XIXth century CE

Italian Jewish philosopher of science, founder and editor of the international review "Scientia".

Born in Ancona on July 13, 1811, died in Milan on March 1, 1875. Italian literary critic, journalist, and translator, he directed the "Biblioteca rara" (Daelli) and the "Biblioteca classica…

Albert Eulenburg was a German neuropathologist and electrotherapist, born on August 10, 1840 in Berlin, son of the physician Moritz Michael Eulenburg. Doctor in 1861, he became in 1874 professor at…

Samuel Evans, called 'Young Dutch Sam,' was an English pugilist born in London January 30, 1801 and died of tuberculosis November 4, 1843. He made his ring debut July 5, 1825 by beating Ned Stockman,…

Born Makhlouf Évariste Lévi in a North African Jewish family from Constantine, he became one of the founders of French Islamic studies and the first director of the Institute of Islamic Studies in…

Ferdinand Christophe Ewald was an English clergyman, born near Bamberg, in Bavaria, in 1802, and died at Norwood, London, on August 9, 1874. Entering in 1829 into the service of the London Society…

Georg Heinrich August Ewald was a German biblicist, born in Göttingen on 16 November 1803 and died in the same city on 4 May 1875. Professor at Göttingen from 1827, he was dismissed in 1837 for…

Leopold Ewer was a German physician born on January 4, 1849 in Anklam, Pomerania. He studied from 1868 to 1873 at the University of Berlin, where he earned his doctorate, and after serving as an…

Joseph Ezekiel, Indian Hebraist, was one of the leaders of the Beni-Israël community of Bombay, where he was born in 1834. Teaching from 1856 at the David Sassoon Benevolent Institution, of which he…

Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American sculptor, was born in Richmond, Virginia, on October 28, 1844 ; former Confederate soldier trained at the Virginia Military Institute, he turned to art and studied…

Member of the Jewish Gabbai family of Baghdad, he was appointed ṣarrāf bāshī (chief banker) to the governor and exercised considerable influence. Following the return to favor of the Armenian…

Jacob Ezekiel was born in Philadelphia on June 28, 1812 and died on May 16, 1899. Established in Richmond, Virginia, he obtained in 1845 the repeal of an ordinance severely penalizing the violation…

Latvian politician and physician of Jewish origin (1861-1917)

Born in Aleppo in 1860, in an Anzarut family settled in that city for, according to community sources, nearly four centuries. As a child, he is taken to Manchester where the family founds a company…

rabbin (1881–1970)

Chief Rabbi of Baghdad (1923-1926) and printer, opened a modern Hebrew press.

Iraqi politician

Rabbi, scholar, bookseller, editor and writer

German rabbi

Eduard Falk was a German publicist, graduate of the University of Berlin in 1858, died in Paris on July 7, 1863, crushed by an omnibus. Entered state service as assessor, he pursued concurrently a…

Max Falk was a Hungarian statesman and journalist, born in Budapest on October 7, 1828. He was the first translator into German of the poet Petöfi (1843), participated in the student legion during…

Ferdinand Falkson was a German physician and publicist, born in Königsberg on August 20, 1820 and died in the same city on August 31, 1900. A medical graduate in 1843, he was appointed in 1844 as…

Russian politician 1859-1937

Dutch soprano and pianist

Romanian American activist

Born into a prosperous Jewish family of Königsberg; in 1831 her father, merchant David Markus, abandoned his Jewish patronym for the name Lewald, and Fanny converted to Protestantism. She lived by…

écrivain juif de langue allemande

Isaac Farḥi, dayyan and almoner of Jerusalem, was born in Safed and died in Jerusalem on May 11, 1853. Around 1840, he was sent to Europe by the rabbinate of Jerusalem to collect donations for the…

Joseph Shabbethai Farḥi, talmudist and cabalist, was born in Jerusalem around 1802 and died in Livorno, Italy, in 1882. Settled in Livorno around 1842, where he believed, as a convinced cabalist, in…

Anglo-Jewish novelist born in London in 1833 and died in the same city on July 23, 1903, educated in private schools. He emigrated to New Zealand, where he became director and part-owner of the…

Hungarian journalist born in Szilágy Somlyó on August 1, 1842, trained at the gymnasium of Kolozsvár and in law at Budapest. He collaborated with several Hungarian reviews, wrote patriotic poems and…

Hungarian mathematician and physicist born in Puszta Sárosd on 28 March 1847, trained at the Györ gymnasium then in law and philosophy in Budapest. After teaching in Székesfehérvár, he becomes…

Lord Mayor of London (1896-97), second son of Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, born in 1840. Trained at University College School then in Berlin and Paris, he entered his father's business before…

Hungarian jurist born in Kecskemé in 1842. Doctor of law in 1870, he becomes a few years later privat-docent at the University of Budapest, then professor of criminal law in 1886, a position he still…

Italian jurist

Born in Ancona in 1841, son of Beniamino Consolo, died in Florence in 1906. Student of Fétis in Brussels and Liszt for composition, he was a virtuoso violinist before devoting himself, in Florence,…

Argentine entrepreneur and director

Industrialist (founder of Robinetterie Riunite in Milan), naval officer nicknamed « il Comandante », he participated in the founding of Confindustria. President of the Milan Jewish Community…

Italian mathematician born in Livorno into a Jewish Sephardic family of Portuguese descent; first to establish the classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry. Professor in Bologna…

German rabbi and author born in Schlichtingsheim, Silesia, on 18 June 1827, trained in Rawitsch then in Dresden under W. Landau and Zacharias Fränkel, before studying in Berlin and Halle, where he…

Russian financier and philanthropist born in Yurburg, near Kovno, in 1821, died in Königsberg, in Prussia, on May 21, 1893. Settled in Königsberg from 1866 onwards, he organized, during the…

Russian scholar born in Damachev, near Brest-Litovsk, on December 6, 1821, died in the same city on January 20, 1903. After long years of Talmudic study, he worked as a foreman for a merchant in…

Merchant and German author who died on July 7, 1900 in London, where he had resided for many years. He devoted part of his literary activity to translating English classics into German, including…

Hungarian journalist born in Kecskemét on November 19, 1854, trained in law at Berlin and Leipzig, where he founded the critical review 'Deutsche Reichslaterne.' He settled in Budapest in 1884 and…

Author and journalist born in Hungary in 1861. He left for England in 1881 and joined the editorial staff of the society journal « Life », of which he became owner and editor-in-chief in 1903; he sat…

Hungarian actor and theatre director born in Spácza in 1849. He makes his debut in 1867 at the Josefstädter Theater in Vienna, before being engaged in 1872 by Heinrich Laube at the Stadttheater in…

Romanian artist born in Botuschany on June 21, 1871, trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts under Delaunay, Bonnat, and Gérôme. He became known as a portraitist, painting notably Zadoc Kahn and…

Polish author born in Warsaw in 1868, he published from 1886 onwards works advocating the assimilation of Jews. Secretary of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in Kraków (1891-94), he founded the journal…

German dramatist born in Munich on May 22, 1802, and died in Vienna on March 26, 1882, one of the most prolific authors of farces and comedies in Germany. Apprentice saddler then shoemaker, he…

Hungarian physician born in Lovasberény on March 23, 1861, trained in medicine at the University of Budapest, where he becomes privatdocent of urogenital diseases in 1889. His work on these diseases,…

Composer, pianist and editor of early music, born in Venice and died in Florence. He taught theory at the Istituto Reale Luigi Cherubini in Florence from 1910 and was the pianist of the Trio…

Lawyer from Ferrara, Felice Ravenna founded in 1901 in Ferrara the Federazione Sionistica Italiana, which he chaired and directed for about twenty years. He hosted Theodor Herzl at his home in 1904…

Born Froim-Zelig Aderca in a Jewish family (the merchant Avram Adercu and Debora Perlmutter), in Puiești. Member of the modernist circle Sburătorul, he wrote psychological novels, science fiction and…

German-American academic, professor of political and social ethics.

German Jewish physicist (1856-1933), died by suicide

holocaust victim, b. 1898-08-15

German pedagogue

German rabbi

German mathematician (1868-1942)

German Romantic composer, grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, author of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He revived the work of Bach.

Born in Algiers in 1871, he was one of the first operators of the Lumière brothers, sent to project and film in the United States (1896) and then around the world (funeral of Queen Victoria,…

German rabbi

Austrian author of Hungarian culture (1869-1945)

German rabbi

Born in Buenos Aires into a Jewish family (father Hermann Weil, wealthy grain merchant; mother Rosa, also Jewish). Doctor of political science (dissertation on socialization), he financed in 1923,…

Austrian economist born in Horitz, Bohemia, on February 22, 1830, educated in commerce in Vienna before devoting himself to historical and economic studies. He published notably "Die Arbeiter und die…

French actress born in Lyon in 1829, died in Eaux-Bonnes on June 19, 1854. Trained by her sister Rachel, she made her debut at fourteen at the Odéon in the role of Chimène in the « Cid », before…

French actress, elder sister of Elisa-Rachel Félix (Rachel), born near Frankfurt-am-Main on 2 February 1819, died on 12 January 1877. After her debut as a singer in the cafés of Lyon and Paris, she…

Hungarian painter born in Kecskemét on April 28, 1867, son of Rabbi J. H. Fischmann. First noticed as a caricaturist, he studied law at the University of Budapest before abandoning it after two years…

Head of the stenography bureau of the Hungarian Parliament, born in Zala-Egerszeg in 1837, trained in Székesfehérvár then in Budapest. He adapted the stenographic system of Stolze to the Hungarian…

Russian author born in Jitomir in 1859, died in Saint Petersburg in 1895. After studying law at the University of Saint Petersburg, he taught at the Jewish school in the city until his health forced…

Austro-Czech industrialist

compositeur, artiste lyrique et professeur de chant, musicographe

German bacteriologist, founder of this discipline (1828-1898)

Born in Breslau to a Jewish family (patronym of origin Lassal), son of a silk merchant. Hegelian philosopher and polemicist, he founded in 1863 in Leipzig the General Association of German Workers…

German rabbi and author (1839-1921)

Hungarian rabbi

Hungarian banker, economist (1858–1936)

Spanish orientalist, professor at the University of Madrid and member of the Academia de la Historia, son-in-law of the historian José Amador de los Ríos. His interest in the history and literature…

Italian musicologist and composer of Jewish origin, trained at the Liceo musicale « Padre Martini » in Bologna. Specialist in medieval music, he gave in 1935 the first modern edition of the Laudario…

Jewish teacher and reformer of Livorno, died in 1830. Admirer of the first Napoleon, under whom he held office, he believed that the age of universal brotherhood had arrived and that Jews should…

Austrian jurist and author born in Vienna on August 26, 1845, trained at the gymnasium and then at the university of the city. Appointed judge to the Landesgericht in 1868, he resigned in 1870 and…

Hungarian ophthalmologist born in Szobotiszt on August 18, 1844, doctor of medicine from the University of Vienna in 1872. Assistant at the ophthalmological clinic of the University of Klausenburg in…

French painter born in Paris on 30 August 1826 and died in the same city on 7 February 1895. First a history painter, he turns to small genre scenes in the style of Meissonier, although a pupil of…

Mathematician, linguist and editor born in Wirballen, in Russia, in 1816, died in London on 22 July 1872. Emigrated to London in 1839, he first taught in a Jewish school while publishing his first…

German physician and poet born in Breslau on 10 November 1828 and died in the same city on 31 July 1874, doctorate in medicine in 1850, the year he settled as a physician in Breslau; he became in…

Russian-American chess player born on 28 April 1871 in Vladislavovo, in the government of Suwałki, in Russian Poland, emigrated to the United States in 1887. During a tournament held in New York in…

Italian Assyrologist born in Correggio in 1847, died in Florence in 1872. While studying law at the University of Bologna, he devoted himself to languages, particularly Assyrian, on which he taught…

Italian patriot and parliamentarian born in Rivarolo Fuori, in the province of Mantua, in 1815, died on December 17, 1886. He joined the secret organization Giovane Italia in 1834, met Mazzini in…

Italian jurist born in Florence in 1830, admitted to the bar in 1856 after studying law in Pisa, where he was for some time the associate of Mari. Professor of political economy and statistics at the…

Rabbi and historian active in New York in the mid-19th century, assistant to Dr. Raphall at the Shearith Israel congregation; he is believed to have died in the Netherlands in the last quarter of the…

