Matriarch: Mathilde Winternitz née Porges (b. ca. 1827-1828, d. 29 April 1885 Vienna, after long painful suffering, at the age of 57 years).

Funeral Friday 1 May 1885 at 10:30 a.m. at the Vienna Central Cemetery, Israelite Section.

Calendrical date correction

The Scholars page currently records Mathilde's death as "May 29, 1885". The obituary's funeral date "Friday 1 May" (verified: 1 May 1885 = Friday ✓) and her death "on the 29th of this month" imply a death of 29 April 1885 (Wednesday), not 29 May 1885.

Calendrical proof: A funeral on Friday 1 May 1885 cannot follow a death on 29 May 1885 (the funeral would precede the death by 28 days, which is impossible). The death must therefore have been 29 April 1885 (= Wednesday, 2 days before the Friday 1 May funeral).

Birth-year refinement: at age 57 in 1885 → b. ca. 1827-1828 (Scholars currently shows "abt 1831", which is a 3-year approximation).

Family — three married children

Husband: Leopold Winternitz (b. abt 1813 Patzen, Bohemia, m. Vienna 29 March 1857, d. 26 March 1881 Vienna, occupation Spirituosenhändler) — predeceased Mathilde by four years (already correctly documented on Scholars.html).

Children (alive 1885):

• Ludwig Winternitz (b. 1858 Vienna)

• Emma Pfalzner née Winternitz (d. 24 July 1922) — married Michael Pfalzner (m. 1880 Vienna, d. 10 April 1914)

• Lina Müller née Winternitz (d. 18 March 1919) — married Ignatz Müller (m. 1884 Vienna)

Sons-in-law: Michael Pfalzner, Ignatz Müller.

This family configuration matches exactly the Scholars.html record — this obituary confirms the Winternitz-Porges-Pfalzner-Müller family network already documented there. The only data points needing addition or correction:

1. Death date: 29 April 1885, not 29 May 1885
2. Birth year: ca. 1827-1828, not abt 1831
3. Cause of death: "long painful suffering" → consistent with chronic illness (cancer, tuberculosis, or kidney disease are most plausible)

Holocaust trajectory

Mathilde's three children all died of natural causes in the inter-war period (Ludwig date unknown but b. 1858; Emma †1922; Lina †1919). Her grandchildren — children of Emma Pfalzner (b. ca. 1882-1900) and Lina Müller (b. ca. 1885-1900) — would have been the Anschluss-era deportation cohort.

• Search DÖW for Pfalzner and Müller Vienna transports 1938-1945 — descendants of Mathilde's two daughters
• Cross-reference with the broader Vienna Porges-Winternitz network on Scholars page

Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).