Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz
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Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz (born 1 May 1863 in Ghent
- died 5 May 1933 in Berlin), was a German lawyer
, heraldist and genealogist who popularized a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.
Stephan was the son of the prominent chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
, descended from a Czech noble
family from Bohemia
, and his Belgian wife Stéphanie Drory.
In 1898 Kekulé von Stradonitz published his interpretation of Eytzinger
's and Sosa
's method in his Ahnentafel-Atlas. Ahnentafeln zu 32 Ahnen der Regenten Europas und ihrer Gemahlinnen, Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1898–1904, containing 79 charts of the sovereigns of Europe and their wives. This method became the most common method of numbering ancestors and is known as the Sosa–Stradonitz Method or Ahnentafel
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Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
- died 5 May 1933 in Berlin), was a German lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
, heraldist and genealogist who popularized a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.
Stephan was the son of the prominent chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekule was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry...
, descended from a Czech noble
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
family from Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
, and his Belgian wife Stéphanie Drory.
In 1898 Kekulé von Stradonitz published his interpretation of Eytzinger
Michael Eytzinger
Michaël Eytzinger , was an Austrian nobleman, diplomat, historian, and publicist, who first published the principles of a genealogical numbering system of ancestors.The first Ahnentafel was published in 1590 by Michaël Eytzinger in his Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa...
's and Sosa
Jeronimo de Sosa
Jerónimo de Sosa also known as Hieronymus, Jerome or Geronimo de Sosa, was a 17th century Spanish Franciscan friar and a genealogist who developed a genealogical numbering system of ancestors....
's method in his Ahnentafel-Atlas. Ahnentafeln zu 32 Ahnen der Regenten Europas und ihrer Gemahlinnen, Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1898–1904, containing 79 charts of the sovereigns of Europe and their wives. This method became the most common method of numbering ancestors and is known as the Sosa–Stradonitz Method or Ahnentafel
Ahnentafel
An ahnentafel or ahnenreihe is a genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent...
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