Eugen Rafael

Male 1865 - 1890


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  • Name  Eugen Rafael  [1
    Born  11 Apr 1865  House Nr. 20, Austerlitz, Wischau, Moravia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender  Male 
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    Occupation  1890  Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    a law student 
    Residence  Bef 16 Apr 1890  Herminengasse 10(?), Wien II, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died  16 Apr 1890  Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • by shooting himself in the temple
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    Anecdote  17 Apr 1890  [4
    • The evening edition of the Neue Freie Presse of April 17, 1890 included a short mention of Eugen's suicide. The paper stated, "Yesterday evening the 25 year-old jurist, Eugen Rafael, shot himself in the Prater [a large public park in Vienna's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt] next to the warehouse. The world-weary man was a law student and employed as a stenographer in the law office of W. Zucker on Strauchgasse. He lived with his brother at Herminengasse 6 in the second district. He was known as a decent, well-situated man. Yesterday at 5 he left the office as usual, wrote letters, and said that he was going to his married sister in Fünfhaus. It was only late in the evening that the family members of the young man learned of the suicide, whose motives are entirely unknown. Outside of office hours Rafael had recently been preparing for the oral examinations."
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    Article about the suicide of Eugen Rafael, Neue Freie Presse, 17 April 1890
    Reference Number  8731 
    Buried  18 Apr 1890  Zentralfriedhof Tor I, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    • Group 19, Row 16, Grave 45
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    Gravestone of Eugen Rafael and Valerie Fröschel, Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
    Person ID  I8731  My Genealogy
    Last Modified  19 Apr 2009 

    Father  Abraham Rafael,   b. 07 Jul 1828, House Nr. 26, Austerlitz, Wischau, Moravia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Jul 1903, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Fanni Weiner,   b. 14 May 1832, Pohrlitz, Moravia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Dec 1910, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Banns  25 Oct 1856 
    Married  30 Nov 1856  Austerlitz Synagogue, Austerlitz, Wischau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census  02 Jan 1870  House Nr. 20, Austerlitz, Wischau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F579  Group Sheet

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    Link to Google MapsResidence - Bef 16 Apr 1890 - Herminengasse 10(?), Wien II, Austria Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S341] Census-1869-Rafael, (2 January 1870).

    2. [S881] Rafael Research Report, Klenovsky, ing. arch. Jaroslav, (10 July 2007), Eugen Rafael birth record, 11 April 1865, Nationalarchiv Praha, Geburtsmatrik Slavkov, 1848-1873, Inv. Nr. 1868.

    3. [S447] Vienna, Death Record of Eugen Rafael, nr. 1722.

    4. [S890] Neue Freie Presse, Selbstmorde, 17 April 1890, Abendblatt, p. 1.

    5. [S1019] Zentralfriedhof-I-Gravestone, Eugen Rafael and Valerie Fröschel marker, Group 19, Row 16, Grave 45.