Family of Unknown Niggl

Partner: Unknown Niggl

  • Name:

  • Unknown Niggl

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1790

  •  

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • -; Village schoolmaster, Denklingen, Bavaria

  • Death:

  • 1839 (age 48-49)

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Child 1: Josephine Niggl

  • Name:

  • Josephine Niggl

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Lorenz Herkomer (1825-1888)

  • Children:

  • Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914)

  • Note (shared):

  • Pianist and teacher of music. Josephine Niggl was the daughter of a schoolmaster, one of a class who at that time in Germany held a position next in importance to that of the parish priest. She was a real musician herself and came of a family of musicians. A nephew of hers was a schoolmaster at Oberammergau with the task assigned to him of improving the music at the Passion Play; another nephew, had a magnificent tenor voice; and two nieces, Marie and Mathilde Wurm, were well known in the musical world, the former being the winner of a Mendelssohn scholarship in London.

  • Birth:

  • 1826

  • Denklingen, Bavaria

  • Birth fact:

  • 1826 (age 0)

  • Birth year mentioned in DNB

  • Occupation:

  • 1871 (age 44-45)

  • -; Teacher of music

  • Death:

  • 1879 (age 52-53)

  • Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria

Child 2: Katarina Niggl

Child 3: Marie Sophie Niggl

Note on Child 1: Josephine Niggl - shared note

Pianist and teacher of music. Josephine Niggl was the daughter of a schoolmaster, one of a class who at that time in Germany held a position next in importance to that of the parish priest. She was a real musician herself and came of a family of musicians. A nephew of hers was a schoolmaster at Oberammergau with the task assigned to him of improving the music at the Passion Play; another nephew, had a magnificent tenor voice; and two nieces, Marie and Mathilde Wurm, were well known in the musical world, the former being the winner of a Mendelssohn scholarship in London.