Nanette Salomons Cohen

Nanette Salomons Cohen (after marriage, Nanette Pressburg; c 1764 – 1833) was a Dutch citizen known for being the maternal grandmother of Karl Marx, the socialist philosopher and economist. Life Nanette Salomons Cohen was born in 1764. Her parents were Shlomo ben David Cohen-Chazzan (1731–1804) and Sara bat Mordechai Brandeis (1736–1810) (sometimes called Barent-Cohen) in Amsterdam, the family belonging to Amsterdam's Jewish community. Her paternal grandfather was Barent Cohen, a wealthy merchant. In 1785, Nanette Cohen married Isaac Heymans Pressburg (1747–1832) of Nijmegen. The Pressburgs were a prosperous family, Isaac working as a textile merchant. They were leading members of Nijmegen's Jewish community, Isaac acting as cantor of the synagogue where his father, Hirschl (or Chaim) Pressburg, had been the rabbi. They initially lived in Nonnenstraat near the synagogue, before moving to a larger house on Grotestraat in 1808. Nanette died in Nijmegen on April 7, 1833, at the age of 69, her husband having died the previous year.