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1114189103|/articles/11835-ozer-ben-meir|Polish Rabbiner; died at Zolkiev May, 1710; great-grandson of Solomon Luria. 'Ozer was Rabbiner at Clementow. He wrote: "Eben 'Ozer 'al Yad" (with text,|
1055411038|/articles/38-aaron-ben-abraham-ben-samuel-ibn-hayyim|Moroccan Biblical and Talmudic commentator; flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Fez; died at Jerusalem in 1632. He was a|
1146572026|/articles/26-aaron-ben-david-cohen-of-ragusa|Rabbi in Ragusa; born about 1580. His maternal grandfather was Solomon Oheb, also Rabbiner in the same city. Aaron studied in his native city and later|
104076682|/articles/33-aaron-ben-elijah-the-younger-of-nicomedia|Karaite theologian, born in Cairo about 1300; died in Constantinople in 1369. To distinguish him from Aaron ben Joseph, the elder Karaite theologian|
105338534X|/articles/50-aaron-ben-jacob-of-karlin|Known among the Ḥasidim as Rabbi Aaron the Great, orsimply as the "Preacher" or "Censor"; born in 1738; died 1771. He was one of the early great|
173802486|/articles/57-aaron-ben-joseph-of-buda-ofen|A Judæo-German poet of the seventeenth century, who was captured in the city of Ofen, the capital of Hungary, on September 2, 1686, when the|
120416611|/articles/59-aaron-ben-joseph-the-karaite|Eminent teacher, Philosoph, physician, and liturgical poet in Constantinople; born in Sulchat, Crimea, about 1260; died about 1320. He took a|
1158694091|/articles/71-aaron-ben-mordecai-of-rodelheim|Translator, who flourished early in the eighteenth century. He translated the two Targums on Esther into Judæo-German in the early years of the|
10407681X|/articles/72-aaron-ben-moses-ben-asher|A distinguished Masorite who flourished in Tiberias in the first half of the tenth century. He was descended from a family of Masorites which can be|
131805908|/articles/78-aaron-ben-moses-teomim|Rabbinical scholar; born about 1630, probably in Prague, where the Teomim-Fränkel family, from Vienna, had settled; died in Chmelnik, Poland, July|
134034597|/articles/87-aaron-ben-samuel|Hebrew author; born about 1620; flourished in Germany during the latter half of the seventeenth century. He published his "Bet Aharon" (Aaron's|
136357784|/articles/105-aaron-ben-zion-ibn-alamani|Dayyan, or judge, and prominent Jew of Alexandria in the twelfth century. His family name probably means al-Umani, or "the man of Oman" (Judah|
129821454|/articles/20-aaron-berechiah-ben-moses-ben-nehemiah-of-modena|Italian cabalist, who died in 1639. He was a pupil of Rabbi Hillel of Modena (surnamed Ḥasid we-Ḳaddosh, that is, "The Pious and Holy") and of Rabbi|
100983731|/articles/64-aaron-ha-levi-ben-moses-of-staroselye|A Talmudic scholar and cabalist of note, who flourished in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the|
128464356|/articles/63-aaron-ha-levi-of-barcelona|The "Ḥinnuk." Spanish Talmudist of the end of the thirteenth century; author of the first book of religious instruction among the Jews of the Middle|
135809355|/articles/53-aaron-of-jerusalem|Karaite of the eleventh century. He was acknowledged by the Rabbinites as one of the principal representatives of Karaitic learning and as a great|
105578330X|/articles/83-aaron-of-pesaro|Flourished in the sixteenth century at Pesaro, Italy, and wrote "Toledot Aharon" (The Generations of Aaron), an index to Scriptural quotations in|
1089680465|/articles/101-aaron-worms|Rabbinical Career. Chief Rabbiner of Metz and Talmudist; son of Abraham Aberle; born July 7, 1754, at Geislautern, a small village near Saarbrück (not|
1048713245|/articles/127-abba-arika|Celebrated Babylonian amora and founder of the Academy of Sura; flourished in third century; died at Sura in 247. His surname, "Arika" (Aramaic,|
123446473|/articles/7778-hiyya-bar-abba|Palestinian amora of priestly descent; flourished at the end of the third century. In the Palestinian Talmud he is also called Ḥiyya bar Ba or Ḥiyya|
1055553258|/articles/173-abbas-abas-abatz-samuel-b-isaac|Rabbi in the latter half of the seventeenth century at Amsterdam, where his death occurred about 1693. He translated into Portuguese, from the|
118646435|/articles/211-abd-ul-hamid-ii|Thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan; born Sept. 22, 1842; succeeded his brother, Murad V., Aug. 31, 1876. The Turkish Jews rightly regard his reign as the|
119462680|/articles/189-abdallah-ibn-saba|A Jew of Yemen, Arabia, of the seventh century, who settled in Medina and embraced Islam. Having adversely criticized Calif Othman's administration,|
11850004X|/articles/225-abelard-peter|French scholastic, Philosoph, and theologian—the boldest thinker of the twelfth century; born 1079 in a small village near Nantes, France; died|
141816724|/articles/232-abelson-judah-ben-isaac|A merchant, who devoted the greater part of his time to study; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century at Sherwenty, in Lithuania. His|
1055382135|/articles/238-abendana-isaac|Teacher of Hebrew at Oxford University. Born about the middle of the seventeenth century; died about 1710. He was a brother of the celebrated Jacob|
136309739|/articles/239-abendana-jacob|akam of London; born 1630; died Sept. 12, 1695. He was the oldest son of Joseph Abendana, and attended the Rabbinernical academy De los Pintos in|
116002654|/articles/243-abenheim-joseph|Violinist and orchestra leader; born at Worms in 1804; died Jan. 18, 1891, at Stuttgart. He received his first musical instruction from Schlösser,|
116239840|/articles/273-abicht-johann-georg|Christian Hebraist; born 1672 at Königsee, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt; died 1740. He studied first at Jena and afterward at|
173247202|/articles/283-abigdor-ben-elijah-ha-kohen|The earliest of the great Talmudists of Austria; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of R. Simḥa of Speyer (who|
138100470|/articles/290-abigdor-ben-moses|Lived in the sixteenth century in Cracow. He translated certain portions of the prayer-book into German.Bibliography: Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No.|
136667058|/articles/6709-glogauer-abigdor-ben-simhah-ha-levi|German Hebrew scholar of the eighteenth century. He published "Dabar Ṭob," an elementary Hebrew grammar with paradigms, printed with Moses ibn|
138122709|/articles/296-abigdor-zuvidal|Italian Rabbiner of German descent, who flourished in the sixteenth century; died Nov. 13, 1601. David de Pomis, in the preface to his dictionary,|
1075004365|/articles/281-abigdor-abraham|A physician, Philosoph, and translator; born in Provence, probably at Arles, in 1350. He should not be confounded with Maestro Abraham Abigdor,|
1171913818|/articles/295-abigdor-solomon-ben-abraham|A Hebrew translator; born in Provence in 1384. Assisted by his father, Abraham Bonet ben Meshullam, he, at the early age of fifteen years,|
118822004|/articles/341-abner-of-burgos|A Jewish convert to Christianity and polemical writer against his former religion; born 1270; died 1348, or a little later (Grätz). As a student he|
102602948|/articles/377-abraham-abram-jacob|German medalist and lapidary; born at Strelitz in 1723; died at Berlin, June 17, 1800. He learned the art of engraving from a workman in the Polish|
1089696108|/articles/390-abraham-ben-gedaliah-ben-asher|A commentator; native of Safed, Syria; held Rabbinernical office at Aleppo in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro|
1050554280|/articles/413-abraham-vita-de-cologna|An Italian Rabbiner, orator, and political leader; born at Mantua, 1755; died at Triest, 1832. While holding the post of Rabbiner of his native city he|
132564912|/articles/370-abraham-abele-gombiner|Polish Talmudist; born about 1635 at Gombin, in Russian Poland; died at Kalisz about 1683. He was a son of Ḥayyim ha-Levi, who was killed by the|
102417784|/articles/458-abraham-b-isaac-of-narbonne|born probably at Montpellier about 1110; died at Narbonne, 1179. His teacher was Moses b. Joseph b. Merwan ha-Levi, and during the latter's lifetime|
100970524|/articles/449-abraham-bar-hiyya-ha-nasi|As a Mathematician and Astronomer: A celebrated Jewish mathematician, astronomer, and Philosoph of the twelfth century. He lived in Barcelona in|
1053390556|/articles/395-abraham-ben-azriel-of-bohemia|A Bohemian Talmudist and grammarian, who flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century and probably lived at Prague. Among his works, yet|
100966772|/articles/420-abraham-ben-david-of-posquieres|French Talmudic commentator; born in Provence, France, about 1125; died at Posquières, Nov. 27, 1198. Son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac Ab-Bet-Din|
14401369X|/articles/4930-david-b-abraham-provencal-provenzale|Italian scholar; born before 1538; eulogized by the greatest of his contemporaries as the most eminent preacher of his century and as a prominent|
1176681044|/articles/427-abraham-ben-eliezer-ha-levi-berukim|A cabalistic writer; born before 1540; lived for a long time in Jerusalem, and died at an advanced age in 1600. A pupil of Moses Cordovero and Isaac|
1022545841|/articles/431-abraham-ben-elijah-of-wilna|Russian Talmudist and author; born in Wilna about 1750; died there Dec. 14, 1808. The son of Elijah, the gaon of Wilna, a prominent Talmudist, he|
1089894023|/articles/456-abraham-ben-isaac-ha-levi|A Spanish Talmudist and author; born at Barcelona in the early part of the fourteenth century; died at Narbonne in October, 1393. He was a religious|
136808093|/articles/474-abraham-ben-joseph-ha-levi-of-cracow|Polish commentator, born at Cracow about 1620; died, probably in Hamburg, about 1670, or at least some time after 1659. In consequence of the|
142696323|/articles/532-abraham-ben-mordecai-ha-levi|An Egyptian Rabbiner of the end of the seventeenth century. In 1691 he edited at Venice his father's responsa, "Darke No'am," adding a treatise of his|
1023964554|/articles/541-abraham-ben-musa-moses|Moroccan Rabbiner and cabalist of the first half of the seventeenth century, who studied the Cabala with Abraham Azulai. He wrote commentaries upon|
1055402500|/articles/547-abraham-ben-nathan|French author; born in the second half of the twelfth century, probably at Lunel, Languedoc. He received his education in that town, after which he|
1089689446|/articles/573-abraham-ben-shabbethai-cohen-of-zante|Physician and poet; born in Crete in 1670; died in 1729. He must have removed at an early period to Zante. He studied under Hezekiah Manoah|
128464496|/articles/592-abraham-ben-solomon-of-torrutiel|Historian; lived at the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth. When only nine or ten years old, he was compelled to|
119065398|/articles/397-abraham-de-balmes-ben-meir|Italian physician and translator of the early sixteenth century; born at Lecce, in the old kingdom of Naples; died at Venice, 1523. A short time|
1053644698|/articles/504-abraham-ha-levi-ben-eliezer-ha-zaken|Spanish exile in Palestine, author and cabalist of the early part of the sixteenth century. He was brother-in-law of Abraham Zacuto, the author of|
1053384424|/articles/442-abraham-hayyim-ben-gedaliah|Galician Talmudist. He flourished early in the nineteenth century, was a disciple of the brothers Phinehas and Samuel Horowitz, and, like his|
118646605|/articles/417-abraham-ibn-daud-halevi|Spanish astronomer, historian, and Philosoph; born at Toledo about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. His mother|
119264005|/articles/477-abraham-joshua-hoeshl|Rabbi at Kolbushowa, and later at Miedzyboz, Poland; lived inthe beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote two commentaries on the Pentateuch:|
1053054785|/articles/439-abraham-of-hamburg|Warden and leading spirit of the Ashkenazic community of London; born at Hamburg after 1650; died at London after 1721. By inducing the shamas|
132424894|/articles/10472-mat-moses-ben-abraham|Galician Rabbiner; born at Przemysl about 1550; died at Opatow 1606. After having studied Talmud and Rabbinernics under his uncle R. Ẓebi and Solomon|
171944348|/articles/617-abrahams-israel|English author and teacher; born in London, November 26, 1858; son of Barnett Abrahams. He received his education at Jews' College, of which his|
11776180X|/articles/619-abrahams-nicolai-christian-levin|Danish scholar, professor of the French language and literature at the University of Copenhagen; born at Copenhagen Sept. 6, 1798; died there Jan.|
120260697|/articles/623-abrahamson-abramson-meyer|A German physician and writer on medicine; born at Hamburg, 1764; died there October 21, 1817. He graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1783|
116004037|/articles/620-abrahamson-abraham|German medalist and master of the Prussian mint; born at Potsdam, 1754 (1752?); died in Berlin, July 23, 1811. As an engraver he was considered one|
119010054|/articles/625-abramowitsch-solomon-shalom-jacob|Wanderings. A Hebrew and Judæo-German writer; born at Kopyl, Lithuania, in 1836. He studied Talmud at the ḥeder and bet ha-midrash until the death|
1018184546|/articles/626-abrams-harriet|English soprano vocalist and composer; born 1760; died in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was the eldest of three sisters (Harriet,|
1141932660|/articles/635-abrest-paul-d|Journalist; born at Prague, 1850; died at Vöslau, near Vienna, in July, 1893. He received his education at the Lycée Bonaparte in Paris, and on its|
120527057|/articles/637-absalom|Biblical Data: Third son of King David, born in Hebron in the early years of that king's reign. His mother, Maachah, was the daughter of Talmai,|
1053385250|/articles/648-abterode-aptrod-david|Rabbinical writer; great-grandfather of David Sinzheim; probably born at Abterode near Frankfort-on-the-Main, in which town he lived toward the end|
118859110|/articles/699-abulafia-abraham-ben-samuel|One of the earliest cabalists; born 1240 at Saragossa, in Aragon; died some time after 1291. Very early in life he was taken by his parents to|
1031118233|/articles/735-achselrad-benedict-bendet-ben-joseph-ha-levi|A darshan, or preacher, of Lemberg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of several homiletical works, of which the|
100003532|/articles/739-acosta-cristoval|Spanish physician and botanist of the sixteenth century. He was born in Africa, whither his parents fled when exiled from Spain. He studied|
118646788|/articles/744-acosta-uriel|Religious Scruples. Noted writer and rationalist; born at Oporto, 1590; died at Amsterdam, April, 1647. Born and reared in a Marano family, all of|
1055219080|/articles/757-adalberg-samuel|Polish author; born at Warsaw in 1868. He published "Liber Proverbiorum Polonicorum cum Adagiis ac Tritioribus Dictis ad instar Proverbiorum|
1095270214|/articles/765-adam-salomon-antony-samuel|French sculptor; born at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, in the department of Seine-et-Marne, France, 1818; died in Paris, April 29, 1881. Adam-Salomon was|
100003893|/articles/764-adamantius|Jewish physician, author, and naturalist (ἰατρικ࿶ν λόγων σοφιστής; see Socrates, "Hist. Eccl." vii. 13); lived in Alexandria in the fourth century.|
129676551|/articles/766-adams-hannah|American author of a Jewish history; born at Medfield, near Boston, in 1755 or 1756; died at Brookline, Mass., November 15, 1832; one of the|
118500597|/articles/767-adams-john|Second president of the United States; born at Braintree, Mass., Oct. 19 (old style), 1735; died at Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826. In the later years|
1053392370|/articles/772-adarbi-isaac-ben-samuel|A casuist and preacher of the Shalom Congregation of Salonica; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the pupil of Joseph Taitazak and the|
118500619|/articles/789-addison-joseph|English essayist; born at Milston, in England, May 1, 1672; died June 17, 1719. He has been fittingly characterized as "the chief architect of|
122426975|/articles/790-addison-lancelot|English clergyman and author; father of Joseph Addison; born at Meaburn Town Head, in the parish of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland, 1632; died|
104160101|/articles/797-adeni-solomon-ben-joshua|Arabian author and Talmudist, who lived during the first half of the seventeenth century at Sanaa and Aden in southern Arabia, from which town he|
1064856276|/articles/810-adler-abraham-jacob-koppel|German Rabbiner, educator; born in 1813; died at Worms in 1856. He was the son of Isaac Adler, associate Rabbiner in Worms, and brother of Rabbi Samuel|
116007931|/articles/811-adler-cyrus|Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution; founder of the American Jewish Historical Society. He was born at Van Buren, Arkansas, Sept. 13, 1863, and|
118935682|/articles/812-adler-dankmar|German-American architect and engineer; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, July 3, 1844; died in Chicago, April 15, 1900. He was a son|
119398761|/articles/814-adler-elkan-nathan|Lawyer, and collector of Hebrew manuscripts; born at London, 1861; son of Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler. His early training was obtained successively in|
