10 Facts About Martha Bernays

Martha Bernays was the wife of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

Martha Bernays's paternal grandfather Isaac Bernays was a Chief Rabbi of Hamburg.

Martha Bernays was raised in an observant Orthodox Jewish family, the daughter of Berman Bernays and Emmeline Philipp.

Martha Bernays told a cousin that "not being allowed to light the Sabbath lights on the first Friday night after her marriage was one of the more upsetting experiences of her life".

Martha Bernays was the aunt of Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American publicist and "father of public relations",.

Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays met in April 1882 and after a four-year engagement they were married on 14 September 1886 in Hamburg.

Martha Bernays was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and her ashes placed in the Freud Corner, into the same ancient Greek funeral urn that holds her husband's ashes.

The young Martha Bernays was a slim and attractive woman who was a charmer, intelligent, well-educated and fond of reading.

However, Martha Bernays was not able to establish a strong connection with her youngest daughter, Anna.

Opponents point to the unlikelihood of such a betrayal taking place between sisters as close as Minna and Martha Bernays, especially given the mores of the time; and to the less sensational possibility of the hotel simply being full at the time.