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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 3/25/2026 1:58 PM
Family Surname: Salomon , lippmann
Country: France
Town: Hochfelden
Date of Image: 1795

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I think I found the wedding act of Jonas Salomon anf Riffge Lippmann form 13 Messidor year 3 in hochfelden.
Can you help translation ?
The part 2 of the act will be also uploaded shortly.
Thank you for your help

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3/25/2026 4:21 PM

I wanted to read through your posted document, but I personally will not work from such a low-resolution image. If you get no useful assistance from another volunteer I recommend re-posting the ORIGINAL DOWNLOADED IMAGE (a screenshot of what is displayed on your computer is almost never adequate). If the website where you found the document does not permit downloading, you could include in your post a direct link to the document page so that we volunteers can view the original image ourselves.

Robert Rosenbaum (Ashland, Oregon)
Freelance translator and interpreter
M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (German-English), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
rosenbaum.robert@gmail.com

3/26/2026 8:58 PM

Here you go Bruno. I had the impression that personal names in this document were sometimes recorded as “firstname lastname” and sometimes as “lastname firstname”. At first I tried to adjust all names to “firstname lastname” but this got confusing so I kept them in the form in which they appear in the document – you can have the pleasure of sorting them out :-)

Also, nearly every personal name appears in multiple spellings; I tried to spell each instance as in the original.

The documents read aloud at the ceremony go from the “first” (birth record of groom) straight to the “third” (banns). I wonder if the “second” was the bride’s birth record, which the notary forgot to mention in this document.

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This thirteenth day of Messidor in the third year of the French Republic at nine o’clock in the morning, the following persons appeared before me, Joseph Gutmann, member of the General Council of Hochfelden, to perform a marriage between

Jonas Major...?, age 28 years, born in Zaberen, Département of Lower Rhein, Hagenau district, son of Salomon Libmann, merchant in that place, and his [wife? – unfamiliar word, looks like “Frattin”] Jonas [sic], and

Rifka Lippmann, age 21 years, daughter of Lippmann Elias and Allexander Rechel, residents of Hochfelden, Lower Rhein, Hagenau district

accompanied by Salomon Lippmann of Zaberen, age 55 years, and [Feissel?] Levi, age 31 years, and Mathiss Vögle of Hochfelden, and Jacob Moses and Johanes [Holzmann?], both residents of Hochfelden.

I, Josebh Gutman read out to the assembled witnesses:
FIRST, the birth record of Jonas Solomon, 28 years of age, that he was born legitimately from the lawful union of Salomon Lipmann;
THIRD, the announcement of the bride and groom as future wedded spouses, prepared by Joseph Guthmann on the 6th day of Messidor and posted on the door of the Town Hall that same day as required by law.

After Jonnas and Rifel Lippmann stated aloud that they wished to be married, I made the pronouncements in the name of the law and signed and subscribed the present instrument along with the parties and witnesses in their own hand.

Done at Hochfelden in the Town Hall, dated as shown above.

Jonas, groom
Salomon Libman, father of the groom
Ma...id Vögl[er?] as witness
[Hebrew signatures]
Feisel Lefi as witness
Holtzmann as witness
Joseph Guthmann as public official

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Translated by Robert Rosenbaum (Ashland, Oregon)
Freelance translator and interpreter
M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (German-English), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
rosenbaum.robert@gmail.com

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