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Itzig may refer to: * The Itzig family, famous for its contribution to Jewish and German cultural history * Julius Eduard Hitzig, born Isaac Elias Itzig * Itzig, Luxembourg (Hesperingen) See also * Hitzig Hitzig is the last name of: * Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907), German brain scientist * Ferdinand Hitzig (1807–1875), German Protestant theologian * Friedrich Hitzig (1811–1881), German Jewish architect * Julius Eduard Hitzig Julius Eduard Hitzi ...

Itzig Family
Many of the thirteen children of Daniel Itzig and Miriam Wulff, and their descendants and spouses, had significant impact on both Jewish and German social and cultural (especially musical) history. Notable ones are set out below. Daniel Itzig (1723–1799) Bella Itzig (1749–1824) Married Levin Jacob Salomon. Their son Jakob Salomon (1774–1825) converted to Christianity and took the surname ''Bartholdy'', and was for a time Prussian consul in Italy. Their daughter Lea (1777–1842) married Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835; the son of Moses Mendelssohn). Lea and Abraham's children were Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn. (Jakob persuaded Abraham Mendelssohn to adopt the Bartholdy surname.) It was Bella who, "unaware of Felix's baptism", gave a manuscript of Bach's '' St. Matthew Passion'' to her grandson Felix Mendelssohn in 1824.Jeffrey S. Sposato, ''The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition'' (Oxford University Press, 2005), ...
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Julius Eduard Hitzig
Julius Eduard Hitzig (born ''Isaac Elias Itzig''; 26 March 1780 in Berlin – 26 November 1849 in Berlin) was a German author and civil servant. Born into the wealthy and influential Jewish Itzig family, he was between 1799 and 1806 a Prussian civil servant, became Criminal Counsel at the Berlin Supreme Court in 1815 and its director in 1825. In 1808 he established a publishing house and later a bookstore. Hitzig was much involved in the Berlin literary life of his period, notably in connection with the salon of Rahel Varnhagen. He was friendly with E.T.A. Hoffmann, August von Kotzebue, Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and Willibald Alexis. He was lampooned for his name change by Heinrich Heine. His works include ''"Der Neue Pitaval"'' (several volumes). See also *Itzig family Many of the thirteen children of Daniel Itzig and Miriam Wulff, and their descendants and spouses, had significant impact on both Jewish and German social and cultural (especially m ...
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Itzig, Luxembourg
Itzig () is a town in the commune of Hesperange, in southern Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan .... , the town has a population of 2,005. Hesperange Towns in Luxembourg {{Luxembourgcanton-geo-stub ...
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