MULTIPLE LEGACIES

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Robert Whitehead: Hope to end all wars
Encyclopedia Britannic - Robert Whitehead
November 1905, The Engineer Magazine - Robert Whitehead's Obituary
PRO TORPEDO Rijeka - Biography by Edwyn Gray

Musicians, von Trapp Children

Johanna

Medical Thilenius Family

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Medical Lineage - Thilenius family, through 5x-great-grandfather, Dr. Moritz Gerhard Thilenius
Lauterbacher Anzeiger, Hessen Newspaper [article is German] - Dr. M.G. Thilenius works with Mayor in the 18th century

vonTrapp.org - The von Trapp family's 22 year musical career and 2,000+ performances throughout 30 countries
vonTrapp.org - Trapp Family Music Camp
vonTrapp.org - Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc.: the largest private US post-World War II relief efforts

Photo: © Georg & Agathe Foundation

FREEDOM-FIGHTER,

Princess Illona Zrinyi

Shela directly descends from multiple historic legacies. She is a great-granddaughter of Baron Captain Georg von Trapp, World War I Austro-Hungarian naval hero and father of the von Trapp children—whose family's life story inspired the world-renowned play and movie, The Sound of Music—and his first wife Agathe Gobertina Whitehead, granddaughter of British engineer Robert Whitehead, inventor of the torpedo. Shela is a granddaughter of Baroness Johanna von Trapp of the Trapp Family Choir and Trapp Family Singers, later portrayed as the second youngest von Trapp child, 'Marta', in the play and movie. Her ancestors also are Hungarian & Croatian dynasties and national heroes: Esterházy, Erdödy, Pálffy, Széchenyi, Rákóczy, Zrínyi, and Frangepán.

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Countess Katarina Frankopan Zrinska, 11x-great-grandmother
Georg & Agathe Foundation - Count Fran Krsto Frankopan, 11x-great-grandfather
Georg & Agathe Foundation - Count Pétar Zrinski and Count Nikola Zrinski, 12x-great-uncles

17th century historical figures remembered for their efforts toward Croatian and Hungarian independence from the Habsburg Empire

Photo: © 21st Century Fox

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Historical Figures: Prince Ferenc Rákóczy, 10x-great-uncle, and Count Janos Pálffy, 9x-great-grandfather
Encyclopedia Britannica - Ferenc Rákóczi, II: Prince of Transylvania
Rákóczi Múzeuma, Sarospatak, Hungary [website is in Hungarian] - Website

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Baron Captain Georg von Trapp: World War I Austro-Hungarian Naval hero
vonTrapp.org - von Trapp family coat-of-arms
Georg & Agathe Foundation - Agathe Gobertina Whitehead, Baroness von Trapp— Georg's first wife: accomplished musician, loving mother, and dedicated naval wife

Marta

17th to 19th century Swiss and Duchy of Hesse (today Germany) family of artists

von Trapp

Parents to the von Trapp children portrayed in the play and movie, The Sound of music

Naval Heritage, Georg & Agathe

Rodgers and Hammerstein - Our Shows: The Sound of Music
20th Century Fox - 1965 Movie Trailer
IMBd - Awards List
vonTrapp.org - The Sound of Music History: from reality to legend

Artistic Nahl Family

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Historical Figures: Nahl family of artists, through 4x-great-grandmother, Clementine Emilie Nahl
January 1937, University of Berkeley, California Art Research Project - The Nahl Family: eight generations of artists

Shela Gobertina von Trapp

Photo: Courtesy of von Trapp family

Politician & Philanthropist,
Count Istvan Széchenyi

Dr. Thilenius came from a long line of medical doctors and founded the family branch specializing in Balneology (study of medical springs)

17th & 18th century Croatian-Hungarian freedom-fighter remembered today as a national heroine 

Croatian & Hungarian

Poets And Heros

Photo: Courtesy of Whitehead family

Széchenyi was a respected national statesman and today is known as “the Greatest Hungarian”

Agathe's grandfather, Robert Whitehead, was a British engineering and inventor of the torpedo

17th & 18th century Hungarian independence freedom-fighter against the Habsburg Empire

freedom-Fighter,

Prince Ferenc II Rákóczy

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Historical Figure: 6x-great-uncle, Count Istvan Széchenyi
Encyclopedia Britannica - István, Count Széchenyi: Hungarian political reformer and writer
Hungarian National Museum - The founding of the museum, patron Count Ferenc Széchényi, 7x-great-grandfather

One of the world's most beloved, enduring, and popular musicals of all times

Descendant of Illona Zrínyi, Croatian & Hungarian national heroine

Engineer, Robert Whitehead

Georg & Agathe Foundation - Princess Ilona Zrínyi, 10x-great-grandmother
Consulate General of Hungary, New York, USA - Famous women in Hungarian history
Encyclopedia.com - Zrinyi, Ilona

The real von Trapp family's story inspired the play and movie, The Sound of Music

Celebrity Legacy

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