XIXth century CE

Christian theologian, philosopher, and historian born September 6, 1809, in Eisenberg, in the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, died April 13, 1882, in Rixdorf, near Berlin. In 1842, he publishes in the…

Austrian humorist born in Raab-Sziget, Hungary, on 15 October 1853. Educated at home until 1873, the year he went to Vienna to study medicine, he began writing for comic newspapers and soon abandoned…

Chaplain of the Tuileries, in Paris, born in 1829 in Budapest, Hungary, died in 1898. After an adventurous youth, he converts to Catholicism in Paris under the influence of Carmelite friar Augustin —…

Austrian physician born in Vienna on 25 February 1844, specialist in vaccination. Trained in his native city, he obtained his doctorate in 1870 and became physician at the Wieden hospital, a position…

Hungarian jurist born in Budapest on September 21, 1853, where he studied, brother of Isidor Baumgarten. From 1876 to 1892, he practices law in Budapest while directing the technical journal «…

Austrian author and community activist born in Kremsier on January 15, 1828. After a youth spent in several yeshivas, he moves to Vienna in 1848, where he leads a commercial life while attending…

Hungarian jurist born on March 27, 1850 in Budapest, where he completes his studies. After a stay abroad, he is admitted to the bar in 1882 and becomes in 1885 lecturer in criminal law at the…

Born in Ekaterinoslav, leader of the women's labor movement, Mapai deputy during the first five Knessets (1949-1965), first woman member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense commission. Figure of…

Austrian journalist, musician and revolutionary born in Manchester, England, in 1803 (or 1805), died in Vienna on 23 November 1848. After studying law in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin, he turns to…

Austrian economist born in Plany, Bohemia, on February 28, 1806, died in Vienna on March 4, 1873. Trained at the universities of Prague and Vienna, he entered state service in 1831, became in 1835…

German physician and medical author born in Filehne, in the province of Posen, in Prussia, on May 6, 1862. Doctor of Medicine from the University of Berlin in 1889, he was assistant physician at the…

Austrian poet born on May 1, 1817 in Baja, Hungary, died on April 10, 1879 in Währing, near Vienna. Of Jewish origin but raised in the Protestant religion, he abandoned in 1833 his medical studies in…

Hungarian singer born in 1868 in Budapest, where he attended business schools. Trained by Abrányi Kornél at the National Academy of Music, where he also studied piano with Sándor Nikolics and…

Hungarian financier born in 1838 in Bács-Madaras. His parents settled in Budapest while he was still a child, and it was there that he completed his commercial education. In 1864, he became…

Romanian editor and school director, born in Pápa, in Hungary. He directs the bimonthly review « Revista Israelita » and is the author of a pedagogical work in Romanian, « Vocabular Analytici…

President of the Hungarian Hypothekenbank, born in 1840 in Bács-Madaras, younger brother of Miksa Beck. Trained in Pest, he obtained in 1867 a position at the Anglo-Hungarian Bank, then was elected…

French legal scholar born in Aix, Provence, in 1804, died in that city on February 4, 1882. Trained in law at the University of Aix, he began his law practice in 1825 and became dean of the bar in…

French magistrate born in Aix-les-Bains on 20 February 1817, died in Paris on 5 June 1899. Graduate of the University of Paris, he entered public life in 1840 as deputy to the tribunal of Aix, then…

English community activist born in 1835, died in London on January 23, 1900. Involved in the management of several Jewish institutions in London, he was one of the founders of the Central Synagogue,…

English community activist born in 1819, died on October 31, 1872. A member of the United Synagogue council and of several committees of charitable and educational institutions, he served the…

English community activist born in 1821, died in Carshalton on September 9, 1898. Associated throughout his life with the principal community institutions of London, he was one of the first members…

Professor of oriental languages at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, born in Amsterdam in the early nineteenth century. Devoted very early to the study of Hebrew literature, notably…

Austrian historian and pedagogue born in Prossnitz, Moravia, February 27, 1831. Trained in the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Prague, and Vienna, he taught history in Czernowitz, Prague, and…

Austrian colonel born in 1833 in Prossnitz, Moravia, died on October 2, 1888 in Laibach, Carniola. Graduated from a cadet school with the rank of lieutenant, he became professor at the military…

Religious teacher and author in Munich, he compiled in 1826, under the direction of Abraham Bing, rabbi of Wurtzbourg, and with the approval of the bet din of Fürth, a catechism in German, "Lehrbuch…

German philanthropist and community activist, died in Berlin on June 22 (or 24), 1854. Wife of banker Jacob Herz Beer and daughter of Liebmann Meyer Wolf, she distinguished herself by her charity,…

German mathematician born in Trier on July 31, 1825, died in Bonn on November 18, 1863. Educated at the technical school and gymnasium of his native city, he went in 1845 to Bonn to study mathematics…

Austrian medical writer born in Brünn, Moravia, on April 24, 1859. Trained in the secondary schools of his native city and then at the University of Vienna, where he received his degree in 1885, he…

Composer, son of Michael Beer and nephew of Giacomo Meyerbeer, born in 1833 in Paris, where he still resided in 1902. His first compositions, two comic operas in one act, were performed before a…

Italian rabbi born in Pesaro, died in Rome on May 6, 1835, where he had served as rabbi since 1825. On December 18, 1829, he was received for forty minutes by Pope Leo XII to plead on behalf of his…

English journalist, daughter of Sassoon D. Sassoon. Privately educated, she has directed and edited since October 1893 the « Sunday Times », of which she is owner. Member of the Institute of…

Austrian mezzo-soprano born November 23, 1862 in Cracow, Galicia. After her father's bankruptcy, she had to earn her living and perfected herself, under the impetus of her patroness Princess Sapieha,…

French physician and historian born in Metz on April 24, 1802 (or, according to some sources, April 23, 1803), died in Paris on May 31, 1888. After serving as a military physician during the Spanish…

Russian-Hebrew writer born in Wilna on August 5, 1820, died in Kherson on November 14, 1900, last representative of the maskilim, that circle of pioneers of Jewish culture in Wilna gathered around…

Chief rabbi of Baghdad around 1843, author of two Hebrew works: 'Shir Ḥadash,' commentary on the Song of Songs, printed in Calcutta in 1843, and 'Na'awah Tehillah,' commentary on the Psalms,…

Rabbi and author who lived in Salonika in the early 19th century. He is the author of a Hebrew work, « Torat Mosheh » (Salonika, 1802), a collection of responsa.

German physician born in Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, on June 12, 1803, died in Berlin on May 30, 1889. Initially destined for commerce, he became an employee in Königsberg in 1819, before abandoning that…

Dermatologist, medical writer, and professor of medicine at the University of Berlin, born in Neu-Stettin, Prussia, on January 10, 1847. Trained at the gymnasium of his native city then at the…

Physician and community leader born in Liverpool in 1828, died in London on 28 November 1893. Trained at University College Hospital in London and then in Manchester, he became licenced of the Royal…

German jurist born in Berlin on September 13, 1833. Becoming Gerichtsassessor in 1859, he opts for an academic career and becomes privat-docent at the University of Berlin in 1864, publishing the…

Russian teacher and editor born in Friedrichstadt, in Courland, on September 26, 1830, died in Saint-Petersburg on April 27, 1893. Established in Mitau in 1854, he opens in 1861 a private school for…

Russian teacher and physician, born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, died in Vilna on March 9, 1897. Graduate of the Rabbinical School of Vilna, he was principal teacher there for…

Hakham and Karaite hazan born in Odessa around 1820. Well educated by his father, an excellent Hebrew scholar, he devoted himself to teaching his coreligionists and founded numerous schools in Odessa…

Austrian physician and philanthropist born in Lemberg on April 7, 1807, died in that city on October 12, 1880. Having entered the University of Vienna, he obtained his medical diploma in 1835 and…

Hungarian rabbi

Hungarian physician, internist, university professor and politician

American dramatist born in San Francisco in 1858, of English parents. Trained at Lincoln College in San Francisco after a childhood spent in Vancouver under the tutelage of a Catholic priest, he…

Russian editor and scholar born in Odessa around 1835, he devoted himself principally to the study of the genealogy of ancient Jewish families of Russia, including his own, publishing on this subject…

English woman of letters and educator born in London around 1820, died in that city in 1885. Granddaughter of Isaac Mendes Belisario, she directed for many years, with her sisters, a school for girls…

Russian political economist born in Odessa in 1865. As a student, he joined the Jewish nationalists of Odessa and taught at the free Sabbath school of Löw and Sussman. Graduated from university in…

Polyglot writer and Greek philologist born in Corfu on October 31, 1862. He edited in 1877 a Hebrew-Greek vocabulary for the book of Genesis, then studied at the University of Athens before moving to…

American financier born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816, died in New York on November 24, 1890. Trained in Frankfurt-am-Main and employed for several years in the banking offices of Rothschild, he settles…

Jurist born in Hamburg in 1843, died in that city on March 19, 1888. Trained at the Johanneum and the gymnasium of his native city, he studied law at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and…

Diplomat and intermediary between Abd el-Kader and the French government, died in Algiers in September 1839. The French governors of Algeria Clauzel and Valée also made use of his services.

American screenwriter

Dutch physician

Polish rabbi

Israeli educator

Storyteller of Odessa of traditional Jewish life, member of the Hovevei Zion.

Writer and editor, founder of the Tushiyah publishing house in Warsaw.

Chief rabbi of Serres, in European Turkey, for sixteen years, from 1825 to 1841; born in 1788, died in 1841. He is the author of a collection of responsa, « Tiferet Adam » (The Beauty of Man),…

Israeli Zionist activist, teacher, historian and politician

Elijah Benamozegh is an Italian rabbi born in Livorno in 1822 and died in the same city in 1900, son of a couple originally from Fès, in Morocco, orphaned at the age of four. After a brief commercial…

Franz Ferdinand Benary is a German orientalist born in Cassel on March 22, 1805 and died in Berlin on February 7, 1880. After studying theology and philology at Bonn and then at Halle, where Gesenius…

Karl Albert Agathon Benary is a German philologist born in Cassel in 1807 and died in 1860, brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. Trained in Göttingen and Halle, where he studied classical philology…

Baron L. Benas is an English community notable born in Liverpool in 1844, a leading figure of the Old Hebrew Congregation of Liverpool, of which he is one of the administrators. During the Russian…

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann is a German painter born in Berlin on 3 December 1811 and died in Düsseldorf on 27 December 1889, son of a Berlin banker in contact with intellectual circles of the…

Rudolf Christian Eugen Bendemann is a German painter born in Dresden on November 11, 1851 and died in May 1884 in Pegli, near Genoa, in Italy. Trained at the Academy of Düsseldorf under the direction…

Alfred Philipp Bender is a rabbi born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1863, trained by his father the Reverend Philipp Bender, rabbi of the Dublin congregation, then at St John's College, Cambridge. Appointed…

Menahem Manus Bendetsohn is a Russian Hebraist pedagogue and writer born in Grodno in 1817 and died in the same city on March 20, 1888. Trained in the Talmud then sent to Breslau, he publishes in…

Otto Julius Emanuel Bendix is a Danish oboist and pianist born on July 26, 1845 in Copenhagen, brother of Frits Bendix. Trained on oboe by Christian Schliemann and a student of Gade and Rée, he was…

Victor Emanuel Bendix is a virtuoso violinist, pianist and Danish composer born on May 17, 1851 in Copenhagen, brother of Frits Bendix. Student at the Copenhagen Conservatory from 1867 to 1869, where…

