Jugenderinnerungen I

A vivid description of Conrad Rosenberg's youth and the history of the descendants of his father’s family, beginning in the year 1765 from their time in Western Prussia to their move to Berlin, attaining of Prussian citizenship in 1833 and adaption of the Rosenberg name by decree in 1812. His father had good contacts to the painters Makart and Vereshchagin whose pictures he helped exhibit. The Byks were Rosenberg’s relations from his mother side and originated from Galizia mainly Brody. Later on (1859) they moved to Leipzig where his mother was born. Rosenberg’s grandfather S. A. (Samuel Alexander) Byk is known as an autodidactic author of works on Greek Philosophy, mainly the Pre-Socratic Philosophy of the Greeks (500 pages), which still can be found today. He gives a summary about Platonism and other Greek world views, and his grandfather’s Talmudic background. Curt was born 25th of May 1876 in Berlin as youngest of four children (two brothers and one sister) into an affluent Jewish middle class family. The recollections of Clara Byk describe the life of Jews in the East in the 19th century in the town of Brody, a small Jewish town on the Russian-Polish border.