118643851|/articles/815-adler-felix|Founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, educator, and author; second son of Rabbi Samuel Adler; was born at Alzey, Germany, Aug. 13, 1851. In|
116008075|/articles/816-adler-george|German economist and author; born at Posen, May 28, 1863. His thesis for the doctor's degree (1883) was on Rodbertus-Jagetzow, the well-known|
135702054|/articles/817-adler-gottlieb|Austrian physicist and mathematician; born March 7, 1860; died Dec. 15, 1893, at Stecken, Bohemia. After receiving his early education at the|
118500694|/articles/818-adler-guido|Austrian writer on music; born at Eibenschütz, Moravia, Nov. 1, 1855. His father, Joachim, a physician, died in 1857, whereupon his mother removed|
11646853X|/articles/819-adler-helene|German teacher and writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1849, in the same house in which Ludwig Börne was born, and which was the property of|
116008148|/articles/820-adler-hermann|Chief Rabbiner of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, May, 1839; second son of Nathan Marcus Adler;|
11624755X|/articles/821-adler-isaac|Son of Rabbi Samuel Adler, American physician and professor of clinical medicine in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; born at|
118643878|/articles/822-adler-jacob|Judæo-German actor; born at Odessa, Russia, January 1, 1855. Influenced by a Jewish troupe which came from Rumania to Odessa in 1875, he resolved to|
116247568|/articles/823-adler-karl-friedrich|Austrian jurist; born at Prague, Bohemia, March 31, 1865. He is the son of Moritz Adler, author of "Der Krieg, die Congressideen, und die Allgemeine|
130273856|/articles/824-adler-lazarus-levi|German Rabbiner, of the period of transition; born at Unsleben, Bavaria, Nov. 10, 1810; died at Wiesbaden, Jan. 5, 1886. He studied Hebrew literature|
136825621|/articles/825-adler-liebmann|American Rabbiner; born at Lengsfeld, near Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, January 9, 1812; died in Chicago, Ill., January 29, 1892. He was educated in|
1055414355|/articles/827-adler-michael|English Rabbiner; born July 27, 1868. He was educated at Jews' Free School, Jews' College, and University College, London, and was graduated from the|
119356066|/articles/828-adler-nathan|German cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Dec. 16, 1741; died there Sept. 17, 1800. As a precocious child he won the admiration of Ḥayyim|
116008369|/articles/829-adler-nathan-marcus|Chief Rabbiner of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, Germany, January 15, 1803; died at Brighton, England, on January 21, 1890. He was|
116008393|/articles/830-adler-samuel|German-American Rabbiner, Talmudist, and author; born at Worms, Germany, Dec. 3, 1809; died in New York, June 9, 1891. From his father, Isaac Adler,|
118647075|/articles/831-adler-victor|Austrian physician, journalist, and leader of the Austrian labor movement; born at Prague, June 24, 1852. Having been graduated as M. D., he settled|
128812710|/articles/838-adolphus-sir-john|English lawyer, historical and political writer; born at London in 1768; died there July 16, 1845. His grandfather, a Jew of German extraction, was|
104076666|/articles/859-adret-solomon-ben-abraham|Spanish Rabbiner; born in 1235 at Barcelona; died in 1310. As a Rabbinernical authority hisfame was such that he was designated as El Rab d'España ("The|
128428430|/articles/861-adrianus-matthaeus|Hebraist of the sixteenth century. He was a Jew of Spanish descent, but at an early age migrated to Germany, where he embraced Christianity. Though|
1055408487|/articles/887-agai-adolf|Physician and journalist; born March 31, 1836, at Jankovacz, Hungary. His father, Joseph Rosenzweig, at the age of thirteen, emigrated from Galicia|
118647326|/articles/902-agobard|Archbishop of Lyons; born 779. died June 6, 840; one of the principal opponents of Judaism in the ninth century. In his time the Jews of Lyons|
11893337X|/articles/912-agrippa-i|King of Judea; born about the year 10 B.C. ("Ant." xiv. 9, § 2); died suddenly in 44. His career, with its abundant and extreme vicissitudes,|
119143364|/articles/913-agrippa-ii|Son of Agrippa I. He was born in the year 28, and according to a statement that is not uncontradicted (Photius, "Bibliotheca," cod. 33), it is said|