Salvatore de Benedetti is an Italian scholar born on April 18, 1818 in Novara, in Piedmont, and died on August 4, 1891 in Pisa. Trained at the college of Vercelli, the only Piedmontese establishment…

Sir Julius Benedict was a composer, conductor and music professor born in Stuttgart on November 27, 1804 and died in London on June 5, 1885. A student of Hummel in Weimar and then of Weber in Dresden…

Coenraad Benedictus is a mohel and surgeon active in Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, around 1830. Almost nothing is known of his life, except that he published in Paramaribo, probably in 1830, a treatise…

Edmund Benedikt is an Austrian jurist born in Döbling, near Vienna, on October 6, 1851. After studying law at the University of Vienna, he becomes the editor of the journal « Juristische Blätter »…

Moritz Benedikt is a German journalist, editor and editor-in-chief of the « Neue Freie Presse » in Vienna, born in Gnatschitz, Moravia, on May 27, 1849. He joined the newspaper's editorial board in…

Moriz Benedikt is an Austrian neurologist born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, on July 6, 1835. Trained at the University of Vienna under Hyrtl, Brücke, Skoda, Oppolzer, Arlt and Rokitansky, he obtained…

Rudolf Benedikt is an Austrian chemist born in Döbling on July 12, 1852 and died in Vienna on February 6, 1896. Trained at the Polytechnicum of Vienna, he became assistant in technical chemistry…

Theodor Benfey is a German Sanskritist and comparative philologist born in Nörten, Hanover, on January 28, 1809, converted to Christianity in 1848 and died on June 26, 1881, son of a Jewish merchant…

Arthur Benham is a dramatic author born in 1875 and died of phthisis in Brighton, England, on September 8, 1895, barely out of his twentieth year. Promising author of two plays, « The County » and «…

Born in Ancona in 1806, died in Florence in 1887, reputed to be an excellent Hebraist. He published several Italian translations of classical and biblical Hebrew texts, contributing to 19th-century…

Abraham Benisch is a journalist and theologian born in Drosau, Bohemia, in 1811, and died in Hornsey Rise, near London, on 31 July 1878. Inspired, from his studies in Prague around 1836, by the idea…

American entrepreneur

Rabbi born in Asti, he held rabbinical positions in Italy before becoming haham of the Sephardic community in London in 1866, where he was very active in education. He published a collection of…

Benjamin ben Meïr is a Polish talmudist and preacher active in Brody, Galicia, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of 'Imre Binyamin', a homiletical commentary on the first…

British novelist and statesman

Born in Warsaw to a Hasidic family, became a freethinker and pioneer in popularizing scientific socialism in Yiddish. Associate editor of the Forward, Di Arbeter Tsaytung and the journal Di Tsukunft,…

Born Benjamin Wechsler on November 14, 1898 in Iași, known in Romania as a symbolist poet under the name Fundoianu, he settled in Paris in 1923 and wrote in French under the pseudonym Fondane. Close…

Born in New York into a Portuguese Jewish family (father Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto, physician immigrant from the Netherlands; mother Rachel Seixas). Appointed American consul in Bucharest by…

German Orthodox rabbi

German rabbi

Romanian Jewish traveller and historian

Benjamin II (his real name Joseph Israel) is a Romanian traveler born in Folticheni, in Moldavia, in 1818, and died in London on May 3, 1864. Taking Benjamin of Tudela as his model, he sets off at…

French rabbi

Teacher, Talmud researcher (1879–1944)

Rabbi of Avignon, founder of the monthly journal La Famille de Jacob. Prolific author: collection of poems An Angel of Heaven on Earth, works of civic instruction (Rights and Duties of Man, 14…

Benjamin 'Ozer b. Meïr is a Polish Talmudist who died in Zolkiev on 25 May 1810, rabbi in Clementow then head of the yeshiva of Zolkiev. His collection of Talmudic novellæ, « Eben Ozer », published…