Hungarian rabbi

Austrian rabbi and author born in Budikau, in Bohemia, on January 12, 1821, doctor of philosophy from the University of Prague in 1850, rabbi of several small communities in the Eger district between…

Austrian writer and politician born in Alt-Ofen, Hungary, on December 8, 1816, died in Emmersdorf, near Klagenfurt, on March 23, 1893. Physician at Vienna's hospital, he was one of the leaders of the…

Austrian pianist and composer, uncle of Robert Fischhof, born on April 4, 1804 in Butschowitz, Moravia, died in Vienna on June 28, 1857. Trained from 1813 at the Brünn lyceum then, in Vienna, in…

Austrian musician born in Vienna on October 31, 1857. A child prodigy already performing in public at seven, he studied at the Vienna Conservatory under Anton Door for piano and under Fuchs, Krenn…

Austrian author established in Lemberg, died in 1873. He published notably the collection of Hebrew poems « Eshkol 'Anabim » (Lemberg, 1827), a critique of the philological and archaeological works…

American physician and anthropologist born on August 16, 1872 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, in Russia, emigrated to the United States in 1889; graduate of New York University in 1897, he practices at Beth…

Rabbi

Yiddish playwright and novelist (Ganovim), performed in Europe and America.

German physician born in Lyck, East Prussia, on June 4, 1860, trained in Berlin and Heidelberg, doctor of medicine of Berlin in 1883, the year he established himself there as a specialist physician…

Austrian architect born in Prossnitz, Moravia, on March 29, 1841, trained at the Polytechnic School and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Van der Nüll, Storck, Roesner and Friedrich…

Austrian physician born in Vienna on 5 August 1846, died in the same city on 22 October 1891, doctorate in medicine from Vienna in 1870. Prosector at the Institute of Anatomy in Vienna under…

American merchant, mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, born in Riverside, Ohio, on June 8, 1872. Member of the staff of Governor McKinley, later President of the United States, as well as of Governors…

German merchant born in Rausnitz, Moravia, died in that same town on 17 December 1839, collaborator of « Bikkure ha-'Ittim » and translator into Hebrew of several writings of Philo, including « Quis…

American physician and pathologist born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 25, 1863, doctor of medicine from the University of Louisville, subsequently trained at Johns Hopkins, Strasbourg, and…

Russian physician and scholar born around 1850, died in 1885 in Kishinev, where he had settled a few years earlier, known for his writings in Russian on the Jewish question. From the age of twenty,…

Born in Livorno in 1895, only daughter of a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family (the Aghib), raised between Tuscany and Paris. She left an autobiographical account ("La nostra vita con Ezio e ricordi di…

philanthrope, femme d'affaires et érudite juive

American politician (1866-1948)

Italian pathologist born in Sabbionetta on 26 January 1848, trained at the Milan lycée and in medicine at Pavia, with advanced courses at Turin and Heidelberg. Student of Rizzozero in pathological…

Hungarian philanthropist died in Budapest on May 31, 1874. Shortly before his death, he sent anonymously to the Jewish community of Budapest a donation intended for the founding of an orphanage,…

Hungarian jurist born in Nagy Mihály on January 27, 1862, trained in law at Budapest, admitted to the bar in 1886, and appointed district judge in Budapest in 1890 ; in 1895, he entered the Ministry…

Austrian author born in Prague on 28 June 1805, died on 23 August 1890 in Karolinenthal, a suburb of Prague, where he directed a school. He is the author of « Alterthümer der Prager Josefstadt »…

Austrian writer and poetess born in Agram on September 21, 1846, died in Vienna on October 19, 1889. Settled in Vienna in 1867, she there founded the Society of Women Writers and Artists, of which…

Critic, journalist and Italian dramatist born in Trieste on October 5, 1828, died in Milan in 1895, baptized as a child and trained in Padua. Exiled to Trieste in 1848 for having written the drama «…

French politician born in Paris on 18 December 1834, died in Moulins on 8 April 1881. Elected Deputy for Allier on 1 June 1863, favorable to the Empire, he resigned in 1868 and then failed against…

French politician and author born in Paris on February 19, 1836, died in Asnières on August 27, 1884. Elected deputy of Basses-Pyrénées on June 6, 1869, he serves in the Éclaireurs de la Seine during…

Yiddish poetess and short-story writer, pioneer of the Yiddish sonnet.