130217395|/articles/925-aguilar-aguylar-moses-raphaelde|Born probably in Portugal; died in Amsterdam, Dec. 15, 1679. He was ḥakam and principal of the Talmud Torah at Amsterdam. In 1642 he went with Isaac|
12231624X|/articles/923-aguilar-grace|English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion; born at Hackney, London, June 2, 1816; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main, September 16,|
100993729|/articles/950-aha-ahai-of-shabha|A prominent Babylonian Talmudist of the eighth century. He enjoys the distinction of being the first Rabbinernical author known to history after the|
102422869|/articles/986-ahimaaz-ben-paltiel|Liturgical poet, and author of a family chronicle; born in Capua, Italy, 1017; died about 1060 in Oria. Very little is known about his life. He came|
123440041|/articles/997-ahlwardt-hermann|One of the most notorious of anti-Semitic agitators; born December 21, 1846, at Krien, near Anklam, in the province of Pomerania, Prussia. After|
116009985|/articles/1027-akerman-rachel|The earliest Jewess to write German poetry; born probably at Vienna, 1522; died at Iglau, Moravia, 1544. She appears to have received an excellent|
11900173X|/articles/1033-akiba-ben-joseph|Palestinian tanna; born about 50; martyred about 132. A full history of Akiba, based upon authentic sources, will probably never be written,|
1089689713|/articles/1036-akiba-ben-judah-loeb|A German Rabbiner, who lived at Lehren-Steinsfeld, Württemberg, in the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Ha-Ohel'Olam" (Everlasting Tent),|
142700142|/articles/1037-akiba-ha-kohen-of-ofen|An eminent scholar, who lived in Hungary and Bohemia in the second half of the fifteenth century; died at Prague 1496. His learning, wealth, and|
118904264|/articles/1051-aksakov-ivan-sergyeyevich|Russian Panslavist leader; born October 7, 1823; died at Moscow, February 8, 1886. Aksakov was one of the founders at Moscow of a circle of|
133662985;171947029|/articles/1052-aksenfeld-israel|A Judæo-German writer; born in Russia in the last quarter of the eighteenth century; died about 1868. He passed the first period of his life among|
102500371|/articles/1227-al-harizi-judah-b-solomon-b-hophni|A celebrated Hebrew poet of the early part of the thirteenth century, who lived in Spain and traveled in the Orient. Neither the date of his birth|
173147585|/articles/1318-al-tabban-levi-b-jacob-ibn|Grammarian and poet, flourished at Saragossa in the beginning of the twelfth century. He was the friend and elder contemporary of Judah ha-Levi, who|
118947990;173672302|/articles/1069-albalag-isaac|A Philosoph of the second half of the thirteenth century, who, according to Steinschneider ("Hebr. Uebers." pp. 299-306), probably lived in|
138084173|/articles/1075-albas-moses-ben-maimon|Cabalist of the sixteenth century; lived in northwest Africa. He was the author of the cabalistic work "Hekal ha-ḳodesh" (The Holy Temple), which he|
1055583378|/articles/1080-albelda-moses-ben-jacob|Preacher and Philosoph, grandson of the preceding; flourished in Turkey in the sixteenth century. He was a distinguished preacher, first at|
116009926|/articles/1081-alberti-conrad|German novelist, dramatist, critic, and actor; born at Breslau, July 9, 1862. Having finished his education in his native city, he went to Berlin,|
100006868|/articles/1084-albo-joseph|Spanish preacher and theologian of the fifteenth century; known chiefly as the author of the work on the fundamentals of Judaism "'IḲḲarim"|
116010045|/articles/1090-alcan-felix|French publisher and scholar; born at Metz, March 18, 1841; grandson of Gerson Lévy, author of "Orgue et Pioutim," and son of a well-known publisher|
102139517X|/articles/1091-alcan-michel|French engineer, Politiker, and author; born at Donnelay, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, 1801; died at Paris, 1877. During his|
102378665|/articles/1095-alcimus|Alcimus and the Maccabees. Leader of the antinational Hellenists in Jerusalem, under Demetrius I. Soter of Syria (Josephus, "Ant." xi. 9, § 7); born|
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135811759|/articles/1104-aldrophe-alfred-philibert|A French architect; born in Paris, February 7, 1834. He attended the National School of Design and was a favorite pupil of Bellangé. His first|