Born in Zbarazh in Galicia, he left his town around 1845 because of the scandal caused by his satirical verses and became an itinerant singer in Jewish households and cafés in Botoșani, Iași, Galați.…

David Benjamin is a community notable born in London in 1815 and died in the same city on June 25, 1893. Emigrated to Australia in 1835, he contributes to founding a synagogue in Tasmania before…

Judah Philip Benjamin was an American statesman and lawyer born in Saint-Croix, the West Indies, in 1811, and died in Paris on May 6, 1884, son of English Jews who settled in Saint-Croix shortly…

Michael Henry Benjamin is a South African politician born in London in 1822 and died on June 11, 1879. He left for the Cape Colony around 1849, resided ten years in Graaff-Reinet before settling in…

Moses Benjamin is a Beni Israeli military officer born in 1830 and died in Bombay in December 1897, son of a subedar. Enlisted as a common soldier in the Twelfth Native Infantry of Bombay, he…

Samuel Benjamin is a French soldier enlisted in 1837 in the Carlist expedition against Madrid, known for his bravery and devotion to his lieutenant, Boulan de Brie. Mortally wounded, the latter was…

Sir Benjamin Benjamin is a businessman and community notable born in London in 1836, arrived in Australia at the age of nine. Melbourne city councilman from 1870 and alderman in 1881, very engaged in…

William Benjamin, known as « Bill Bainge », is an English pugilist born in Northleach, Gloucestershire, in 1826. He first faced Tom Sayers, champion of England from 1857 to 1860, on 5 January 1858 on…

Louis Benloew is a French philologist born in Erfurt on November 15, 1818 and died in Dijon in February 1900. Trained at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Göttingen, he settled in France in…

Henry Bennett is a sergeant of the British army born in England in 1863 and killed in combat during the war against the Afridis, in November 1897; he was the grandson of Solomon Bennett, the engraver…

German sculptor

German rabbi

Jewish politician from Bukovina

Don Judah Benoliel was consul of Morocco and Austria in Gibraltar, president of the Jewish community of the city and its chamber of commerce; he died in 1839. He distinguished himself by his services…

Joseph Benoliel is a Portuguese translator established in Lisbon, author of the short work « Porat Yosef », which brings together Spanish translations of the Pirké Avot, the Passover Haggadah, the…

Simon Bensheim is a member of the Oberrat (Upper House) grand-ducal of Baden, born in Mannheim on October 14, 1823 and died in the same city on October 26, 1898. Highly committed to community and…

Born in Turin, philologist trained at the University of Turin, specialist in Romance and general linguistics, editor of the Archivio Glottologico Italiano. Forced into exile by fascist racial laws…

rabbi, author and Jewish orator (1851–1914)

Born in Žasliai (Vilna governorate). Studied Semitic languages in London and at Jews' College, then worked on Genizah fragments at JTS and was fellow at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Learned…

Israeli rabbi

Benedix Benzion is a Russian physician converted to Christianity and missionary to the Jews, born in 1839 in the government of Kiev. Baptized in Berlin in 1863 after several years in Romania, awarded…

Jonah Borisovitch Berchin is a Russian historian born in Kritchev, in the government of Mogilev, in 1865, and died in Moscow in August 1889. Educated until fourteen years of age in a strictly…

Micah Joseph Berdyczewski is a Hebrew writer born in 1865, son of the rabbi of Bershad in Podolia, who represents to some extent the Nietzschean spirit within the Hebrew literature of his time.…

French rabbi

Dutch rabbi

German publisher born in Hamburg in 1824 and died on 24 June 1899, head of the family publishing and book trade « Gebrüder Berendson ». Highly engaged in Jewish community affairs, he held several…

Gottlieb Michael Berendt is a German geologist born in Berlin on January 4, 1836. Trained in mining sciences, he publishes in 1863 the first geological map of the March of Brandenburg, settles in…

Bernhard Berenson is an art critic and historian born in Vilna, Russia, on June 26, 1865. Trained in the United States, a Harvard graduate in 1887, he devoted himself in Italy to the study of Italian…

