Edmond de Fels

Edmond de Fels

Edmond de Fels (1858, in Marseille – 1951) was a French diplomat, writer and historian.

Biography

Edmond Gustave Frisch was born in Marseille on July 30, 1858.[1] His mother, Anna Fölsch von Fels (1826-1893), was born and died in Marseille. The Fölsch von Fels family, originally from Hamburg, Germany, produced a long dynasty of Swedish Consuls in Marseille, a post the family held continuously for 150 years in the city, from 1731 to 1881. His father, Jules Théodore Frisch (1818-1895), was born in Copenhagen and died in Marseille. He was a shipbroker and Danish Consul in Marseille from 1849 to 1858.

Edmond Frisch is a diplomat based in Tunis and Madrid.

On December 3, 1888 in Paris, he married Jeanne Lebaudy (1865-1943),[2] a wealthy heiress to the Lebaudy sugar dynasty whose mother was the philanthropist Amicie Lebaudy and whose brothers Jacques Lebaudy, Robert and Max Lebaudy.

References

  1. ^ "Edmond de Fels (1858-1951)" (in French).
  2. ^ "Edmond Frisch de Fels".


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