Rosenfeld family

The Rosenfeld family was a family of physicians and cantors from southern Germany. Callmann (Karl) Isaac Rosenfeld (1756-1851) originally came from Bohemia and served as a cantor in Berlichingen, Württemberg (Germany). In 1795 he married Friderike Sulzberger. They had sixteen children. Callmann Rosenfeld was an accomplished violinist and played at the coronations of several emperors in Vienna.

One son of Callmann and Friderike was Leopold Rosenfeld (1813-1880), who studied medicine in Heidelberg in the 1830s and worked as a physician in Adelsheim and Merchingen. In 1843 he married Anna (also known as Mannchen or Nani) Straus of Tauberbischofsheim. They had four children: Karl, Julius, Emma, and Gustav.

Gustav Rosenfeld (1844-1904) also studied medicine in Heidelberg and later served in the Franco-Prussian War. He established a medical practice in Stuttgart. In 1876 he married Sophie Rosenthal of Würzburg. They had three children: Fritz, Ernest and Dora, who died in childhood.

Gustav Rosenfeld's son Fritz Rosenfeld (1877-1942) studied medicine in Würzburg and Strasbourg. In 1910 he married Toni Lublinski of Berlin. He immigrated to the United States, and died in New York in June 1942. They had four children: Annemarie, Susie, Lotte and Howard.