Issachar Baer b. Samuel Berenstein is a Dutch rabbi born in Leeuwarden, Holland, in 1808, and died in The Hague on December 13, 1893, son of Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam Samuel b. Berish Berenstein.…

Joseph Bergel is a Neo-Hebrew writer of the first part of the nineteenth century, private tutor in Prossnitz, in Moravia. He publishes in 1826 and 1827, in the yearbook « Bikkuré ha-'Ittim »,…

Yom-Ṭob Bergel is a merchant and community notable of Gibraltar, born in 1812 and died in Gibraltar on October 14, 1894. One of the richest and most respected merchants of the Jewish community of the…

Émile de Berger is an ophthalmologist and Austrian medical author born in Vienna on 1 August 1855, trained at the University of Vienna. Lecturer in Graz from 1882 to 1887 then professor of…

Ernst Berger is an Austrian painter, brother of the ophthalmologist Baron Émile Berger, born in Vienna on January 3, 1857, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of his native city from 1874 onward,…

Oscar Berger is a German electrotherapist and medical author born in Münsterberg, Silesia, November 24, 1844, and died in Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia, July 19, 1885. Doctor of medicine in 1867, he…

Philippe Bergèr, Christian professor of Hebrew and member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, was born in Beaucourt, in the Haut-Rhin, in September 1846, brother of Samuel Bergèr. A…

Samuel Bergèr is a French professor of Protestant theology, secretary and librarian of the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Paris, born in Beaucourt, in the Upper Rhine, on 2 May 1843, brother of…

Michael Bergson is a musician born in Warsaw in 1818 and died in London on 9 March 1898, from an eminent Jewish family of Warsaw with which he always maintained ties. A student of Chopin in his…

Jonas Bergtheil is a pioneer of Natal, in South Africa, born in England around 1815 and died in 1902. Emigrated around 1844, he settled as a farmer among the Boers, who treated him with religious…

Lajos Berkovits is a Hungarian violinist born in Budapest in 1874, graduate of the National Academy of Music where he studied with Jenő Hubay and David Popper. Having departed for Paris in 1895, he…

Josef Berkowicz is an officer of the Polish army, son of Colonel Berek (Berko), who took part in the Battle of Kock in 1809, where his father was killed. Leaving military service in 1815, he becomes…

Benzion Judah ben Eliahou Berkowitz is a Russian Hebraist born July 23, 1803 and died in Wilna on May 11, 1879, author of several works devoted to the study of Targum Onkelos, including "'Oteh Or"…

Henry Berkowitz is a Russian-English educator born in Warsaw in 1816 and died in Gravesend on April 5, 1891. Arriving in London in 1841, he attracted the attention of Chief Rabbi Adler, who welcomed…

Ukrainian Jewish folk singer, the most famous of the 'Broder singers' (Broder-zinger), itinerant Yiddish performers of the 19th century, a precursor tradition to Yiddish theater.

Anton Berlijn is a conductor and composer born in Amsterdam on May 21, 1817 and died in the same city on January 16, 1870, author of nine operas, seven ballets, an oratorio, a symphony, a cantata and…

Leo Berlin is a Russian lawyer, son of Moses Berlin, born in Vitebsk on November 22, 1854. Trained in Saint Petersburg then in law at Berne University (graduated in 1878), he obtained in 1881 the…

Moses Berlin is a scholar, community notable and Russian official born in Chklov, Russia, in 1821, and died in Saint Petersburg on March 25, 1888. Trained in philosophy and philology at Königsberg…

Naḥman ben Simḥah Berlin is an anti-reformist polemicist writer active in Lissa, Germany, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, whose literary activity was entirely devoted to the…

Naphtali Ẓebi Judah Berlin is the head of the yeshiva of Volozhin, in Russia, born in Mir, in the governorate of Minsk, in 1817, and died in Warsaw 10 August 1893. Married in 1831 to the daughter of…

Rudolf Berlin is a German ophthalmologist born on May 2, 1833 in Friedland, in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and died in Rostock on September 12, 1897. Doctor of medicine in 1858, he established himself in…

Samuel Berlin is a German jurist born in Bamberg on October 11, 1807, and died in Fürth on December 21, 1896, son of Löb Berlin of Bamberg, later « Landesrabbiner » in Cassel. Trained at the…

Emil Berliner is an American inventor born in Hanover, Germany, on May 20, 1851, graduated in 1865 from the Samson Schule in Wolfenbüttel. Emigrated to America in 1870, settled in Washington since…

Jekuthiel Berman is a Russo-Hebraist novelist born in 1825 and died in Moscow around 1889. Employed for more than thirty years by the Jewish railroad magnate Samuel Poliakov, he lived in Tver in the…

Moriz Bermann is an Austrian writer born in Vienna on March 16, 1823 and died in the same city on June 12, 1895, from a family of publishers. After his father's death, he devoted himself to…

Ralph Bernal is a politician and art collector of Judeo-Spanish descent, died in 1854, son of Caribbean merchant Jacob Israel Bernal. Graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1806 and 1809, then a…

American art historian (1865-1959)

Polish rabbi, politician, and diplomat (1874–1938)

American rabbi

Russian-born American Orthodox rabbi and scholar (1885-1940)

Lithuanian lawyer, judge, journalist and politician (1859–1929)

Born in Offenbach am Main on August 13, 1863, son of Rabbi Samuel Dessau and younger brother of historian-epigrapher Hermann Dessau. Graduate of Strasbourg (1886) under August Kundt. Assistant at the…

Hungarian rabbi and church writer (1872-?)

Jacob Bernays is a German philologist born in Hamburg on September 18, 1824 and died in Bonn on May 26, 1881, eldest son of hakham Isaac Bernays. Sent to study in Bonn in 1844, he obtains his degree…

Julius D. Bernd is an American merchant and philanthropist born in 1830 and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 30, 1892. A prosperous businessman and member of the chamber of commerce, he…

Maximilian Bern was a German writer born in Kherson, in southern Russia, on November 18, 1849, where his father practiced medicine. After his death and the ruin of his fortune, which forced him to…

Olga Bern, née Wohlbrück, is an Austrian writer born in Vienna 5 July 1865, wife of Maximilian Bern. An actress under her maiden name, she married the German writer Bern in 1887 while performing at…

Austrian gynecologist (1882-1942)

Austrian writer

German rabbi

Martin Bernhardt is a German neurologist and medical author born in Potsdam on April 10, 1844, trained at the University of Berlin under Virchow and Traube. Graduated doctor of medicine in 1867, he…

Abram C. Bernheim is an American lawyer born in New York on February 1, 1866 and died in that city on July 24, 1895, trained at Columbia College and the university of Berlin. Lecturer on the…

Ernst Bernheim is a German historian born in Hamburg on February 19, 1850, trained at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Göttingen. Doctor of Strasbourg in 1874 with a thesis on…

Hippolyte Bernheim is a French physician and neurologist born in Mulhouse, in Alsace, doctor of medicine from the University of Strasbourg in 1867, where he became the same year lecturer and city…

Leopold Bernard Bernstamm is a Russian sculptor born in Riga on April 20, 1859, trained from adolescence in Professor Jensen's studio and at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg.…

Leopold Bernstein-Sinaieff, called Sinaieff, is a Russian-French sculptor born in Vilna on November 22, 1868, settled in Paris from the age of fourteen, where he became a student of Dalou and…

Bernard Bernstein is an actor born in Warsaw in 1861, who made his debut in the chorus of the Polish opera in the city before playing, in 1882, the comic role of grandmother Jachné in Goldfaden's «…

Eduard Bernstein is a socialist leader, editor, and author born in Berlin in 1850, first a bank employee before turning to socialist ideas. He joined the Social Democratic Party in 1872, directed…

