BERLINER

PIONEER:

nationality:
occupation:

born: 20 May 1851, Hanover, GERMANY
died: 3 Aug 1929, Washington DC

married in 1881:
Cora ADLER (b. 1 Jan 1862, Baltimore, MD - d. 21 Nov 1942, Washington DC)

children:

Herbert Samuel (13 Sept 1882, ....)

Hannah Edith (19 Mar 1884, ....)

Edgar Maurice (25 July 1885, ....)

Oliver

Louise 13 Apr 1894, ....)

Henry Adler (b. 13 Dec 1895, ....)

Alice Elizabeth (b. 29 Apr 1900, ....)

PARENTS:

father: Samuel BERLINER (b. 1 May 1813, ........ - d. .... 1872)
mother: Sally FRIEDMANN (b. 1826, ....... - d. .... 1903, ........)
they got married on 28 Febr 1847

children:

Hermann (b. 1848)

Jacob (b. 1849)

Adolph (b. 1850)

Emil (b. 20 May 1851, Hanover, GERMANY - d. 3 Aug 1929, Washington DC)

Manfred (b. 29 Jan 1853 - d. 24 Feb 1931, Hanover)

Franziska (b. 1854)

Rebecka (b. 1855)

Moritz (b. 1856)

Johanne (b. 1857 - d. 1857)

Joseph (b. 1858)

N.N. (b. 1859 - d. 1859)

Rahel (b. 1864)

Else (b. 1869)

LIFE:

Left Germany for New York on the SS "HAMMONIA" in 1870
Again visited Germany in 1881 and returned in 1883.

"Emile Berliner in Deutschland" in Phonographische Zeitschrift of 1 Nov 1906 (with picture of Berliner and Georg Rothgiesser)

NOTES:

Talking Machine Review pp 213-217 (The Berliner Family by Walter Kwiecinski. Transl. by Stephen Wyler)

100 Jahre Schallplatte. Von Hannover in die Welt

Picture of Emil Berliner (in: The Talking Machine Review No. 23, Aug 1973, p. 225)

Picture of Emil Berliner on cover of: The Talking Machine Review No. 75, Autumn 1988

"Oliver Berliner" by George Frow (in: Hillandale News No. 169 of August 1989 (pp. 230-231))

S. Berliner, III's Hannover Berliners Page (online)

Internet

Picture of Emile Berliner.
Written in the top right hand corner:
"To Sinkler from his friend Emile Berliner.
W[ashington] D.C. Mar[ch] 17, 1920"
Berliner gave an almost identical
photograph to Fred Gaisberg
(see opposite p. 11 of Music on Record by F. W. Gaisberg)

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