118577387|/articles/1106-aldus-manutius|Italian publisher; born at Bassiano in 1449 or 1450; died at Venice, Feb. 6, 1515. Aldus studied the Latin classics at Rome under the direction of|
120527839|/articles/1136-alexander-balas-king-of-syria|Date of birth unknown; died 145 B.C. A youth of lowly origin, he was set up as a pretender to the throne of Syria as being the son of Antiochus|
118501852|/articles/1130-alexander-i-pavlovich-emperor-of-russia|Born at St. Petersburg, Dec. 23, 1777; died at Taganrog, Dec. 1, 1825. During his reign (1801-25) more measures for internal reform were inaugurated|
118501836|/articles/1124-alexander-ii-pope|Family name Anselmo Baggio; born at Milan; died April 20, 1073. He became pope in 1061, succeeding Nicholas II., and ruled until 1073. He was|
118647997|/articles/1132-alexander-iii-alexandrovich-emperor-of-russia|His Reactionary Tendencies. Born at St. Petersburg, March 10, 1845; died at Livadia, Nov. 1, 1894. He ascended the throne March 14, 1881, the day|
119559714|/articles/1143-alexander-jagellon|Instability of His Character. Grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland; born 1460; died at Wilna, 1506. He was the son of King Casimir IV. He|
1048422461|/articles/1144-alexander-jannaeus-jonathan|King of Judea; born about 126 B.C.; died 76 B.C. He was the third son of John Hyrcanus, by his second wife, and ascended the throne in the year 102|
118501887|/articles/1135-alexander-of-aphrodisias|Greek commentator on Aristotle; flourished at the end of the second century and at the beginning of the third, in the reign of the emperors Septimus|
118648004|/articles/1141-alexander-of-hales-alexander-alensis|An English theologian and a member of the Franciscan order; born in the county of Gloucester; died in Paris, 1245. He was educated at the latter|
1055410090|/articles/1155-alexander-suslin-ha-kohen-of-frankfort|Aguddah." One of the most important Talmudists of his time; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was Rabbiner first in Cologne|
13664631X|/articles/1158-alexander-suuml-sskind-ben-samuel-zanwil|A grammarian and cabalist; born at Metz about the end of the seventeenth century. In 1717-18 he published at Köthen (Anhalt, Germany) a work on|
1053054300|/articles/1156-alexander-usskind-ben-moses-of-grodno|A great cabalist of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno, Lithuania, in 1794. He wrote "Yesod we-Shoresh ha-'Abodah" (The Essence and Root of|
118847198|/articles/1137-alexander-bernhard|Hungarian writer and professor of philosophy and esthetics; born at Budapest April 13, 1850. He was educated in his native town, and later attended|
120105756|/articles/1142-alexander-isaac|German author; lived in South Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, and wrote on philosophical subjects from a rationalistic point|
124295037|/articles/1148-alexander-michael-solomon|First Anglican bishop of Jerusalem; born of Jewish parents at Schönlanke, in the grand duchy of Posen, May, 1799; died at Belbeis, Egypt, November|
118644645|/articles/1152-alexander-samuel|Metaphysician and psychologist; born in Sydney, New South Wales, July 6, 1859. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, after which he attended|
122879457|/articles/1159-alexander-tiberius-julius|Roman general of the first century; son of the alabarch Alexander, who gave him the name of Tiberius, probably in honor of the emperor Tiberius; but|
1068782498|/articles/1162-alexandersohn-jonathan|German Rabbiner; born at Grätz, in Posen, about the beginning of the nineteenth century; died at Altofen (Old Buda), Hungary, Nov. 24, 1869. About 1830|
102458965X|/articles/1167-alexandra|The only Jewish queen regnant with the exception of the usurper Athaliah; born 139 B.C.; died 67 B.C.; she was the wife of Aristobulus I., and|
115592741|/articles/1168-alexandre-albert|Chess-player; born at Hohenfeld-on-the-Main, Germany, about 1766; died in London, Nov. 16, 1850. Most of his life was spent in Paris, where he was|
116285613|/articles/1169-alexandre-edouard|French organ manufacturer and inventor; born in Paris December 4, 1824; died, 1888. He learned his trade in the factory established by his father,|
