# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lea-mendelssohn-bartholdy
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:28:12.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lea-mendelssohn-bartholdy"
name: "Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy"
slug: "lea-mendelssohn-bartholdy"
description: "Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a musician, musical promoter, and salonièrre. She was the wife of banker and cultural patron Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy and mother of the composer Fanny Hensel, the composer Felix Mendelssohn, the singer and salonnière Rebeckah Mendelssohn Dirichlet and the banker and cellist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy. A promoter of music and culture, she was the centre of a musical salon in Berlin, which had developed since 1819 from the domestic musical life of the Mendelssohn family and gained considerable importance from 1831 onwards through the activities of her daughter Fanny."
tagline: "Musical promoter (1777–1842)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1823_Hensel_Lea_Mendelssohn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1777-03-26"
deathDate: "1842-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.52
  momentum:             10
  historical:           2.417172
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Mendelssohn_Bartholdy"
    title: "Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Mendelssohn_Bartholdy"
    title: "Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1810407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations