About Mertz's hypotheses, Joseph Needham writes in a footnote that "the proposed identities in general require a heroic suspension of disbelief".
Henriette Sontag | Fred Mertz | Princess Henriette of France | Marie Anne Henriëtte Leopoldine de La Tour d'Auvergne | Henriette Davidis | Henriette Bie Lorentzen | Henriette Avram | Marie Henriette of Austria | Henriette of Cleves | Henriette H. Lannes | Henriette d'Orbe-Montfaucon | Henriette DeLille | Elizabeth Mertz | Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel | Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau | Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth | Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim |