GRANFATHER:

          CHRISTOPHER HAHNEMANN
            In the Church Register of Lauchstedt the name of Hahnemann first appears around 1733. This shows that this town was not the native place of the ancestors of Samuel Hahnemann. Christopher Hahnemann was a painter by profession. He had no less than seven children; three sons and four daughters. His second son and fifth child was Christian Gottfried, the father of Samuel Hahnemann.

FATHER:

          CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED
        He was also a porcelain painter by profession. He married twice, first was on 27^th, November, 1748 which was of short duration.
        His first wife died early leaving behind an infant daughter who died nine months later.
        He married for second time to Johanna Christiana, mother of Samuel    Hahnemann. Died on 15^th November, 1784.

MOTHER:
          JOHANNA CHRISTIANA SPIESS

She was the only daughter of the Captain and Quartermaster of Kotzschenbroda, of Saxe-Weimar. She lived with her daughters after the death of her husband. Died around 1790.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

1. AUGUSTUS HAHNEMANN

Elder brother. Field Apothecary in Austria

2. CHARLOTTE HAHNEMANN

Married, first husband was Pastor A.B.Trinus, of Eisleben; by whom one son, Bernard. For second husband she married General Superintendent Muller, of Eisleben.

3. BENJAMINA HAHNEMANN

Married M. Aubortin, of Stuttgart; her daughter married Von Landech, and lived at Rosswein.

WIVES

1. JOHANA HENRIETTE LEOPOLDINE KUCHLER- (First wife )

Daughter of Gottfried Henry Kuchler, step-daughter of apothecary Haseler, born June 7, 1762; married at Dessau, December 1, 1782; died at Coethen,March 31, 1830. Bore Eleven Children.

2. MELANIE D'HARVILLY- (Second Wife)

Daughter of a painter of Savoy. He afterwards became blind and destitute, and Hahnemann cared for him.
Adopted daughter of (the late Minister of justice and President of the Executive Directory of the French Republic in the time of the Eighteenth Brumaire, 1799,) Louis Jerome Gohier. (M. Gohier died in 1830.).

CHILDREN

1. Henriette
   Eldest Daughter, born at Gommern in 1783,

Married Christian Friedrich Forster who was a minister ;Lived in Dresdorf, near Sangerhausen, in the Thuringen Hartz Mountains.

Had 4 children (two sons and two daughters): Louis-merchant, Robert-farmer, Angeline who married Herr Stollberg, Adelheid-unmarried.

After her husband's death the mother spent the rest of her life retired in Dresdorf and died there.

2. Friedrich
   a son, born at Dresden, November 30, 1786, He had Rickets which left him high-chested and with a curvature of the spine. He was intelligent as well as eccentric. He was always an anxiety to his parents. He studied at Torgau School and later at Leipsic University. His gift for languages and considerable knowledge were as celebrated as his father's. It was his name that Hahnemann used for refuting Hecker's attack on the "Organon". Married in 1812 and settled as a homeopathic physician in Wolkenstein where he also acquired the pharmacy. Owing to envy of his apothecaries and his eccentric behavior he fled to Holland. Hahnemann often felt sorry for him "My poor son is actually going mad!" Had but one child, a daughter, who married Rector Hohlfeld, of Dresden. Died about 1829. His widow died of consumption on 22^nd March, 1858, in Leipsic.
    

3. Wilhelmine
   A daughter, born at Dresden in 1788, Married Music. Director Richter, of Gera. Died in 1818 at age of thirty-five years. Had one son, Hermann Friedrich Siegmund, who died at Coethen on May 13, 1866.
    

4. Amalie
   A daughter, born in 1789. Married Dr. Leopold Suss whose practice was in Wittenberg. He died of malignant fever (probably typhus) before the birth of their first son, Leopold Suss, who afterwards took the name Suss Hahnemann. He became a homoeopathic practitioner and was one of the greatest critics of Melanie Hahnemann. 'Malchen' as Amalie was called within the family, was a close associate of her father. It was her duty to keep the patients' registers in order and to regulate her father's correspondence. She married for second time to Herr Liebe, a mill inspector from Stassfurt. The marriage however was not happy and she was separated within a few years. Thereafter she Lived in Paris and London and was among the privileged mourners who attended Hahnemann's funeral. She died in Coethen on December 7, 1857.
    
5. Karoline
    A daughter. Died in Kothen in 1830 unmarried, before her mother's death.
    
6. Ernst
    A son, born on 27^th February, 1794, in Molschelben died in the same year while still an infant. Killed by a fall from a wagon in an accident, near Mulhausen on Hahnemann's removal to Pyrmont
    
7. Friedrike
   One of the twin sisters born in 1795. She married twice, first husband was Andra, a Post Secretary to the Court. After his death, she married Dellbruck, Inspector of Post and Clothing, in Stotteritz, near Leipsic. Both marriages were childless. After the death of Dellbruck she lived alone, she was robbed and murdered quite close to her house in Stotteritz.

     8.  A still born sister, the other twin of Friedrike.

9. Eleonore
A daughter. Married to Herr Klemmen, Afterwards to Dr. Wolff. In the year 1834 she published a book called "Homoeopathic Adviser for the Home" which was much criticized. Hahnemann dissociated himself from its publication, accusing Dr.Wolffe of 'manufacturing this miserable patchwork and ascribing it to my daughter'. In 1835 the marriage was annulled, later she also suffered a tragic end by drowning.

10. Charlotte
Born at Leipsic, Lived with her father and died at Coethen , unmarried, April 13, 1863 of paralysis of the lungs. She was the last surviving unmarried daughter of our great Master).

11.  Louise
Born at Leipsic, Married Dr. Mossdorf, After his death she lived at Coethen with Charlotte. She dwelt alone in the paternal home until her death inJuly,1878