Martha Bernays
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Martha Bernays was the wife of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
.
Bernays was the second daughter of Emmeline and Berman Bernays. Her paternal grandfather Isaac Bernays
was a Chief Rabbi of Hamburg
. Sigmund Freud
and Bernays met in April 1882, and after a four year engagement (1882-1886), they got married on 14 September 1886 in Hamburg
.
Freud and Bernays’s love letters sent during the engagement years, according to Freud's official biographer Ernest Jones
, who read all the letters "would be a not unworthy contribution to the great love literature of the world". Freud and Bernays had six children
: Mathilde (b. 1887), Jean-Martin (b. 1889), Oliver (b. 1891), Ernst
(b. 1892), Sophie (b. 1893), and Anna
(b. 1895). Bernays’s younger sister, Minna Bernays, is known to be one of Sigmund’s friends. She is also speculated to have been Freud's mistress. This claim was controversial at first but the publication of a hotel log has prompted some Freud scholars, including his defender Peter Gay, to regard the conjecture of Freud and Minna having an affair as probably accurate.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
.
Bernays was the second daughter of Emmeline and Berman Bernays. Her paternal grandfather Isaac Bernays
Isaac Bernays
thumbIsaac Bernays was chief rabbi in Hamburg.-Life:Bernays was born in Mainz. He was the son of Jacob Gera, a boarding house keeper at Mainz, and an elder brother of Adolphus Bernays...
was a Chief Rabbi of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
and Bernays met in April 1882, and after a four year engagement (1882-1886), they got married on 14 September 1886 in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
.
Freud and Bernays’s love letters sent during the engagement years, according to Freud's official biographer Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones
Alfred Ernest Jones was a British neurologist and psychoanalyst, and Sigmund Freud’s official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world where, as President of both the British Psycho-Analytical...
, who read all the letters "would be a not unworthy contribution to the great love literature of the world". Freud and Bernays had six children
Freud family
The family of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, lived in Austria and Germany until the 1930s before emigrating to England, Canada and the United States...
: Mathilde (b. 1887), Jean-Martin (b. 1889), Oliver (b. 1891), Ernst
Ernst Ludwig Freud
Ernst Ludwig Freud was an Austrian architect and the youngest son of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his German-born wife Martha Bernays....
(b. 1892), Sophie (b. 1893), and Anna
Anna Freud
Anna Freud was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis...
(b. 1895). Bernays’s younger sister, Minna Bernays, is known to be one of Sigmund’s friends. She is also speculated to have been Freud's mistress. This claim was controversial at first but the publication of a hotel log has prompted some Freud scholars, including his defender Peter Gay, to regard the conjecture of Freud and Minna having an affair as probably accurate.