XIXth century CE

Ernest Bertheau is an Orientalist and biblical scholar born on November 23, 1812 in Hamburg and died on May 17, 1888 in Göttingen, where he became full professor in 1843, teaching Oriental languages,…

Born in Cologne into a Jewish family, Ph.D. from Leipzig (1897), he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1898) on the suggestion of Franz Boas, then the Field Museum in Chicago. He led…

Moravian rabbi

Sir Walter Besant is an English writer and novelist born in Portsmouth on 14 August 1836 and died in London on 11 June 1901, who helped aid Russian and Polish Jews flowing into the East End of…

David de Beth-Hillel is a Beni-Israël, author of a work of « Voyages » (Madras, 1832), the first book published by a Jew in India, in which he describes his peregrinations through the country.

Rabbi of Fez, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5569 of the Hebrew era (1809). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-1.

Bezalel b. Joseph (Yosel) is a Talmudist and Russian rabbi of Orlo, in the Grodno governorate, active in the early nineteenth century, author of a collection of responsa published in 1807 in…

Bezalel b. Moïse ha-Cohen is a talmudist born in Wilna on January 14, 1820, where he dies on April 13, 1878. Already an accomplished talmudist at eighteen, he becomes in 1840 assistant ecclesiastic…

Russian rabbi (1820–1878)

Alois Biach is an Austrian physician and medical author born in Lettowitz, Moravia, on 1 May 1849, trained at the gymnasium of Brünn and at the University of Vienna. Earned his doctorate in medicine…

Rudolf Bial is a violinist, orchestra conductor, composer and impresario born in Habelschwerdt, Silesia, on August 26, 1834, and died in New York on November 13, 1881. After beginnings as a violinist…

Gustav Wilhelm Hugo Bickell is a Christian Hebraist and professor at the University of Vienna, born on July 7, 1838 in Cassel. After studying Semitic languages in Marburg, he renounces Protestantism…

Oskar Bie is a German archaeologist, professor at the Technische Hochschule of Charlottenburg, near Berlin, born in Breslau on February 9, 1864, also editor-in-chief of « Neue Deutsche Rundschau »…

Henry Biegeleisen is a Polish critic and writer born in 1855 in Galicia, doctor of philology from Leipzig in 1882, now director of the Hebrew school of Lemberg. He notably publishes « Pan Tadeusz…

Julius Bien is an American lithographer, son of Emanuel M. Bien, hazan and lithographer, born in Naumburg, near Cassel, in Hesse-Nassau, on September 27, 1826. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in…

Lev Moïsseïevitch Bienstok was a Russian writer, educator and community notable born on April 6, 1836 in Loukatchi, in the government of Volhynia, and died on October 22, 1894 in Jaffa, Palestine.…

Albert Bing is an Austrian physician born in Nikolsburg, Moravia, on September 20, 1844, graduate in medicine and then surgery from the University of Vienna. Member of the staff of the Vienna General…

Meyer Hermann Bing was a Danish art publisher and industrialist born in Copenhagen on June 4, 1807, and died in the same city on September 15, 1883. After taking over his father's bookshop-stationery…

Sephardic from Bulgaria, leader of the Bulgarian Zionist movement and the revisionist movement, member of the illegal Committee for the Rescue of the Jews of Bulgaria during the Second World War. He…

Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld is a German pathologist and medical author born in Kluvensiek, near Rendsburg, in Holstein, on May 2, 1842, and died in Leipsic on November 19, 1899. Trained in Kiel and…

Johanna Bischitz of Heves, née Fischer, is a Hungarian philanthropist born in Tata in 1827 and died in Budapest on March 28, 1898, daughter of a porcelain manufacturer and wife of David Bischitz.…

Raphaël Jonathan Bischoffsheim is a Belgian financier and philanthropist born in Mainz in 1808 and died in Brussels on February 6, 1883. Having left for Belgium at a young age, he opened banks there…

Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck is a Prussian statesman born in Schönhausen on April 1, 1815 and died in Friedrichsruh on July 30, 1898, chancellor of the North German Confederation then of…

Ḳalman Kohn Bistritz is a Hungarian neo-Hebrew poet active in the early nineteenth century, author of the Purim drama « Goral ha-Ṣaddiḳim » (Vienna, 1821). Related to Meïr Kohn Bistritz, he is…

Meïr Kohn Bistritz is a Hungarian neo-Hebrew poet and author born in Vág-Bistritz, Hungary, in 1820, and died in Vienna on September 7, 1892, where he published most of his work. He published in 1858…

