Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz

German genealogist

Date of Birth: 01-May-1863

Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium

Date of Death: 05-May-1933

Profession: writer, jurist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz (1 May 1863, in Ghent – 5 May 1933, in Berlin), was a German lawyer, heraldist and genealogist who popularized a genealogical numbering system of ancestors. Stephan was the son of the prominent chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, descended from a Czech noble family from Bohemia, and his Belgian wife Stéphanie Drory. In 1898 Kekulé von Stradonitz published his interpretation of Eytzinger's and Sosa's method in his Ahnentafel-Atlas.
Ahnentafeln zu 32 Ahnen der Regenten Europas und ihrer Gemahlinnen, Berlin: J.
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Stargardt, 1898–1904, containing 79 charts of the sovereigns of Europe and their wives.
This method became the most common method of numbering ancestors and is known as the Sosa–Stradonitz Method or Ahnentafel.