Monument list for French Private Cemetery

Monument list

no.	family surname	full name	birth year	age	burial year	image name	GPR ref.	view no.	request no.	notes

1	Bendel	Franz Bendel	1833	41	1874	id: BLNFRBendel	163740	146	1	Bendel was a pianist and composerof Bohemian German (Sudeten) origin who studied under Franz Liszt for five years. He died in Boston (USA) during a concert tour.

2	Berlinguier	P.L. Berlinguier	1748	62	1810	no image	163741	81	1	Merchant

3	Chambeau	Paul Chambeau	1842	54	1896	id: BLNFRPaulChamb	163737	166	1	Died in Prenzlau in Brandenberg.
		Alma Chambeau	1857	84	1941

4	de la Croix	Anne de la Croix	1851	34	1885	id: BLNFRdelaCroix	163738	162	1
		Albert de la Croix	1839	48	1887

5	Devrient	Ludwig Devrient	1784	48	1832	id: BLNFRDevrient	163748	127	1	Descended from a French Hugenot family Devrient was intended for his fathers silk business. However in 1803 he joined a troop of actors and appeared the following year for the first time in a play by Schiller. Later he became a well-known performer in Germany France and England appearing in Shakesperean roles. His three nephews - Edward Charles-Auguste and Gustave - all became well-known Shakespearean actors.

6	du Bois-Reymond	Felix-Henri du Bois-Reymond	1782	83	1865	no image	163734	90	1	Born in the village of St Sulpice near Neufchatel in Switzerland he was an author and advisor to the Prussian Foreign Ministry
		Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond	1818	78	1896					Emil was a distinguished scientist physioogist and a pionneer of electro-physiology and became professor of physiology at the university of Berlin in 1858. An annual award named in his honour was created in 1999. His brother was the mathemitician Paul du Bois-Reymond.
		Wilhemine Julie Fran�oise du Bois-Reymond	1789	75	1864					Born in the royal city of Potsdam Wilhemine was a member of one of the oldest and most respected French Hugenot families in Berlin. Her Polish Protestant grandfather was Daniel Chodowiecki the most popular Prussian painter and engraver of the 18th century and her father was the librarian of the royal library.

7	du Titre	Marie Anne du Titre	1748	79	1827	id: BLNFRduTitre	163746	131	1	Marie Anne was the ninth of ten children of Benjamin George a wealthy Hugenot brewery owner and Sara Roberts. In 1781 she married Etienne du Titre one of the richest men in Berlin through his cotton business. They lived a sumptuous lifestyle and were amongst the leaders of Berlin society as friends of the king and acquaintances of the Goethe and the Romantic author E.T.A Hoffmann. Madame du Titre as she was known was renowned for speaking a curious mix of French and German which often gave rise to both confusion and some hilarity.

8	Gain	Armand Gain	1835	42	1877	no image	163735	114	1

9	George	Benjamin George			1823	id: BLNFRBenGeorge	163745	80	1	born 17?9 - Benjamin George was probably the brother of Marie Anne du Titre who is also buried in this cemetery.

10	Jouanne	Benjamin Edouard Jouanne	1801	61	1862	id: BLNFRJouanBen	163742	175	1	Merchant

11	Jouanne	Jean Jouanne	1752	54	1806	id: BLNFRJouanJean	163744	167	1

12	Jouanne	Sara Elizabeth Jouanne	1742	71	1813	id: BLNFRJouanSara	163743	159	1	Sara was probably a sister of Marie Anne du Titre who is also buried in this cemetery.

13	Raven�	Peter Louis Raven�	1793	68	1861	no image	163747	159	1	Raven� was a rich industrialist of French Hugenot origins who inherited the family business from his well-established father Jacob Raven� (who was also buried in the cemetery but the tomb is now destroyed). Peter developed the family interests by investing in copper mines in Anhalt which supplied the new railways. With the resulting wealth he developed an important art collection which he displayed to the public and part of which now is displayed in the Bode Museum in Berlin. He was an adept of occultism and predicted - correctly - that he would died in 1861.

14	Steffeck	Carl Steffeck	1818	72	1890	id: BLNFRCarlSteff	163739	105	1	Trained at the Berlin Academy of Arts and later in France and Italy Staffeck was principally an animal painter and watercolourist. His pupils included Max Lieberman.

15	von Hauteville	Robert Guiscard von Hauteville	1868	43	1911	id: BLNFRHauteville	163736	97	1	Robert appears to be a member of the French aristocratic family of d'Hautveille and named after his illustrious 11th century forbear who became Duke of Apulia and Calabria after the Norman invasion of Italy.

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