Metadata: Documents related to Magnus and Fürstenberg families
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution (official language):
- Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek
- Postal address:
- Box 222, SE 405 30 Gothenburg
- Phone number:
- + 46 (0)31-786 00 00
- Web address:
- https://www.ub.gu.se/en/contact-us
- Email:
- ubkansli@ub.gu.se;
- Reference number:
- H 153
- Title:
- Documents related to Magnus and Fürstenberg families
- Title (official language):
- Handlingar rörande släkterna Magnus och Fürstenberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magnus family; Fürstenberg family
- Date(s):
- 1795/1956
- Language:
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 8 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains documents, correspondence and economic documents related to members of the two Jewish families Magnus and Fürstenberg. Both families lived and worked in Gothenburg. The collection consists of eight volumes that contain documents from 1795 to 1956.
The first volume contains inventories and balance books for the company Zucker-Raffinaderie from 1807 to 1814, correspondence between Elias Magnus (1770-1850) and Henrik Wallroth, a district court judge and merchant living in the Swedish town Filipstad, from 1833 to 1842 and Elias Magnus’ geographical and statistical overview of Sweden from 1813.
The second volume contains account books for Emanuel Magnus (1803-1876) from 1864 and 1875, and Jeanna Magnus (née Warburg, 1805-1879) from 1876 to 1879, as well as an account book for Jeanna Magnus’s estate after her death in 1880.
The third volume contains books with copies of business correspondence related to Ernst Magnus (1841-1919), private notebooks from 1870 to 1905, and account books from 1895 to 1903.
The fourth volume contains verses, poems, invitation cards and marriage license related to the Magnus family, poems related to Jacob and Hanna Elliot’s silver wedding anniversary, published papers from the Henriques family meeting in Copenhagen on 26 April 1925, certificate of Levy Abraham Fürstenberg’s military duty between 1814 and 1815, parts of the minutes from a magistrate meeting in Gothenburg in 1853 concerning Pontus Fürstenberg’s application for industrial projects in the city, parts of minutes from 2 May 1853 about a business company set up between Levi Fürstenberg and Pontus Fürstenberg, business cards, verses and object catalogue related to Pontus Fürstenberg, speeches and verses related to Ingrid Mellgren-Prytz’s death in 1956, Galathea Hertz’ 90th birthday in 1927, Morris Jacobsson’s 70th birthday in 1870, Paulina Jacobsson’s death, Rachel Jacobson’s (née Magnus) death, Hanne Mannheimer’s 80th birthday, wedding of Simon Warburg and Zipora Henriques in 1795, death of Machen Warburg in 1858, death of Carl Simon Warburg in 1865, Elias S Warburg’s 70th birthday and Eva Warburg’s 70th birthday.
The fifth volume contains newspaper cuttings dating between 1879 and 1909, while the sixth, seventh and eight volumes hold correspondence and letters between 1822 and 1920. The letters are written by or sent to: Björn Björnson, family members from the Fürstenberg and Magnus families, Clara Grenzdörfer, Martin Kallmes, Carl Larsson, Karin Larsson, Philip Leman, Georg Nordensvan, Georg Pauli, Caroline Sayn Wittgenstein, Stephan Sinding, Carl Skånberg, Gabrielle Skånberg, Fredrik Wachtmeister, Eva Warburg, Karl Warburg, Karl Wåhlin, Lars Wåhlin, Josefina Zetterberg, Hugo Birger, Per Hasselberg, Alfred Nyström, Sofia Knorring and Henriette Nissen-Saloman.
- Archival history:
- The archival collection was donated to Gothenburg University Library in 1961 and 1963 by Erik Magnus.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection is related to the two Jewish families Magnus and Fürstenberg, whose family members both lived and worked in Gothenburg, the second biggest city in Sweden. Both families were two of the most renowned and well-known merchant families in Gothenburg, and were important donors in the city. The most famous individuals from the families are Göthilda Fürstenberg (née Magnus, 1837-1901)) and her husband Pontus Fürstenberg (1827-1902). The Magnus family arrived to Sweden from Strelitz in Mecklenburg and Elias Magnus was one of the first Jews invited to live in Marstrand, outside of Gothenburg, in 1775. Elias Magnus and his descendants were merchants, entrepreneurs and bankers in Gothenburg and Stockholm, as well as art collectors and philanthropists. Pontus Fürstenberg’s grandfather Abraham Levin had arrived in Sweden from Germany at the beginning of the 19th century, taking the name of the German hometown, and his descendants owned textile factories and weaving mills.
- Access points: locations:
- Sweden
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Trade and commerce
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman