Can anyone resolve the conflict on the father of Mate Rothschild-Bacharach (Stadthagen)?
Joseph HaLevy Goldschmidt Stadthagen
Joseph de Bonne dit Stadthagen
To the best of my knowledge, Rabbi Joseph Stadthagen never lived in Hamburg. He was born in Metz in 1640 and died in Stadthagen in 1715 (www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz125144.html). This leaves Jobst Goldschmidt, who was known as Yosef Stadthagen in Yiddish, as the most likely candidate to be Mate's father. He lived in Hamburg. Moreover, Mate's tombstone (hha-1994) does not call her father a rabbi.