Richard Wagner was born to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, then part of the Confederation of the Rhine, who lived at No 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions) in the Jewish quarter on 22 May 1813. [n 1] He was baptized at St. Thomas Church. He was the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the Leipzig police service, and his wife, Johanna Rosine (née Paetz), the daughter of a baker.