Henryk Andrzej Kronenberg

Henryk Andrzej Kronenberg (born February 14, 1813, died September 9, 1886 in Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish doctor, part of the Kronenberg family who were nineteenth century industrialists, financiers, and Polish nationalists.

Henryk was born to the merchant Samuel Eleazar Kronenberg (1773-1826) and Tekla (Teresa) Lewy (1775-1848). He had seven siblings: Ludwik, Rozalia, Stanisław Salomon, Dorota, Maria, Leopold Stanisław, and Władysław Alfons.[1]

He was a doctor of medicine, but it is not known which medical university he graduated from. For some time he was the chief doctor of the Moscow Children's Hospital. Later he moved to Warsaw. He became the chairman of the Care Council of the Prague Hospital . On June 12, 1874, he was awarded the rank of actual state councilor. On May 4, 1875, he received the hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire with the coat of arms of Koronets.

Like almost all of his siblings (except for Ludwik), he outwardly converted to Christianity for social reasons, but unlike Stanisław and Leopold, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church rather than a Calvinist.

He was married to Katarzyna Sévinard (1822-1884), with whom he had four children: Wiktor (1840-1905), a lawyer; Emilia (1845-1921), the wife of the industrialist Jan Gotlib Bloch; Aleksandra (1846-1921); and Maria Helena (1853-1896), the wife of Leon Loewenstein.

He was buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (section 173-4 / 5-7).