Reinach - Surname

Surname

• Adolf Reinach (1883–1917), German philosopher
• Elna Reinach (born 2 December 1968), South African tennis player (1980–95)
• The Reinach Hirtzbach family, a family from Alsace
• The German Reinach family descends from Jekel Reinach, a notable 18th century Jew from Mayence, whose descendents settled in Frankfurt before emigrating to France. He had two notable grandsons :
  • Adolf Reinach (1814–1879), Belgian consul in Germany, ennobled in Italy in 1866, father of
    • Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach, known as Jacques de Reinach (1840–1892), banker implicated in the Panama scandal.
  • Hermann-Joseph Reinach, set up in Paris, married Julie Büding, had three children :
    • Joseph Reinach, (1856, 1921), lawyer and journalist, witness in the Dreyfus affair
    • Salomon Reinach, (1858–1932), archaeologist, brother of the former
    • Théodore Reinach (1860–1928), French archaeologist, mathematician, jurist, historian and politician, brother of the former
      • Adolphe Reinach (1887–1914), French archaeologist, son of the former