Earlier Years
She was the daughter of Anton Reiß (Reiss), a prosperous Viennese upholsterer. Her mother was the daughter of a wine merchant and local mayor.
She was accused of theft by her parents in 1804, an event that would later play a role in her lawsuit with Beethoven.
On 25 May 1806 she married Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven, younger brother of Ludwig. Their only child, Karl van Beethoven, was born about three months later, on 4 September of the same year.
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