Isaac b. Salomon Blaser was a Russian rabbi and educator born in Wilna around 1840, considered the best disciple of Israel Lipkin and the most faithful interpreter of his moral teachings. Rabbi of…

Fritz Blau is an Austrian chemist born in Vienna on April 5, 1865, graduate doctor of philosophy in 1886 and then privat-docent of chemistry at the University of Vienna in 1890. He publishes several…

Heinrich Blau is a German journalist and playwright born in Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, on September 21, 1858. Left for London in 1878, where he becomes editor-in-chief of the "Londoner Journal", he…

Ludwig Blau is a Hungarian scholar and publicist born on April 29, 1861 in Putnok, trained in several yeshivot and then at the rabbinical school of Budapest, where he obtained his doctorate in 1887…

David Blaustein is an educator born on May 5, 1866 in Lida, near Vilna, Russia. Trained in the ḥeder and yeshiva of his native city, he studies Hebrew and rabbinic literature in Prussia under Israel…

Ozer Blaustein is a Russian teacher and writer, in Russian and Judeo-German, born in Dünaburg in 1840 and died in Warsaw on April 27, 1899. His Russian grammar was recommended by the Ministry of…

Gerson von Bleichröder is a German banker born on December 22, 1822 and died in Berlin on February 19, 1893. He entered the bank founded by his father at sixteen years of age, took over its direction…

David S. Bles is a community notable of Manchester born in The Hague, Holland, in 1834, and died in Vienna on October 14, 1899. Senior partner of the firm S. D. Bles & Sons, merchants of Manchester,…

Blin d'Elbœuf is a French manufacturer who introduced to France woolen cloth for women, soon considered the best in Europe and rewarded at the Vienna Exposition of 1870; in presenting a sample of his…

Ferdinand Blind-Cohen is a German student, stepson of radical Karl Blind whose name he had taken, who attempted the life of Prince Bismarck on May 7, 1866 before committing suicide in prison the…

Moritz Bloch, called Ballagi, is a Christian theologian and Hungarian lexicographer born on March 18, 1815 in Inócz, Hungary, and died on September 1, 1891 in Budapest, son of a farmer. Trained in…

André Bloch is a French musician, son of a rabbi of Wissembourg, in Alsace, where he was born in 1873. A composer from the age of seven, he entered the Paris Conservatoire and won first prizes there…

Elisa Bloch is a French sculptor born in Breslau on 25 January 1848, trained in Paris where her family settles. She exhibits for the first time at the Salon in 1878 and subsequently presents several…

Émile Bloch is a German otologist born in Emmendingen, Baden, on 11 December 1847, graduate in medicine from Freiburg-im-Breisgau in 1871 after studies in Heidelberg, Würzburg and Vienna. Established…

Gustave Bloch is a French historian and archaeologist born in Fegersheim, Alsace, on 21 July 1848. A graduate of the École normale supérieure, he taught rhetoric at the lycée in Besançon and then…

Heinrich Bloch is an Austrian philologist born on 4 February 1854 in Herman-Mestec, Bohemia, son of Moses Bloch, president of the Jewish theological seminary of Budapest. Graduate in philosophy from…

Hermann (Ḥayyim) Bloch is a German writer born in Breslau on April 26, 1826 and died on November 19, 1896, grandson of Chief Rabbi Abraham Tiktin and nephew of Chief Rabbi Solomon Tiktin, from whom…

Josef Bloch is a virtuoso violinist and composer born in Budapest on 5 January 1862, trained at the National Academy of Music and, at sixteen, assistant professor at the National Conservatory, before…

Josef Samuel Bloch is an Austrian rabbi and deputy born in Dukla, Galicia, on November 20, 1850, trained in Talmud from childhood under Rabbi Josef Saul Nathanson of Lvov. Rabbi in Rendsburg,…

Julienne Bloch is a French educator and writer who died on November 12, 1868, eldest daughter of Simon Bloch, founder of the journal "L'Univers Israélite". Equipped with a teaching license at age…

Louis, or Leo, Bloch is a Swiss academic born in 1864, privatdozent of archaeology and mythology at the University of Zurich since 1896. He published notably « Der Kult und die Mysterien von Eleusis…

Ludwig Bloch is a German dramatist born in Berlin on December 6, 1859, son of theatrical publisher Eduard Bloch. Having entered his father's business in 1875, he subsequently traveled to Great…

Maurice Bloch is a French educator and writer born in Colmar, Alsace, on August 5, 1853, son of Joseph Bloch, director of the Jewish communal school of the city. Successful in the agrégation in…

Moïse Löb Bloch is the rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, born in Ronsperg, Bohemia, on 15 February 1815, descended from a lineage of renowned Talmudists. Trained by his uncle Wolf Löw…