Italian jurist and historian born in Florence on July 10, 1840, trained at the Marseille lycée then in law at Pisa, admitted to the bar in 1863 before settling in Florence. Drama critic for « La…

Italian deputy born in Florence in 1847, trained in law at Pisa. With deputy Sidney Sonnino, he undertook a journey to Sicily to study the social, political, and economic conditions of the island,…

rabbi and musicologist, Anglo-Australian

Turkish rabbinic author born in 1833 in Constantinople, died in the same city in 1903. He publishes two works in Hebrew: the « Yismaḥ Leb » (2 vol., Salonica, 1867-83), a collection of responsa and…

Austrian actress born in Bösing, near Pressburg, on 11 October 1852. She made her debut in 1871 at the Viktoria Theater in Berlin, joined in 1872 the Stadttheater in Vienna then, in 1875, the…

American lawyer, member of the House of Representatives, born in Peoria, Illinois, on February 23, 1852, educated in public schools, at Washington University in Saint-Louis and then at Harvard Law…

British author and novelist born Julia Davis in Dublin on July 30, 1864, trained by Madame Paul Lafargue, daughter of Karl Marx. Under the pseudonym « Frank Danby », she published in 1887 her first…

German physician born on 10 March 1848 in Frankfurt an der Oder, trained at the gymnasium of his native city and then at the University of Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1870.…

Austrian physician born in Vienna on November 9, 1857, doctor of medicine in 1880, entered the Austrian military medical corps. Surgeon of the Teutonic Knights, he took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian…

Russian scholar active in Warsaw in the first half of the nineteenth century, who traveled in Germany and England. He publishes the « Teru'at Melek », on patriotism and the duty of loyalty, with a…

German physician born in Breslau on 5 May 1844, trained in medicine in Berlin, Vienna and Breslau, doctor of medicine in 1866. He participated in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 then, as an assistant…

German writer born in Leipzig on January 24, 1868, trained at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin as well as in England, doctorate in philosophy in 1889. Author of most of the literary articles in…

German physician born on May 23, 1806 in Berlin, died in the same city on July 6, 1872, graduated from Berlin University in 1830, the year he established himself there as a physician specializing in…

Austrian physician and chemist born in Cracow on May 22, 1868, trained at the gymnasium of Graz then in medicine in Prague, Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Vienna, where he obtains his diploma in 1892.…

German theologian born in Prague on September 30, 1801, died in Breslau on February 13, 1875, founder of the school of historical Judaism, which combines freedom of inquiry and authority of…

German Deputy born in Obbach, in Bavaria, on 8 June 1827, died in Nuremberg on 18 July 1889. Engaged in political agitation in 1848 in Würzburg, he practiced law in Nuremberg from 1861, was elected…

German physicist born in Brunswick on June 29, 1801, died in Dresden on January 14, 1869, trained at the gymnasiums of Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick then at the University of Berlin, where he obtained…

Consul of the United States in Berne, Switzerland, born on July 1, 1851 in Lübeck, Germany, educated in the public schools of his native city and instructed in Hebrew by the local rabbi. He entered…

German teacher and writer, son of Rabbi Moses Frankfurter, born in Herdorf on March 15, 1801, died August 13, 1867. Becoming in 1822 teacher at the Israelitische Volksschule of Nordstetten, in…

German preacher, brother of Bernhard Frankfurter, born in Oberdorf on February 13, 1810, died on April 13, 1866, doctor of philosophy from the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen in 1833.…

Austrian librarian and archaeologist, born in Presbourg (Hungary) on November 9, 1856. He studied in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1883, then in Berlin, before entering in 1884 the…

Austrian rabbi, born in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, on January 21, 1847. Trained at Leipnik and then at Eisenstadt, where he teaches Hebrew at Hildesheimer's rabbinical school, he later studies at the…

Austrian neuropathologist, born in Vienna on June 12, 1862, son of Ludwig August Frankl. Trained at the Schottengymnasium and then at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate in…

Austrian jurist, born in Prague on October 4, 1855. Educated at the universities of Prague, Göttingen and Leipzig, he became privatdozent in 1883 then professor of law in Prague in 1891, specializing…

German rabbi, born in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in January 1848, died in Johannisbad on August 22, 1887. Trained at the yeshiva of Presbourg then at the seminary of Breslau, where he received his…

