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Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud (née Nathansohn; 18 August 1835 – 12 September 1930) was the mother of Sigmund Freud. She was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to Jacob Nathanson and Sarah Wilenz and later grew up in Odesa, where her mother came from (both cities located in modern-day Ukraine). She was married to Jacob Freud.
Amalia Freud was the daughter of Jacob Nathansohn (1805–1865), great-grandson of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Bernstein, [6] and Sara Wilenz born in Brody, [1] then also part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and now also part of Ukraine. They later moved to Vienna.
Sigmund Freud 's mother, Amalia Malka Freud-Nathanson, was born, according to family tradition, on August 18, 1835, in Brody, in Galicia, and died in Vienna on September 12, 1930. The daughter of Jacob Nathanson and Sara Widens, Amalia had three older brothers and one younger brother, Julius.
Jun 27, 2024 · RvM also reports short personal meetings with Freud’s mother Amalia, née Nathansohn, and with Freud’s wife Martha, née Bernays. He describes both of them as not very erudite and not well informed about Freud’s intellectual achievements.
Born in 1835, Amalia Nathanson Freud was barely twenty-one years old when her first child was born. He was named Schlomo (Sigismund) in memory of his paternal grandfather, who had died a few weeks earlier.
Freud's mother, Amalia, was possibly his father's third wife and twenty years his younger. Sigmund's half-brother, Emanuel, was older than his mother and had children of his own when Sigmund was born. Thus Sigmund was born an uncle -- a year younger than his first playmate, his nephew.
May 19, 2022 · 19 May 2022. Anna Freud, Freud’s daughter, said that her grandmother was ‘devoted to and proud of her [son], as Jewish mothers are’. The fact is that this mother, Amalia, a superstitious Galician who spoke mostly Yiddish, had predicted that her Sigmund, on whom she projected her dreams of greatness, would become a great man.