Philip Bloch is a rabbi and author born in Prussia on May 30, 1841, trained at the University of Breslau then, under Frankel, Graetz and Jacob Bernays, at the Jewish theological seminary, where he…

Rosine Bloch is a French mezzo-soprano born in Paris in 1844, daughter of a merchant. Trained at the Conservatoire, where she received first prizes in singing and opera in 1865, she made her…

Salomon ben Ephraïm Blogg, or Bloch, is a German author from Neuwägen, in Hanover, died on 11 February 1858 after about forty-five years of literary activity. Hebrew teacher, he founded in 1827 the…

Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler is an American pianist, sister of Maurice Bloomfield, born in Bielitz, in Austrian Silesia, on July 16, 1866; her parents settle in Chicago in 1868, where she receives her…

Maurice Bloomfield is a professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, born in Bielitz, in Austrian Silesia, on February 23, 1855, who emigrated to America…

Karl Blosz is a German painter born in Mannheim on 24 November 1860, trained at the school of fine arts of Karlsruhe from 1880 to 1883 then student of K. Hoff and Von Lindenschmid at the Academy of…

Henri Georges Stephan Adolphe Opper de Blowitz is the special correspondent of the "Times" of London in Paris, born in Blowitz, Bohemia, on December 28, 1825, and died in Paris on January 18, 1903.…

rabbi (1813–1882)

Ephraïm Israel Blücher is an Austrian rabbi and author born on October 2, 1813 in Glocksdorf, Moravia, and died in Budapest on April 6, 1882. Hebrew tutor at the University of Lemberg then rabbi at…

Abraham Blum is a French commander born in 1823 and died in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1894. Wounded in the shoulder during the Crimean War in 1854, decorated with the order of the Medjidie by the sultan…

Ernest Blum is a French dramatist born in Paris on August 15, 1836, son of an actor, who produced his first play at eighteen, "Femme Qui Mord", at the Variétés. A prolific author of vaudevilles,…

Isaac August Blum is a French mathematician born in Paris in 1831 and died in that city on 5 January 1877. Trained at the École Polytechnique, he becomes a naval lieutenant before devoting himself to…

Julius Blum, called Blum Pasha, is an Austro-Egyptian financier born in Budapest in 1843. Director of the Austro-Egyptian Bank of Alexandria from 1869, he became in 1877 secretary of state at the…

Leopold Blumenberg is an American soldier born in the province of Brandenburg, in Prussia, on September 28, 1827, and died in Baltimore on August 12, 1876, twenty-first of a family of twenty-two…

Marc A. Blumenberg is an American music critic and editor born in Baltimore on May 21, 1851, educated in the city's public schools then at Loyola College. Music critic of the « Baltimore American »…

Aron Wolff Blumenfeld is a German composer born in Kurnik, in the province of Posen, on 29 February 1828. Settled in Berlin in 1846, where he studied with Rungenhagen before establishing himself as…

Berish Blumenfeld is a Galician Hebrew scholar active in the first half of the nineteenth century, one of the fortunate scholars who contributed to the dissemination of knowledge and neo-Hebrew…

Feitel (Fadeï) Blumenfeld is a Russian rabbi born in 1826 and died in Kherson on December 4, 1896. A graduate of the rabbinical college of Zhitomir, he served for nearly forty years as rabbi in…

Hermann Fadeïevitch Blumenfeld is a Russian jurist, son of Feitel, born in Kherson on September 2, 1861. Graduated in 1883 from the university of Novorossia in Odessa, where he receives a gold medal…

Ignatz (Isaac) Blumenfeld is an Austrian publisher and merchant born on March 25, 1812 in Brody, Galicia, and died on October 2, 1890 in Geneva. A well-to-do traveler passionate about Hebrew…

J. C. Blumenfeld is a Polish man of letters and revolutionary born around 1810 and died before 1840, one of the leaders of a group of young Poles engaged in the 1831 insurrection. Refugee in London…

Heinrich Blumenthal is a German industrialist and philanthropist born in Darmstadt, Hesse, on March 12, 1824, and died in the same city on March 27, 1901. Trained in mechanics in Vienna, Nuremberg…

Joseph Blumenthal is an American community notable born in Munich on December 1, 1834 and died in New York on March 2, 1901. Emigrated to the United States in 1839, he settled in California in 1854…

Mark Blumenthal is an American physician born on July 11, 1831 in Altenstadt, Bavaria, who emigrated to the United States with his parents in August 1839. A graduate in medicine from Columbia…