Merchant established in Jamaica, born in Manchester (England) in 1811, died in Kingston on April 26, 1888. Arriving on the island around 1837, he becomes magistrate and consul of Denmark, founds the…

American mathematician, editor, and essayist, born in Eger, Hungary, on January 18, 1853. A graduate of Columbian University in Washington in 1869, he worked in civil engineering before becoming in…

English journalist and philanthropist, born in Portsmouth in 1809, died on August 3, 1877. Retired from business, he settles in London and founds « The Voice of Jacob », the first organ of the…

Austrian writer and sociologist, one of the pioneers of totalitarianism theory. Former Comintern agent turned critic of communism. Author of a reference account on the Spanish Civil War, « The…

philologue allemand

Austrian writer

German philosopher, born in Bojanowo, in the province of Posen, on April 17, 1813, died in Berlin on January 13, 1879. Raised by his uncle in Neisse, he converted to Christianity in 1833, then…

American soldier, born in Marienthal, in Bavarian Palatinate, in 1836, emigrated to the United States in 1851. Settled in Mississippi, he enlisted in company A of the sixteenth regiment of…

Grandson/descendant of the Mocatta & Goldsmid banking house, from which he retired in 1874 to devote himself to philanthropy and Jewish scholarship. Author of The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the…

Born into a Jewish family in Czernowitz (now in Ukraine), trained in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States in 1926. Theorist of the 'Endless House', scenographer (director of sets at Juilliard…

rabbi (1850–1927)

American Jewish pediatrician from Cincinnati, founder of one of the first children's clinics in the United States, known for the description of "Forchheimer spots" in measles.

Bibliographer, born in Riga on May 1, 1867. He went to Paris in 1886 then to the United States in the fall of 1889, before entering in March 1897 the New York Public Library as sub-librarian, where…

American lawyer and soldier, born in Bavaria in 1848, died in Camden, Arkansas, on August 22, 1899. Trained at the Louisiana State Military Academy, he enlisted in the Confederate army at the…

German librarian and historian, born on August 5, 1871 in Filehne, in the province of Posen, son of Israel Meyer Freimann and grandson, through his mother, of the grand rabbi of Altona Jacob…

Russian Hebraist and teacher, born in Radom, in Russian Poland, on September 18, 1853, student in Talmudic literature of the chief rabbi of Radom Samuel Mohilever. Teacher at the Talmud Torah of…

German jurist born in Breslau on August 23, 1872, son of philosopher Jacob Freudenthal. Educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, Halle and Tübingen, he becomes a member of his native city's…

German philosopher born on June 20, 1839 in Bodenfelde, in the Prussian province of Hanover. Trained at the universities of Breslau and Göttingen as well as at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary, he…

American jurist born in New York on January 30, 1864, trained at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg (doctorate in law) then at Columbia (doctorate in philosophy). Lecturer in administrative…

German gynecologist born in Krappitz, in Silesia, on August 26, 1833. Trained at the university of Breslau where he obtained his doctorate in 1855, he becomes there a privat-docent in 1857 then…

Psychoanalyst and physician, pioneer of psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients.

Austrian Hebrew scholar born in Cracow on December 19, 1876. Author of numerous contributions to Hebrew periodicals and others, he publishes in particular a study on Joseph Caro (1895), a history of…

German statesman born in Mürkisch-Friedland, West Prussia, on January 27, 1813, died in Berlin on June 2, 1895. Doctor of law from the University of Berlin (1836), he entered the Prussian Ministry of…

Prussian statesman born in Breslau on September 15, 1827, died on his estate at Giesmannsdorf on March 7, 1890. Converted to Protestantism, he studied law in Breslau, Heidelberg, and Berlin before…

Austrian journalist and historian born in Rostschin, Moravia, on January 18, 1851, educated in Prague, Berlin and Vienna where he obtained a doctorate. Professor at the Handelsakademie of Vienna from…

Russian philanthropist born in Dünaburg, government of Vitebsk, on 8 January 1826, died in Saint Petersburg on 21 November 1899. Supplier to the Russian army for more than thirty years and honorary…

Austrian painter born in Vienna on December 10, 1856, daughter and student of Friedrich Friedländer. She devotes herself to still life and scenes of interiors of churches and homes. Her painting…

