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Family History Explained (Extract): 19th Century
by Oskar Fuhlrott

Fuhlrott and the "Neanderthaler"
Neanderthaler
Skull of the "Neanderthaler"
In the Neander valley (German "Neandertal", or "Neanderthal" by the old spelling) near Düsseldorf, in 1856 strangely formed human-like bone remains had been found. While experts believed them to be deformed by an illness at first, the teacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott recognized them as remains of a pre-historic human. This "Neanderthaler" discoverer, later on professor, founder of paleo­archeology, and also eminent by other scientific research work, is related to my grandfather (und thus to the Fuhlrott descendants) even via two paths:

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? Schneegans
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Johann Michael Nußbaum
1705?–1768
Georg Wilhelm Fuhlrott
1701–?
    aelig     aelig     aelig
? *Fuhlrott?
?–?
Anna Margerethe *Fuhlrodt
1712–1781
Maria Magdalena *Bender
1710–1787
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Johannes Heinrich Schneegans1
1716?–1814
Johannes Heinrich Nußbaum
1740–1813
  Georg Joseph Fuhlrott
1736–1775
Johannes Heinrich Fuhlrott
1741–1800
Anton Joseph Fuhlrott
1745–1808
    aelig     aelig       aelig     aelig     aelig
Anna Margerethe *Montag2
1736–1784
Anna Elisabeth *Schneider
1744–1821
  Maria Elisabeth *Reinicke
?–?
Anna Maria Theresia *Heimbrodt
1752–1827
Anna Catharina *Schneider
1752–1806
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Joseph Edmund Schneegans
1762–1812
Johannes Friedrich Nußbaum
1769–1842
| Philipp Fuhlrott
1764–1813
Heinrich Fuhlrott2
1780–1839
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    aelig     aelig |     aelig     aelig |
Maria Dorothea *Kuchenbuch
1763–1842
Angela Maria Josepha *Leineweber
1771–1810
  |_ Magdalena *Nußbaum
1773–1812
Catharina *Fuhlrott
1792–1853
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Johannes Heinrich Schneegans2
1801–1854
| Prof. Dr. (Johann) Carl Fuhlrott
1803(1804?)–1877
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Josepha *Nußbaum
1805–1873
_|   Amalie Kellner
1809(1812?)–1850
| Bernard Fuhlrott
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| Bernhard Fuhlrott
1833–1911
    aelig
  |_ __ __ __ Katharina *Schneegans
1832–1901
Katharina *Fildhaut
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HJFuhlrott
 
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(Hermann) Johannes Fuhlrott
1865–1941
aelig Klara *Fildhaut
Klara *Fildhaut
1880–1972
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• via his mother (Magdalena *Nußbaum, a daughter of my great-great-great-great-grandparents from the line Nußbaum-Schneegans), and
• via his grandfather on his father's side (Joseph Fuhlrott, a brother of two of my great-great-great-grandfathers from the Fuhlrott descent line).
Carl's book
Carl Fuhlrott: "Jussieu's und de Candolle's natürliche Pflanzen-Systeme, nach ihren Grundsätzen entwickelt und mit den Pflanzen-Familien von Agardh, Batsch und Linné, so wie mit dem Linné'schen Sexual-System verglichen". Bonn, 1829. ("Jussieu's and de Candolle's natural plant systems, developed by their principles and compared to the plant families of Agardh, Batsch and Linné, as well as to Linné's sexual system" )

Offered by an American Internet book seller, antiquarian, second-hand at $ 295 (in 2003).

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