Nissen Blumenthal is a Russian ḥazan born in Jassy, Romania, in 1805, and died in Odessa on 9 February 1902. Trained for the rabbinate but endowed with an exceptional voice, he emigrated to Russia,…

Oskar Blumenthal is a German writer and playwright born in Berlin March 13, 1852, doctor of philosophy from Leipzig in 1872. Founder in 1873 of « Neuen Monatshefte für Dichtkunst und Kritik », he…

Eduard Boas is a German writer and traveler born in Landsberg-an-der-Warthe on January 1, 1815 and died in the same city in June 1853. Destined for commerce and sent to travel through Southern Europe…

Imar Boas is a German physician and medical author born in Exin, in the province of Posen, on March 28, 1858, graduated in medicine from the universities of Berlin, Halle and Leipzig in 1880.…

American Jewish historian and talmudist (1899–1968)

Abraham b. Moïse Bocara is the rabbi of the community of Livornese Jews in Tunis, where he dies in 1879. He is the author of « Ben Abraham », a work on difficult matters of religious law, published…

Alfred Bock is a German novelist born in Giessen, in Hesse-Darmstadt, on October 14, 1859, trained at the gymnasium and university of his native city, which he never left after traveling to Denmark,…

M. H. Bock is a German educator born in Magdeburg in 1784 and died in travel in Leipzig on April 10, 1816, one of the best Jewish pedagogues in Germany of his time; the private school he founded in…

Herman Bodek was a Galician Hebraist born in Brody on September 27, 1820 and died in Leipzig on August 19, 1880, son-in-law of S. L. Rapoport and from a respected family. Established in Leipzig as a…

Jacob Bodek of Lemberg is a Galician Hebraist who died in Lemberg in 1856, author of a pamphlet in two parts (Lemberg, 1837; Ofen, 1839) criticizing the works of Rapoport, Luzzatto and Reggio, then,…

Julius Bodenstein is a German landscape painter born in Berlin on 4 August 1847, trained at the Berlin Academy under Schütze and Hermann Schnee, then, from 1873, student of Ad. Lier in Munich. He is…

Frederike Bognar is a German actress born in Gotha February 16, 1840, daughter of a singer, initially destined for a musical career before turning to theatre. She made her debut in Zurich in 1856,…

Grigori Isaakovitch Bogrov is a Russian writer born on 13 March 1825 in Poltava and died on 10 May 1885 in Derevki, in the government of Minsk. Devoted exclusively to the Talmud until his marriage at…

Israël b. Joseph Böhmer is a neo-Hebraist and Russian lexicographer born around 1820 and died in Sloutsk, in the Minsk government, on April 4, 1860, son of Rabbi Joseph Böhmer (1796-1864), rabbi of…

Leone Bolaffio is an Italian jurist born in Padua on July 5, 1848, trained at the talmudic college, where S. D. Luzzatto was his master, then at the University of Padua. Lawyer in Venice for fifteen…

Luigi Filippo Bolaffio is an Italian journalist and publisher born in Venice in 1846 and died in Milan in 1901. Founder in Genoa of the literary review « La Favilla », he returns to Venice in 1866…

David Bonan is the rabbi of the Livorno community of Tunis, where he dies in 1850. His family financed after his death the publication of his works, including the collections of responsa « Nishal…

Fortunato de S. Bonaventura is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon active in the early nineteenth century, author of an attempt at a history of the literature of Jewish authors in…

Jonas Bondi is an American rabbi born in Dresde, Saxony, on July 9, 1804, and died in New York on March 11, 1874. Trained at the university of Prague, he presided over the synagogue of his native…

Mordecai (Marcus) Bondi is a German author active in Dresden in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, coauthor with his brother Simon Bondi of the "Or Ester," a Hebrew dictionary of Latin…

Philip (Jacob Koppel) Bondi is an Austrian rabbi born in Jinoschitz, Bohemia, on February 26, 1830. Entered the Prague gymnasium in 1844, he studied the Talmud under Raphaël Schulhof and Salomon J.…

Simon Bondi is a lexicographer of the Talmud established in Dresden, where he dies on December 20, 1816. With his brother Mordecai, he wrote the « Or Ester », a Hebrew dictionary of Latin words from…

Marc Borchard is a German physician and author born in Mecklenburg in 1808 and died in Paris on June 21, 1872. Holder of a medical degree from Halle, he settled in France as a hospital physician and…

Bruno Borchardt is a physicist and German author born in Bromberg on November 17, 1859, doctor of philosophy from Berlin, forced to resign from his teaching position because of his socialist…

Felix Borchardt is a German painter born in Berlin on March 7, 1857, trained at the Academy of Berlin and under Max Michael, who traveled extensively in Italy, France, Holland and Spain, where he…

Karl Wilhelm Borchardt is a German mathematician born on February 22, 1817 in Berlin and died in the same city on June 27, 1880. Trained in Königsberg from 1839 to 1843 under the influence of Jacobi,…

Lithuanian Jewish sculptor, court sculptor of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria where he founded the Royal Academy of Arts. Zionist after his meeting with Herzl, he founded in 1906 in Jerusalem the…

Moses Boris is a French colonel born in the department of Meurthe in 1808 and died in Paris on June 13, 1884. Entered at twenty-six years old to the Military School of Saint-Cyr, he distinguished…

Gustav Jacob Born is a German histologist and medical author born in Kempen, in the province of Posen, on April 22, 1851, trained at the universities of Breslau, Bonn, Strasbourg and Berlin,…

Arthur Bornstein is a German author born in Breslau on March 23, 1867, trained in Breslau, Berlin, and Bern, certified by the Berlin state examination in 1888; by profession a dental surgeon, he also…

Paul Bornstein is a German author born in Berlin on April 8, 1868, doctor of philosophy from the university of his native city. His first published work, the « Memoiren des Cagliostro » (Berlin,…

Samuel Hyman Borofsky was born in Wolkovyshki, in the government of Souvalki, in Russian Poland, in April 1865, educated at the Jews' Free School in Manchester after his arrival in England in 1874,…

Isidor Borowski is a soldier under Bolívar then general in the service of Persia, born in Warsaw in 1803 and killed at the siege of Hérat in 1837, a Polish Jew raised in the United States. After…

Belarusian rabbi

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Wolf Boskovitz is the first rabbi of the congregation of Budapest, died in 1818. Reputed Talmudist, he settled in 1793 as rabbi in Pest, where the Jewish community had been renting a prayer room…

Yom-Ṭob Lipman ha-Cohen Boslanski, called R. Lipélé Mirer, was a Russian rabbi born in 1824 and died in Mir, in the government of Grodno, on December 26, 1892. Rabbi in Khaslavitch in his youth, he…

Jacob Brafmann is a Jew converted to Christianity, born in Russia and died in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, appointed professor of Hebrew at the Minsk seminary and entrusted by the Holy…

Otto Brahm, born Abrahamsohn, is a German drama critic and theater director born in Hamburg on February 5, 1856, trained in philosophy, German philology and art history at Berlin, Heidelberg and…

Ruben Brainin is a Hebrew publicist and biographer born in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century, residing in Berlin. Contributor to several Hebrew periodicals, he published in 1895 a…

Simon Brainin is a Russian physician born in Riga, Livonia, on July 15, 1854, trained at the universities of Dorpat and Berlin, physician of the Jewish community of Riga and one of the leaders of its…

Leo Bramson is a Russian jurist and writer born in Kovno on April 17, 1869, graduated in law from Moscow University. Active in several Jewish educational and charitable societies in Saint Petersburg,…

Baruch Juda ha-Lévi Brandeis is a rabbi and Bohemian author active in Prague, as dayyan, in the second half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, son of Bezaleel Brandeis,…

Frederic Brandeis is a musician born in Vienna on 5 July 1832 and died in New York on 14 May 1899, trained in piano and composition at the University of Vienna. After the 1848 revolution ruined his…

Carl Eduard Cohen Brandes, known as Eduard Brandes, is a Danish writer and politician born in Copenhagen on 21 October 1847, brother of Georg Brandes. After studying oriental and comparative…

Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes is a Danish economist born in Copenhagen on February 1, 1844, and died in the same city on August 6, 1892, brother of critic Georg Brandes and writer Eduard Brandes.…

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes is a Danish writer and critic born in Copenhagen on February 4, 1842, graduated in 1859. Laureate of the university's gold medal for his essay on the idea of fate in…

Ludvig Israel Brandes is a Danish physician born in Copenhagen on October 26, 1821 and died in the same city on September 17, 1894. Entered the University of Copenhagen in 1839, graduated in medicine…

Marthe Brandès, whose real name is Marthe-Joséphine Brunschwig, is a French actress born in Paris on January 31, 1862, trained at the Conservatory under Gustave Worms. Engaged in 1884 at the Théâtre…

Jacob Émile Édouard Brandon is a French genre painter born in Paris on July 3, 1831, student of Picot, Montfort and Corot, admitted to the École des beaux-arts on April 5, 1849. He exhibited…

Mordecai David Brandstädter is a Galician novelist born on February 14, 1844 in Brzesko, married at fourteen and settled with his in-laws in Tarnów, where he entered business at age twenty. His true…

Salomon Brann is a German rabbi born in Rawitsch on November 3, 1814, trained at the yeshiva of Lissa and then at the University of Berlin; elected in 1839 to the rabbinical council of his native…

Moritz Brasch was a German philosopher and man of letters born in Zempelburg, in West Prussia, on August 18, 1843, and died in Leipzig on September 14, 1895. Educated at the universities of Berlin,…

Alexandre Braudo is a Russian author born in 1864, reviewer for Russian history journals at Saint Petersburg University from 1889 to 1892, translator of historical sources such as the « Tragoedia…

Josef Braun is an Austrian journalist, dramatist and librettist born in Budapest on May 5, 1840. He abandoned in 1860 his medical studies in Vienna for journalism, collaborated with several Viennese…

Solomon Braun is a French artillery lieutenant born in Paris in 1868 and died in Togbao, Sudan, in 1899. Son of a poor peddler who, noticing his gifts, made great sacrifices to give him a good…

Michel Bréal was a French philologist born of French parents in Landau, in the Rhine Palatinate, on March 26, 1832. Trained at the École normale and in Berlin under Albrecht Weber and Franz Bopp,…

Adolphe Brecher is an Austrian physician born in Prossnitz, in Moravia, in 1831, and died in Olmütz on 13 April 1894, son of physician Gédéon Brecher. Trained at the University of Prague, first in…

Eliezer b. Moses Bregman is a Russian financier and philanthropist born in Indoura (Amdour), government of Grodno, in 1826, and died in Teplitz, Bohemia, on 3 September 1896. A prominent businessman…

Édouard Breier is an Austrian writer born in Varasdin, in Croatia, on 3 November 1811, and died in Zaiwitz, near Znaïm, in Moravia, on 3 June 1886. His first novel, "Der Fluch des Rabbi," published…

Max Breitenstein is an Austrian writer and translator born in Iglau, Moravia, on November 10, 1855. Educated at the gymnasium of his native city then at the University of Vienna, he turned to…

Marcus Heymann Breslau is an author and journalist born in Breslau, Germany, and died in London on 14 May 1864. Left for London at a young age, where he teaches Hebrew and serves a synagogue, he…

Hermann Breslauer is an Austrian neuropathist born in Duschnik, Bohemia, on November 10, 1835. Trained at the gymnasium of Pilsen then at the university of Vienna, he obtained his doctorate in…

Max Breslauer is a German chemist born in Trebnitz, in Prussian Silesia, on June 19, 1856, graduated in philosophy from the universities of Leipzig, Heidelberg and Breslau. Appointed in 1880 judicial…

Heinrich Bresnitz is an Austrian author and journalist born in Czernowitz, Bucovina, in 1844. He founded in Vienna in 1867 the periodical 'Der Osten', then in 1869 the political newspaper 'Der…

Harry Bresslau is a German historian born in Dannenberg, in Hanover, on 22 March 1848. He studied history at Göttingen from 1866 to 1869, taught in Berlin as a privatdozent, became assistant…

Mendel ben Hayyim Juda Bresslau is a bookseller of Breslau who died in 1829, collaborator of the periodical « Ha-Méassef » and author of an allegorical ethical dialogue, « Yaldout ou-Vaharout »…

Ludwig Brieger is a German physician and medical writer born in Glatz, in Prussian Silesia, on July 26, 1849. Graduated in medicine from the University of Strasbourg in 1875, he practiced in Berlin…

John Bright is an English statesman and orator born in Greenbank on November 16, 1811 and died in Rochdale on March 27, 1889; the idea that his mother, Martha Jacobs, would have been Jewish is…

Azriel Brill is a rabbi and Hungarian author of the first half of the nineteenth century, dayyan in Pest. He wrote « Hadrat Kodech », containing the Mishnaic treatises Rosh ha-Shanah and Yoma with…

Joseph Brill, known as « Ayov », was a Russian Hebrew educator and writer born in Gorki, near Mogilev, on the Dnepr, in 1839. Trained at the yeshivot of Shklov and Vitebsk, he settled in Minsk, where…

Josef B. Brociner is president of the Union of Hebrew communities of Romania, born in Jassy in October 1846. He co-founds the Unimea Israelita, settles in 1867 as a merchant in Galatz, and becomes in…

Abraham b. Chalom Broda is a Russian rabbinic author born in Wilna in the early nineteenth century and died in that city after 1860, son of R. Chalom b. Aaron, who died in 1805 while still young and…

Benjamin b. Aaron Broda is a Lithuanian rabbi and talmudist who died on September 1, 1818 in Grodno, the most renowned of the five sons of the talmudist Aaron Broda, rabbi of Kalvarien, and direct…

Adolph Brodsky is a Russian violinist born in Taganrog on 21 March 1851; he performs in concert from the age of nine in Odessa. Trained by professor Helmesberger in Vienna, he is appointed in 1875…

Sándor Bródy is a Hungarian writer and journalist born in Erlau in 1863, who devoted himself entirely to literature after his studies; editor of the « Erdélyi Hiradó » from 1888 to 1890, he…

Sigmund Bródy was a Hungarian journalist and member of the Upper House of Parliament, born on November 15, 1840 in Miskolcz. He began his career in journalism early, publishing his first editorial in…

Robert Browning is an English poet born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1812, and died in Venice December 12, 1889. His somewhat Jewish appearance and his sympathy for the Jews long led to a belief in…

Isaac Broydé is a Russian orientalist born in Porozowo, government of Grodno, on February 23, 1867. He left in 1883 for Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne, obtained his diploma from the School…

Abraham Jacob Bruck is a Russian educator, author of works in Hebrew and Russian, born in the district of Rossienny in 1820 and died in Yekaterinoslav in 1893. Trained at the yeshiva of Volozhin, he…

Jacob Bruck is a Hungarian physician and author born in Pápa on October 20, 1845 and died in Budapest in 1901, brother of Abraham Jacob Bruck. Graduated in medicine from the University of Budapest in…

Julius Bruck is a German dentist and medical author born in Breslau on October 6, 1840 and died in that city on April 20, 1902. Trained in dental medicine at the universities of Breslau, Berlin,…

Lajos Bruck is a Hungarian painter born in Pápa, in the county of Veszprém, in November 1846. Destined for commerce by his father, he turned early to drawing and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in…

Max Bruck is a Hungarian painter born in Budapest in 1863, brother of Lajos Bruck. Graduated from the schools of his native city, where he already showed a taste for drawing, he continued his studies…

Henrietta Bruckman is the founder of the first Jewish women's lodge in America, born in Bohemia in April 1810 and died in New York in April 1888. Wife of Dr. Philip Bruckman, she came with him to the…

Ignaz Brüll is an Austrian composer born in Prossnitz, Moravia, on November 7, 1846; his family settled in Vienna in 1848, where he became a student of Epstein, Rufinatscha and Dessoff. In 1861,…

Jakob Brüll is an Austrian Talmudist and author born in Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia, on November 16, 1812, and died in Kojetein on November 29, 1889. Trained in the yeshivot of Bonyhád, Pressburg and…

Nehemia Brüll is a rabbi and scholar born on March 16, 1843 in Neu-Raussnitz, in Moravia, and died on February 5, 1891 in Frankfurt-am-Main, son of the Talmudist Jakob Brüll. Trained in the Talmud by…

Arnold William Brunner is an American architect, son of William Brunner and Isabelle Solomon, born in New York on September 25, 1857. Trained in Manchester and then in New York, graduate of the…

Sebastian Brunner is an Austrian Catholic theologian, editor and anti-Jewish writer, born on December 10, 1814 in Vienna and died on November 26, 1893 in Währing. Ordained priest in 1838, he is…

historien de l'art, écrivain et éditeur allemand (1888-1968)

German author (1881–1956)

Born Bruno Schlesinger in Berlin in 1876, he adopted the stage name « Walter » on the advice of colleagues (Mahler helped him choose it). Close to Gustav Mahler, he conducted the premieres of the…

Léon Lévy Brunswick is a French dramatist born in Paris on April 20, 1805 and died in Le Havre on April 29, 1859, a privileged collaborator of Ad. de Leuven, with whom he writes, as well as with…

Juda Löb ben David Brutzkus is a Russian writer born in 1870 in Polangen, governorate of Courland. Trained at the gymnasium and the University of Moscow, from which his family was expelled in 1892,…

Salomon Buber is a Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew texts, born in Lemberg on February 2, 1827, son of Isaiah Abraham Buber. Married young, he enters business and becomes commercial councillor…

Charles Adolphus Buchheim is a professor of German language and literature at King's College London, born in Moravia in 1828 and died in London on June 4, 1900. A graduate of the University of…

P. Buchholz is a German rabbi born on October 2, 1837 and died in Emden, in Hanover, on September 20, 1892. Rabbi of Märkisch-Friedland from 1863 to 1867, then of Stargard in Pomerania, he became in…

Alexander Büchler was born in Fülek, Hungary, in 1869, son of rabbi talmudist Phinehas Büchler of Moór. Trained at the gymnasium of Székesfehérvár then at the university and seminary of Budapest, he…

Abraham Cohen Bucuresteanu is a Romanian publicist born in Bucharest in 1840 and died in that city on January 24, 1877. Passionate about theater from his youth, he finally devoted himself to commerce…

Max Büdinger is an Austrian historian born on April 1, 1828 in Cassel, Germany, and died in Vienna on February 23, 1902. He studied history at Marburg, Bonn and Berlin from 1847 to 1851, became…

Hugo Bürger, known under the pen name Lubliner, is a German dramatist born in Breslau on April 22, 1846. Arriving in Berlin at age twelve, he had his first one-act comedy performed at seventeen, «…

Isidor Bush is a man of letters, publicist and vintner born in Prague on January 15, 1822 and died in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 5, 1898, great-great-grandson of Israël Hönig, first Jew ennobled…

William Bertrand Busnach is a French dramatist born in Paris on March 7, 1832, nephew of composer Fromental Halévy; his father, an Algerian Jew who became a naturalized Italian under the Deys, chief…

Lämmlein Buttenwieser is a German Talmudist and linguist born in Wassertrüdingen, Bavaria, on January 16, 1825, and died in New York on September 23, 1901, from a family of German rabbis. Trained at…

Émile Byk is an Austrian lawyer and deputy born on January 14, 1845 in Janow, near Trembowla, in Galicia. Elected in 1885 president of the charity committee of the Cultusrath of Lemberg, he also…

German rabbi

Abraham Cahan is a novelist and labor union leader of Russian-American origin born in Podberejie, government of Wilna, on July 7, 1860. His Orthodox family settles in Wilna in 1866; attracted to…

Albert Cahen is a French composer born in Paris on January 8, 1846, student of César Franck for composition and of Mme Szarvady for piano. He became known through « Jean le Précurseur », a biblical…

Coralie Cahen is a French philanthropist born in Nancy in 1832 and died in Paris 12 March 1899, wife of Mayer Cahen, chief physician of the North Company. Having lost her husband and only daughter…

Isidore Cahen is a French scholar and journalist born in Paris in 1826 and died in that city on March 6, 1902. Graduate of the Charlemagne College, he entered the Normal School in philosophy, where…

Arnold Cahn is a German physician born in Worms on April 11, 1858. After gymnasium, he studies medicine at the University of Strasbourg, from which he graduates in 1881; assistant at the university…

David Léon Cahun is a French orientalist and writer born on June 23, 1841 in Haguenau, Alsace, and died in Paris on March 30, 1900. Originally destined for a military career, he devotes himself to…

German woman of letters and activist for women's voting rights, born in Arolsen in 1832 and died in Cassel in 1887. She directed a boarding school for poor girls in Cassel and was one of the founding…

Belgian politician

French Impressionist painter born in the Danish West Indies, a paternal figure of the movement. He influenced Cézanne and Gauguin.

Born in Colmar, nephew and son-in-law of the physician Germain Sée. Deputy then Councillor of State, he filed in 1878 the bill which, enacted on 21 December 1880 (« Camille Sée law »), established…

Born in a bourgeois Jewish family of Ivrea (father Salvador Benedetto, mother Elvira Sacerdoti, from Modena), he founded in 1896 "Ing. C. Olivetti & Co." and launched in 1908-1909 the first Italian…

Hebrew poet who lived in Warsaw in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of an elegy on the death of Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, published in Warsaw in 1826, as well as…

German physician and medical author, born in Regensburg in 1807 and died in Erlangen in 1850. He studied in Vienna and then in Würzburg under Schönlein, where he obtained his doctorate in 1831,…

German mathematician, born in Saint Petersburg in 1845. He entered the University of Zurich in 1862, then studied in Berlin until 1867, where he received his doctorate; admitted as privat-docent at…

American lawyer and politician, born in New York in 1854, grandson of Agil Hanau, cantor of the synagogue of Dukes Place in London. Member of the New York State Assembly in 1887 then State Senator…

German historian of mathematics, born in Mannheim in 1829, from a family that came from Portugal via Holland. He studied at Heidelberg from 1848 and then at Göttingen, obtained his doctorate at…

French publicist and historian, born in Marseille in 1802 and died in Paris in 1872. Among his numerous historical works, he wrote a history of the Jews, the Philosophical History of the Jews from…

Jewish traveler born in Salonica. On the occasion of a business trip to Yemen in 1874, he studied the situation of Jews in the region and published in Judeo-Spanish an account of his journey, Zikron…

French poet, born in Marseille in 1826 and died in 1891. A prolific author, he published between 1852 and 1887 numerous collections of poems and theatrical pieces in verse, notably « Premières Lueurs…