Bernays is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolphus Bernays (1795–1864), professor of German in London; brother of Isaac Bernays and father of: **

Lewis Adolphus Bernays Lewis Adolphus Bernays (3 May 1831 – 22 August 1908) was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia. Early life Bernays was the son of Dr Adolphus Bernays (a brother of Chakam Isaac Bernays), a professor of German lang ...

(1831–1908), public servant and agricultural writer in Australia; son of Adolphus Bernays *

Edward Bernays Edward Louis Bernays ( , ; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an American theorist, considered a pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". His best-known ca ...

(1891–1995), the "father of public relations"; great-grandson of Isaac Bernays and father of: **

Anne Bernays Anne Fleischman Bernays (born September 14, 1930) is an American novelist, editor, and teacher. Life Bernays attended the Brearley School on New York City's Upper East Side, graduating in 1948. A 1952 graduate of Barnard College, she was managi ...

(born 1930), American novelist; daughter of Edward Bernays and American novelist Doris E. Fleischman *

Isaac Bernays Isaac Bernays ( , , ; 29 September 1792 – 1 May 1849) was Chief Rabbi in Hamburg. Life Bernays was born in Weisenau (now part of Mainz). He was the son of Jacob Gera, a boarding house keeper at Mainz, and an elder brother of Adolphus Bernays. ...

(1792–1849), German rabbi; brother of Adolphus Bernays and father of: **

Jakob Bernays Jacob Bernays (11 September 182426 May 1881) was a German philologist and philosophical writer. Life Jacob Bernays was born in Hamburg to Jewish parents. His father, Isaac Bernays (1792–1849) was a man of wide culture and the first orthodox Ger ...

(1824–1881), German classical linguist **

Michael Bernays Michael Bernays (27 November 183425 February 1897) was a German literary historian, and an important Goethe and Shakespeare scholar. Life He was born in Hamburg. His father, Isaac Bernays, died when he was fourteen years old. His adjustments w ...

(1834–1897), German literature historian *

Karl Ludwig Bernays Karl Ludwig Bernays (November 21, 1815 – June 22, 1876), baptized Ferdinand Cölestin Bernays and also known as Charles Louis Bernays, was a German journalist and associate of Karl Marx. Emigrating to the United States in the late 1840s, he ...

(1815–1876), Marxist journalist * Marie Bernays (1883–1939), German politician and educator *

Martha Bernays Martha Bernays ( , ; 26 July 1861 – 2 November 1951) was the wife of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Bernays was the second daughter of Emmeline and Berman Bernays. Her paternal grandfather Isaac Bernays was a Chief Rabbi of Hamburg. Ba ...

(1861–1951), wife of

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...

; granddaughter of Isaac Bernays by his son Berman *

Paul Bernays Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888 – 18 September 1977) was a Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of ...

(1888–1977), Swiss mathematician born in London; great-grandson of Isaac Bernays *

Robert Bernays Robert Hamilton Bernays (6 May 1902 – 23 January 1945) was a Liberal Party and later Liberal National politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1931 to 1945. Early life Bernays was the third son and four ...

(1902–1945), Liberal MP; great-grandson of Adolphus Bernays *

Thekla M. Bernays Thekla M. Bernays (1856 – January 30, 1931) was an American author, journalist, artist, art collector, speaker, and suffragette. Early life and family Bernays was born in Highland, Illinois, in 1856, the second child of Dr. George J. Bernays ...

(1856–1931), women's suffrage's activist, author and lecturer

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