Lorenz Adlon (baptized Laurenz) was born in Mainz as Laurenz, the sixth out of nine children of a Catholic shoemaker, Jacob Adlon, and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth (Schallot), an accoucheuse (midwife). His grandfather, Andreas Adlon, was a groom from the Spessart region.Bernd Funke: In der Steingasse fing alles an in: Allgemeine Zeitung 4 January 2013
