Joseph LEVI (1740 - 1804) & Brendel ITZIG

  2. -    Moses LEVI (between 1734 and 1760 - ) & Bela

             Moses Levi moved from Bruchhausen to the nearby town of Steinheim on 10 November,  1763. He later (1808) took the name STEINFELD.

                •    Libi LEVI (about 1780 - ) & Isaak FRENKEL

                •    Gellechen LEVI (about 1780 - ) & Leifmann Arend (KLEINSTRASS)

             Gellechen (or Gelle or Elle) apparently married Leifman Arend KLEINSTRASS, who is my ancestor, and whose descendants can be found HERE.

                •    Röschen LEVI (about 1780 - ) & DESENBERG

  1. -    Mordechai/Marcus LEVI (between 1734 and 1760 - 1805) & Blome Moses GOLDSMIT



                  


                     *People with asterisks after their names were married two or more times.  They have a separate line for each spouse.


The Bassevi family came from Italy.  Jacob Bassevi (1570 - 1634) became a highly influential “court Jew” in the courts of the Holy Roman Emperors Rudolf II, Matthias, and Ferdinand II, and was the first Jew to be made a member of the nobility, at which time he was given the title “von Treuenberg”.   He helped the Emperors finance the Thirty Years War.  He was also a leader of the Jewish Community in Prague.


Jacob’s children lived in Lublin, Poland, but his grandson, Marcus Jacob Levi moved from Lublin to the town of Brakel in Westphalia, Germany in 1648 (see MAP).  That was the year that the Thirty Years War ended.  It was also the year of massive pogroms and massacres of tens of thousands of Jews in the Ukraine and eastern Poland.  This marked a turning point for the Jews of Europe.  Before 1648 the Jews looked eastward for a safe place to live, after the massacres in the Germany of the middle ages.  After 1648 they started looking westward.  The peace which came with the end of the Thirty Years War, which had devastated Germany, and the beginning of the Enlightenment in western Europe in the mid-1600’s, made Germany and the rest of western Europe once again attractive to the Jews in the eastern countries.  It is not known what motivated Marcus Jacob Levi to move from Lublin to Brakel.  But it is quite likely that the historical factors of the pogroms in the Ukraine and Poland, together with the end of the war, contributed to his decision to head west.


Marcus Jacob Levi’s son, Abraham, moved from Brakel to the nearby town of Bruchhausen. and several of Abraham’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren married into families in another nearby town, Steinheim, including into what would become the KLEINSTRASS family, which is my family.  One of Abraham’s granddaughters married into what became the HIRSCHLAND family in Steinheim.  Within three generations that family headed one of the largest banking houses in Germany.  Based in Essen, the Simon Hirschland Bank financed many of the industries in the Ruhrgebiet (the industrial heartland of Germany), including Germany’s largest armaments company, Krupp. The Hirschland family page can be found HERE.


Another descendant of Abraham was Salomon Ludwig STEINHEIM, famous as a physician, poet, and philosopher.  The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen is named after him.


Note that this page is very incomplete.  I have only entered in a small portion of the over 1400 descendants (!) of Bassevi and Batsheva that I have a record of.  Their other descendants include British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.


Much of the information on this page comes from the book by Siegfried Porta, "Chronik der Familie Löwenstein - Porta", (Bielefeld 1922).  Thanks to Aviv Bendix in Israel for finding and entering the data and providing it to me, and to Ernst and Doris Stiefel for supplying information on the Hirschland family.  Additional data came from Fritz Ostkämper in Höxter.  A special thanks also to my friend Egmar Ruppert, for his comments and insights.


INFORMATION WANTED! I am working on updating this page. If you have information about any branch of the Bassevi family, or any of their descendants, please email me (geneo (at) thekesters.net)!!!



About the format: a person gets a new line for each time they are married.  So, for example, there were not three Jacob Bassevi von Treuenbergs, rather he was married three times.

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim

1789-1866

Isaac Hirschland

1845-1912

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Page added: Feb. 24, 2009            Last update: November 8, 2009

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