Albert David Abraham Jaffe

1842 - 1920  (78 years)

• Name	Albert David Abraham Jaffe
  Born	21 Aug 1842	Hamburg, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Became a wealthy man in the linen business Albert Jaffe, the second son of Isaac, owned one of the most extensive collections of miniature paintings in the world. I own an illustrated catalog of this collection. The collection was loaned to a museum, and I believe disappeared during World War I. It would be interesting to learn where the miniature paintings ended up. We also have a memoir written by Albert, with a pseudonym, recounting among other things his many affairs. The Albert Jaffe memoir is of ordinary book size, and accordingly cannot be easily copied or faxed. It is not in my "Jaffe File" box and as mentioned earlier I believe is presently in the hands of either my brother or my sister. But as it happens I think there is rather little of family interest, and since he used a non-Jewish name as a pseudonym he seems to have sought to downplay his Jewish identity (his wife Clara, incidentally, was not Jewish). If it was of interest to you I suppose it would be possible to zerox and transmit by fax the several pages of introduction Albert Jaffe wrote for the Miniature Art collection catalog. I believe his nephew George - the physicist who worked with Marie Curie early in his career, and whom I met in his old age - was Albert's executor.  [1]
  Hebrew Birth	15 Elu 5602
  Hebrew Death	19 Kis 5681
  Occupation	Linen business
  Residence	Hamburg, Germany
  Residence	Leipzig, Germany
  Died	30 Nov 1920	Leipzig, Germany
  Person ID	I5239	Blank Family
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Isaac Joseph Jaffe,   b. 18 Jul 1806, Schwerin, Germany ,   d. 16 Apr 1890, Hamburg, Germany  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Pauline Goldschmidt,   b. 14 Jun 1819, Hamburg, Germany ,   d. 8 May 1854, Hamburg, Germany  (Age 34 years)
  Married	5 Jul 1840	Hamburg, Germany
  Family ID	F1458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Clara Borchard,   b. 26 Nov 1844, Hamburg, Germany ,   d. 18 Nov 1901  (Age 56 years)
  Married	22 Sep 1868	Hamburg, Germany
  Family ID	F157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 21 Aug 1842 - Hamburg, Germany Married - 22 Sep 1868 - Hamburg, Germany Residence - - Hamburg, Germany Residence - - Leipzig, Germany Died - 30 Nov 1920 - Leipzig, Germany  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Albert-Jaffe-abt-1880

  
  

  Documents

  Miniature Art Catalog by Albert Jaffe

  
  

• Sources

  [S157] E-mail message, from David Friedrichs.