Editing Gustav Mahler (section)

====Family background====
[[File:Jihlava 2007.jpg|thumb|upright|alt= View of a street of old buildings, the largest of which is a tall clock tower with an archway|Jihlava, the city where Mahler grew up]]
The Mahler family came from eastern [[Bohemia]], now in the Czech Republic, and were of humble circumstances—the composer's grandmother had been a street pedlar<!--Do not change this spelling to "peddler". The correct spelling in British English is "pedlar"-->.<ref>Blaukopf, pp. 15–16</ref> Bohemia was then part of the [[Austrian Empire]]; the Mahler family belonged to a German-speaking minority among Bohemians, and was also [[Jewish]]. From this background the future composer developed early on a permanent sense of exile, "always an intruder, never welcomed".<ref>Cooke, p. 7</ref> The pedlar's son Bernhard Mahler, the composer's father, elevated himself to the ranks of the [[petite bourgeoisie]] by becoming a coachman and later an innkeeper.<ref name=Sadie505>Sadie, p. 505</ref> He bought a modest house in the village of [[Kaliště (Pelhřimov District)|Kaliště]] ({{langx|de|Kalischt|link=no}}), and in 1857 married Marie Herrmann, the 19-year-old daughter of a local soap manufacturer. In the following year Marie gave birth to the first of the couple's 14&nbsp;children, a son named Isidor, who died in infancy. Two years later, on {{Nowrap|7 July}} 1860, their second son, Gustav, was born.<ref name=Blaukopf18>Blaukopf, pp. 18–19</ref>