Known Descendants
Two of Marcus's daughters, Lowisa (1787-1842) and Hedda (1796-1834) married two brothers of the successful von Reis family of Gothenburg Jews.
A number of famous Swedes have descended from Marcus and his wife Fredrika Isaksdotter (1760-1826, originally Freideh Isaac), such as historian Hugo Valentin, TV producer Gunilla Marcus-Luboff, Judge Stig Marcus, the Bonnier publishing dynasty, opera star Isa Quensel, industralist Stefan Anderson, photographer Mattias Klum, pop entertainer Magnus Uggla, TV journalist Jens von Reis, writer-impresario Jacob Truedson Demitz, banking attorney Biƶrn Riese and drama director Annabelle Rice. Usually, already the early descendants of Marcus and Isaksdotter married into Swedish families which were not Jewish. American botanist-author Siri von Reis in New York and daughter Serena Altschul also descend from Marcus.
In 1900 a comprehensive account of the entire Marcus family and its descendants was published in Sweden as a large printed circular chart, and an extensive family roster was updated until 1942 by Curt Marcus. Beginning around that time, Jewish descent (no matter how diluted) was kept in very low profile, especially during World War II and even in neutral Sweden.
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