How did harry houdini get his name?
Throughout his life, Harry Houdini claimed that he was born April 6, 1874 in Appleton, Wisconsin. In fact, he was born with the name Ehrich Weisz on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. His father was Mayer Samuel Weisz, a religious teacher, whose first wife had died in childbirth. Ehrich was a child of his second wife, Cecilia Steiner. How many children the couple had is unclear, although six of their children survived to adulthood. Hoping for a better life for his family, Mayer emigrated to America and changed the spelling of his last name to Weiss. http://www.lycos.com/info/harry-houdini.… In Ehrich’s quest for more books on magic he came across a book called, “Memoirs of Robert-Houdin”, a book about a nineteenth century magician from France. This magician became his hero and model of what he wanted to do with his magic. While still a teenager, Ehrich took on the name, “Houdini” after his hero. Everyone began
