{geni:about_me} Birth is recorded in ''Czech Jewish Registers'', www.badatelna.cz, Nikolsburg (Mikulov) Births 1850-1873, Image [http://www.badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=1073&am...&reproId=3705139 '''#158'''] of 161.Five Kanitz siblings are listed together on "page 157" of that volume.

Birth Year 1855, loc.: Wien (genteam.at ''Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna'') -- b. ''Jedlesee bei Floridsdorf (Niederosterreich) [WEW]"
* Last Name Kanitz, First Name Sigmund
* Parents/Annotation Ignaz / Beck Fanny
* No. 286342, Year 1855, Numerative '''2185'''

Sigmund's birth appears in ''[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2579...=MMGD-24K:n526254496 Index] to Geburtsbücher''. The ''Geburtsbuch'' itself for that year is not available.

Marriage info per genteam.at (see above):
* Year 1887 [April 17], loc.: Tempelgasse, Record [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-2580...MMGD-K1R:n1101942075 #168]
* Last Name Kanitz, First Name Sigmund
* Last Name Stricker, First Name Jenny

Marriage record appears in FamilySearch.org's "Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911," 02. Bezirk (Leopoldstadt) Trauungsbuch D 1886 Aug.-1889 Mai, Image #52 of 173. See also [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2579...MMGD-2Q8:n1929309465 certificate of marriage] attached to son Ernest's birth record.

Sigmund Kanitz "a coal merchant in Vienna" per Eva Stricker-Barolin letter. "He was very witty and knew it," per family history memo of Otto Stricker, his wife's nephew, "and they were well off." Sigmund was k.k. Kommerzialrat,Generalreprasentant der Berliner Firma ''Emmanuel Friedlaender & Co.'' in Wien. He held half of an [http://books.google.com/books?id=4skZwjCHnEUC&...anitz%22&f=false 1897 U.S. patent] to a [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.st...om/pdfs/US667399.pdf "new furnace grate"] (with [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Franz_Maier '''Fritz Franz Maier'''] of Vienna, Austria-Hungary). See also in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HtI1AQAAMAAJ&...anitz%22&f=false Patentblatt: herausgegeben von dem Kaiserl. Patentamt, Volume 21] ("Trademarks", 1895).

Lived at Wien II, Nordbahnstrasse 44 in 1890s-[http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/periodical/zoom/87894 early 1900s]; from 1914, at Wien III, Landstraßer Hauptstraße 1 in a 1906 apartment building called "Wiener Bürger-Hof" (family info; also seen in ''Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger'' for [http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/periodical/zoom/141556 1914], City Directory; via WienBibliotekDigital; also in ''WEW''.

''Neue Freie Presse'' [http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&a...;seite=16&zoom=2 death notices] were published on July 24, 1919.

Buried [http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp?lang=en Zentralfriedhof] Cemetery, Vienna:
* Kanitz Jenny d. 04/30/1921 bur. 05/02/1921 ZENTRALFRIEDHOF I. TOR 52 56 7
* '''Kanitz Sigmund''' 64 Year(s) bur. 07/23/1919 ZENTRALFRIEDHOF I. TOR 52 56 7
* Neurath Olga 38 Year(s) bur. 10/29/1926 ZENTRALFRIEDHOF I. TOR 52 56 7

For information on Nikolsburg, Moravia, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikulov