Talk:Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Move Proposal
The above move was requested by Mst. He neglected to add the above notice so I did. I do not support the move myself. Superm401 | Talk 01:11, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)


 * Object. Both versions of the name are common, from what I can see.  It would be difficult to prove the new version is the official one. Superm401 | Talk 01:11, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * The hyphen was omitted intentionally from the family name by Felix Mendelssohn's father Abraham (against common German spelling). --Mst 09:39, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Uppland 09:48, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Early exit
Why did he die young?Lestrade (talk) 13:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
 * More importantly: if he died at a mere 39 years of age, why does his photograph show him with long a long white beard and old age baldness, more consistent with a heptagenerian or octagenerian. Could somebody reflect on this please? George Adam Horváth (talk) 13:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been reflecting. The image id identifies him as "Paul Mendelsohn".  Note, only 1 "s", and no "Bartholdy".  Whoever it was, it wasn't anyone who died at the age of 39, so I took it out.  --  JackofOz (talk) 08:51, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
First, a U.S. Patent (included to establish he was a scientist). What strikes me is the number of gScholar hits he gets as an editor, a fact not mentioned in the article.

He is indeed a co-founder of AGFA.

74.69.39.11 (talk) 22:00, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This is a different person, Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (with the hyphen). Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy died 1880.
 * Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (without a hyphen) is the co-founder of Agfa and lived 1841-1880. The hyphen in the book is a typo, quite common in literature (remember how often you read "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" although he is written without a hyphen, as well). Sebastian Panwitz (talk) 14:58, 11 May 2010 (UTC)