Bach family

16th Century, Wechmar

Precise dates/genealogy very uncertain

• Hans Bach (b. before 1550, d.ca.1576)
  • Vitus „Veit“ Bach (ca.1555?–1599) VIAF

    Another (possibly related) Veit Bach is known to have died in 1619 (VIAF)

    • Philippus „Lips“ Bach (ca.1575?–1620), father or brother of Andreas (1587*), Wendel (ca.1600*)
    • Johann(es) „Hans“ Bach (ca.1585?–1626) VIAF, known as “der Spielmann”, father of Johann (1604*), Christoph (1613*), Heinrich (1615*)
  • Caspar Bach (ca.1570–after 1640)
    • Caspar Bach (ca.1600*) VIAF
    • Heinrich „Blinder Jonas“ Bach (†1635)
    • Melchior Bach (1603–1634)
    • Johann(es) Bach (1612–1632)
    • Nicolaus Bach (1618–1637)

Descendents of Johann Bach (“Erfurt Line”)

• Johann Bach (1604–1673) VIAF
  • Johann Christian Bach (1640–1682)
    • Johann Jacob Bach (1668–1692)
    • Johann Christoph Bach (1673–1727) VIAF
      • Johann Samuel Bach (1694–1720)
      • Johann Christian Bach (1696*)
      • Johann Günther Bach (1703–1756) VIAF
  • Johann Aegidius Bach (1645–1716) VIAF
    • Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749) VIAF
      • Johann Ernst Bach (1722–1777) VIAF
        • Johann Georg Bach (1751–1797) VIAF
    • Johann Christoph Bach (1685–1740)
      • Johann Friedrich Bach (1706–1743)
      • Johann Aegidius Bach (1709–1746)
      • Wilhelm Hieronymus Bach (1730–1754), not a musician
  • Johann Nicolaus Bach (1653–1682)
    • Johann Nicolaus Bach (1682*), not a musician

Descendents of Christoph Bach

• Christoph Bach (1613–1661) VIAF
  • Georg Christoph Bach (1642–1697) VIAF
    • Johann Valentin Bach (1669–1720) VIAF
      • Johann Lorenz Bach (1695–1773) VIAF
      • Johann Elias Bach (1705–1755) VIAF
  • Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693) VIAF
    • Johann Ernst Bach (1683–1739) VIAF
    • Johann Christoph Bach (1689–1740) VIAF
  • Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645–1695) VIAF
    • Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) VIAF
      • Tobias Friedrich Bach (1695–1768) VIAF
        • Tobias Friedrich Bach (1723–1805)
      • Johann Bernhard Bach (1700–1743) VIAF
      • Johann Christoph Bach (1702–1756)
        • Philipp Christian Georg Bach (1734–1809)
        • Ernst Carl Gottfried Bach (1738–1801)
        • Ernst Christian Bach (1747–1822)
      • Johann Heinrich Bach (1707–1782)
      • Johann Andreas Bach (1713–1779) VIAF
        • Johann Christoph Georg Bach (1747–1814)
    • Johann Balthasar Bach (1673–1691)
    • Johann Jacob Bach (1682–1722) VIAF
    • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) VIAF
      • Catharina Dorothea Bach (1708–1774) VIAF
      • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784) VIAF, known as the “Dresden Bach”
      • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) VIAF, known as the “Berlin Bach”
        • Johann Sebastian Bach (1748–1778) VIAF, painter
      • Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715–1739) VIAF
      • Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724–1763) VIAF
      • Elisabeth Juliana Friderica Bach (1726–1781), married Johann Christoph Altnikol (1719–1759)
      • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795) VIAF, known as the “Bückeburg Bach”
        • Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759–1845) VIAF
      • Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) VIAF, known as the “London Bach”
      • Johanna Carolina Bach (1737–1781)
      • Regina Susanna Bach (1742–1809) VIAF

Descendents of Heinrich Bach (“Arnstädt Line”)

• Heinrich Bach (1615–1692) VIAF
  • Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703) VIAF
    • Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669–1753) VIAF
      • Johann Christoph Bach (1705–1799)
      • Johann Christian Bach (1717–1738)
    • Johann Christoph Bach (1676–1730) VIAF
      • Johann Heinrich Bach (1709*)
    • Johann Friedrich Bach (1682–1730) VIAF
    • Johann Michael Bach (1685*) VIAF
  • Johann Michael Bach (1648–1694) VIAF, known as the “Gehrener Bach”
    • Maria Barbara Bach (1684–1720) VIAF, Johann Sebastian’s first wife
  • Johann Günther Bach (1653–1683)

Descendents of Lips Bach

• Andreas Bach (1587–1637), not a musician
  • Johann Bach (1621–1686)
    • Johannes Poppo Bach (1659–1738), not a musician
    • Johann Stephan Bach (before 1665–1717) VIAF
• Wendel Bach (ca.1600–?), not a musician
  • Wendel Bach (ca.1629–1682), not a musician
    • Johann Jacob Bach (1655–1718)
      • Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731) VIAF, known as the “Meininger Bach”
        • Samuel Anton Bach (1713–1781)
        • Gottlieb Friedrich Bach (1714–1785) VIAF
          • Johann Philipp Bach (1752–1846) VIAF
      • Nicolaus Ephraim Bach (1690–1760)
      • Georg Michael Bach (1703–1771)
        • Johann Christian Bach (1743–1814)

Other relatives

Thought to be related members of the family, but precise lineage not known.

• Hans Bach (ca.1555–1615)

  Thought by CPE Bach to be a member of the family: a distinct different individual to the Hans Bach who died in 1626 or the putative grandfather of that Hans who died ca.1576.

• Johann Michael Bach (1745–1820) VIAF, music theorist known as the “Wuppertaler Bach”

  Considered doubtful whether Johann Michael is the son of Johann Elias Bach.

  • Johann Georg Bach (1786–1874) VIAF
  • Georg Friedrich Bach (1792–1860)