Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
Name[Josef] Menachem/ Man b’ David Gomperz Wesel
Birthabt 1620, D, Wesel
Memoor 1607/09
Deathabt 1690, D, Wesel
Notes for [Josef] Menachem/ Man b’ David Gomperz Wesel
also named “
Man Wesel” or “
Magnus Davids”
He and some of his descendants were followers of the false Messias Sabbatai Zvi and his prophet
Nathan of Gaza. One of Menachem’s sons was (re)named after that ‘prophet’:
# Nathan b’ Menachem Wesel (b. 1650). He and his wife Chana Korff (married in 1675) converted to catholicism. He changed his name once again, into Bernardus Emmerich.
other children:
# Chaim/ Heiman/ Hayum b’ [Josef] Menachem/ Man Wesel Cleve (b. abt 1640; d. 28.9.1704)>>
[?] # Mordechai/ Marcus b’ Magnus Wesel (d. 31.10.1736 Berlin) — Shtadlan, Hofjude (since 1709) “Mordechai aus Dessau”, married to Golde b’ Wolf Brandes (d. 3.9.1761 Berlin) — daughter: ## Esther (b. ca 1708; d. 19.6.1780 Berlin) [cf
®36 p.173]