Wallich

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German family which probably derived its name from the Hebrew transcription of "Falk" (ולק). The earliest known members of it are Joseph ben Meïr Wallich, a physician, and Moses Joshua Wallich, both of whom lived at Worms in the sixteenth century. A document relating to the purchase by Joseph b. Meïr Wallich of a Rashi and Rashbam manuscript (Worms, 1615) is signed by Joseph and by his two sons Eliezer and Solomon, all physicians and all surnamed Weibush (Phoebus?), and by thirteen other members of the Wallich family, among them the physicians Moses b. Lezer and Moses b. Moses Joshua (surnamed Weibelin). Many physicians of the Wallich family were prominent in Germany in the eighteenth century.

Abraham ben Isaac Wallich, Physician; born at Metz
Immanuel Wallich, Rabbi and physician of Coblenz in the 18th century
Joseph b. Meïr Wallich, Physician; the earliest known member of the family; flourished at Worms in the 16th and 17th centuries
Judah ben Abraham Wallich, Physician; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the 17th and 18th centuries
Moses b. Eliezer Wallich, Scholar; lived at Worms in the 17th century
Naphtali Hirz b. Abraham Wallich, Physician; lived at Metz in the 17th century
Solomon Wallich, Physician of Mayence, where he died May 11, 1780