Franz Kafka's family tree
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Kafka's maternal grand-mother was born Esther Porias.
She was the daughter of the textile merchant and rabbi Adam Porias.
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I. Kafka's father
Son of butcher Jakob Kafka and his wife, Franziska Platowski,
he was born and raised in Wossek, southern Bohemia.
From 1882 on, he was a fancy-goods merchant in Prague.
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II. Julie Löwy (1856-1934)
Kakfka's mother. Daughter of the textile merchant
and brewer Jakob Löwy and his wife, Esther Porias,
she was born and raised in Podiebrad on the Elbe.
She married Hermann Kafka in 1882.
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Jacob Löwy (1824-1910), Kafka's maternal grandfather,
a textile merchant and brewer in Podiebrad.
He married Esther Porias. |
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