Member of the Upper House of Prussia, born in Kolmar, in Posen, on February 19, 1826. He directs a book business in Wollstein from 1846 to 1857, then settles in Bromberg as a banker. Member of the…

Genre painter born on 10 January 1825 in Kohljanowitz, Bohemia. Trained at the Vienna Academy then under professor Waldmüller, he travels to Italy in 1850 and to Düsseldorf in 1852 before devoting…

German numismatist born in Berlin on June 25, 1813, died in that city on April 4, 1884. Trained at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, he travels to Italy in 1838-39 before obtaining in 1840 a…

German philologist born in Königsberg on July 16, 1824, trained at the universities of Königsberg and Leipzig from 1841 to 1845. Privat-docent in classical philology at Königsberg in 1847, associate…

Journalist born June 18, 1829 in Pless, in Prussian Silesia, died April 20, 1872 in Nice. After studies in law in Berlin, Breslau and Heidelberg, he became assessor at the court in Breslau, where he…

Austrian theologian born in 1842 in Bur Szentgyörgy, Hungary, residing in Vienna. Trained at the university of Prague where he followed the Talmudic lectures of the grand rabbi Rapoport, he became in…

Preacher and physician born in Brilon, Westphalia, on October 23, 1825, died in Chicago on August 22, 1860. Trained at Bonn and Heidelberg (doctorate in 1844), he became in 1847 associate preacher of…

Shohet born in Stavisk, Poland, on 22 March 1822, died in New York on 17 May 1876. Having become shohet of his native town at the age of seventeen, he settled in Bernkastel-on-the-Moselle, in…

Author and pedagogue born in 1865 in Suwałki, in Russian Poland. Trained in Boskovice, in Moravia, he settled in Warsaw where he became one of the promoters of Zionism and founded a Zionist society…

Austrian scholar born in Kraszna, in the district of Kassa, in Hungary, on July 10, 1831. First attracted to Hasidism and Kabbalah at the yeshiva of Ungvár, he turned toward critical study of the…

German poet and writer born in Frankfurt-am-Main on October 26, 1845. Trained at the universities of Heidelberg and Zurich (doctorate in 1870), he resided in Vienna until 1886, when he moved to…

Hungarian jurist and penologist born in Grosswardein October 10, 1843, trained at the local Academy of Law then at Budapest University. He became known for his conduct in the famous trial of…

Hungarian cantor born in Hrabócz, in Hungary, on March 7, 1823, died in Budapest on August 29, 1891. He held several positions in small congregations until 1848, the year he enlisted in the Hungarian…

German philanthropist born in Berlin in the mid-nineteenth century, related to the family of Moses Mendelssohn. Shocked by the persecution of Russian Jews in 1882-90, he went to the land of Midian in…

German actor born in Budapest on April 25, 1842, pupil of Dawison. He made his debut in Breslau on October 18, 1863, without success, before joining in 1864 the Königliche Schauspielhaus of Berlin,…

Czech attorney, poet and translator (1857–1938)

German theologian

German chemist

German poet, Shakespeare scholar and translator (1820-1898)

Born in Worms in 1839 in an old Rhineland Jewish family, son of Jewish physician Abraham Gernsheim. Child prodigy, he became a composer, conductor and pianist; he taught and conducted in Cologne,…

German-Jewish composer, famous for the score of the film Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930), whose song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" sung by Marlene Dietrich. Son of operetta composer…

Born in Munich to a Jewish family (born Jolson), converted to Protestantism in 1819. Professor of law at Erlangen, Würzburg, and Berlin. Built a philosophy of law founded on Lutheran theology and…

German economist

Born into a Jewish family in Győr, son of physician Ignác Riesz. One of the founders of functional analysis (Riesz representation theorem, Lp spaces). Professor in Szeged and then Budapest.

Hungarian educator born in Körmend on 1 May 1852. After a study trip on the organization of asylums for the mentally ill, he founded at Rákospalota, near Budapest, the model institution « Munka » for…

Russian Hebraist born in Łódź in 1863, residing in Warsaw. He began very early in Hebrew poetry and prose, became assistant editor of Ha-Yom in Saint Petersburg (1886-87) and then editor of the…