Elsa Bernstein, under the pseudonym of Ernst Rosmer, is a German dramatist born in Vienna, daughter of Heinrich Porges, the friend of Richard Wagner, trained in Munich and briefly an actress before…

Hermann Bernstein is a Russian-American writer born September 20, 1876 in Shirwindt, Russia; at age seven, his family settled in Mogilev, on the Dnieper, where he attended the free Jewish school,…

Hirsch Bernstein is a Russian-American editor and publicist born in Vladislavov, in the government of Souvalki, on March 25, 1846. Emigrated to the United States in 1870 and settled in New York, he…

Hugo Karl Bernstein, also said Karl Hugo, is a Hungarian dramatist born in Budapest in 1808 and died in Milan in 1877. After studies in medicine interrupted for lack of means, he served as a military…

Ignacy Bernstein is a Polish bibliophile and paremiologist born in Vinnitza, Podolia, January 30, 1836, son of banker Samson Bernstein, trained by the scholar Moses Landau. Married in 1856 to Eliza,…

Ignati Abramovitch Bernstein is a Russian railway engineer born in Kremenetz, in Volhynia, in 1846, and killed on July 5, 1900 aboard the steamer "Odessa", between Harbin and Khabarovsk. Trained at…

Israel Bernstein is a Hebrew-fluent Russian publicist born around the middle of the nineteenth century in Vélij, in the government of Vitebsk, trained in pharmacy in Moscow and practicing as a…

Joseph « Joe » Bernstein is an American boxer born in November 1877 in New York, who made his ring debut in 1894 with five victories and established himself the following year as a recognized…

Julius Bernstein is a German physiologist and medical author born in Berlin on 8 December 1839, son of Aaron Bernstein (1822-84). Awarded doctorate in medicine from the University of Berlin in 1862,…

Karl Ilyich Bernstein is a Russian jurist, professor of Roman law, born in Odessa on January 13, 1842 and died in Berlin in 1894. Educated in Dresden, Halle, Heidelberg and Berlin, he obtained his…

Max Bernstein, under the pseudonym Silas Marner, is a German writer born May 13, 1854 in Fürth, Bavaria, a lawyer in Munich, whose literary activity is devoted especially to theater; among his…

Naphtali Herz Bernstein is an author active in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century, a businessman who devoted his leisure time to biblical study without ever publishing anything during…

Nathan Ossipovitch Bernstein is a Russian physiologist born in Brody, Galicia, in 1836, and died in Odessa on February 9, 1891, grandson of the chief rabbi of Posen Salomon Eger. Settled in Odessa…

Émile Berr is a French journalist born in Lunéville on June 6, 1855, trained at the lycées of Vanves and Louis-le-Grand. After a commercial career from 1875 to 1886, he devoted himself entirely to…

George Berr is a French actor and playwright born in Paris on July 31, 1867, brother of Émile Berr. Student of Got at the Conservatory from the age of sixteen, he won first prize in comedy in 1886…

Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski is a Russian historian and jurist born in Berdiansk on 30 March 1850 and died in Saint Petersburg in 1896, graduate of the Kertch gymnasium in 1868 and of the…

Russian political figure

Hungarian theologian, rabbi and lecturer

German dermatologist (1891-1956)

Joseph Vassilievitch Bertensohn is a Russian court physician born in Nikolaïev, in the government of Kherson, in 1835, a graduate of the gymnasium of Odessa in 1849 and of the University of Dorpat in…

Lev Bernardovitch Bertensohn is a Russian physician born in Odessa on August 10, 1850, son of Bernard and nephew of Joseph Bertensohn, graduated from the Larine gymnasium in Saint Petersburg in 1867…

Vasili Alekseyevich Bertensohn is a Russian agronomist born in Odessa 12 September 1860, of hereditary nobility, graduate of the Odessa technical school in 1879 and of the Moscow Agricultural Academy…

Slovak-born Hungarian writer (1860–1903)