Editing Felix Mendelssohn (section)

=== Marriage and children ===
[[File:Cecile Mendelssohn Bartholdy.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|alt= |Mendelssohn's wife Cécile (1846) by [[Eduard Magnus]]]] [[File:Magnus Jenny Lind.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Jenny Lind by Eduard Magnus, 1862]]Mendelssohn married Cécile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud (10 October 1817&nbsp;– 25 September 1853), the daughter of a French Reformed Church clergyman, on 28 March 1837.{{sfn|Todd|2003|pp=102, 347}} The couple had five children: Carl, Marie, Paul, Lili and Felix August. The second youngest child, Felix August, contracted [[measles]] in 1844 and was left with impaired health; he died in 1851.{{sfn|Todd|2003|pp=485–486}} The eldest, Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (7 February 1838&nbsp;– 23 February 1897), became a historian and professor of history at [[Heidelberg University|Heidelberg]] and [[Freiburg University|Freiburg]] universities; he died in a psychiatric institution in Freiburg aged 59.{{sfn|Schoeps|2009|pp=211–214}} [[Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy]] (1841–1880) was a noted chemist and pioneered the manufacture of [[aniline]] dye. Marie married Victor Benecke and lived in London. Lili married [[Adolf Wach]], later professor of law at [[Leipzig University]].{{sfn|Schoeps|2009|p=163}}

The family papers inherited by Marie's and Lili's children form the basis of the extensive collection of Mendelssohn manuscripts, including the so-called "Green Books" of his correspondence, now in the [[Bodleian Library]] at Oxford University.<ref>[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/mendelssohn/mendelssohn.html The Mendelssohn Papers], Bodleian Library website. Retrieved 3 December 2017.</ref> Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy died less than six years after her husband, on 25 September 1853.{{sfn|Schoeps|2009|p=193}}