118501909|/articles/1178-alexis-mikhailovich|Second czar of the Romanof dynasty; born at Moscow, March 29, 1629; died February 9, 1676. He succeeded his father, Michael Fiodorovich, July 26,|
118686097|/articles/1190-alfarabi-abu-nasr-mohammed|His Works. Arabian Philosoph; born in Farab, Turkestan, about 870; died in Damascus about 950. He studied at Bagdad, then the seat of Greek|
100728944|/articles/1191-alfasi-isaac-ben-jacob|His Career. Eminent Talmudist; born in 1013 at Kala't ibn Ḥamad, a village near Fez, in North Africa (whence his surname, which is sometimes|
118740423|/articles/1195-alfonsi-petrus|A controversialist and physician in ordinary to King Alfonso VI. of Castile; born at Huesca, Aragon, in 1062, and died in 1110 at the age of|
119257246|/articles/1206-alfonso-de-zamora|Spanish Marano of the sixteenth century; Hebraist and polemical writer; born in Zamora about 1474, and baptized in the Catholic faith in 1506. His|
102282757X|/articles/1214-algazi-israel-jacob|Great-grandson of Solomon Algazi the elder, and Rabbiner in Jerusalem in the eighteenth century. Besides contributing to dialectical, liturgical, and|
129555126|/articles/1218-algazi-solomon-nissim-the-elder|Rabbi in Smyrna and in Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. He must not be confused with his grandson and namesake, a Rabbiner in Egypt in the|
114721235X|/articles/1223-alguadez|A Castilian court physician and chief Rabbiner of the fifteenth century; exact dates of birth and death unknown. He was presumably related to Don David|
1053420420|/articles/1230-ali-ha-levi-ben-solomon|Gaon; head of the academy at Bagdad in the first half of the twelfth century. His name occurs in an old Arabic responsum (Harkavy, "Responsen der|
102411689|/articles/1231-ali-ibn-sahl-ibn-rabban-altabari-abu-al-hasan|Physician and writer on medical subjects in Irak about the middle of the ninth century; born in Taberistan. His father, Sahl, was well known as an|
1011934701|/articles/1244-alkalai-abraham-ben-samuel|Casuist, who lived in Turkey in the latter part of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He wrote "Zekor le-Abraham" (Remember|
139187715|/articles/1247-alkalai-judah-ben-solomon-hai|Rabbi in Semlin, Croatia; died October, 1878. He became noted through his propaganda in favor of the restoration of the Jews to Palestine. By reason|
139480986|/articles/1249-alkan-alphonse|French printer, bibliographer, and author; born in Paris, 1809, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1889. He first worked as a practical printer, then wrote|
118814249|/articles/1250-alkan-charles-henri-valentin|French pianist and composer; born in Paris, Nov. 30, 1813; died there, March 29, 1888. On attaining his sixth year he was admitted to the Paris|
119444267|/articles/1259-allemanno-johanan|A cabalist who flourished in the second half of the fifteenth century; born in Constantinople. He migrated to Italy, and became distinguished there|
1077017421|/articles/1260-allen-john|English dissenting minister, educator, and author; born at Truro in 1771 and educated in the city of his birth by Dr. Cardue. He conducted a private|
1043808833|/articles/1278-almanzi-joseph|Bibliophile and poet; born at Padua, March 25, 1801; died at Triest, March 7, 1860. The eldest son of Baruch Ḥayyim Almanzi, a wealthy merchant; he|
119114550|/articles/4087-carthagena-don-alfonso-de|Convert to Christianity; son of Paul of Burgos; diedat Burgos in 1456. He was baptized when quite young by his father, and became archdeacon of|
123828201|/articles/1317-alshech|Rabbi in Safed, Palestine, in the second half of the sixteenth century, and son of Ḥayyim Alshech. He was a disciple of R. Joseph Caro, author of|
1068786531|/articles/1321-altar-jonas-jonathan-ha-levi|Bohemian Rabbiner; born 1755; died March 25, 1855, in Goltsch-Jenikau. He represented the strictest orthodoxy as evidenced by his polemical pamphlet|
118686704|/articles/1338-alva|Fernando Alvarez de Toledo: born, 1508; died at Thomar, Portugal, 1582. A famous Spanish general who fought in the various campaigns of the Emperor|
104089571|/articles/1342-alvaro-de-luna|A gifted Spanish statesman of the fifteenth century who attained the highest military rank, that of Grand Constable. With Chancellor Don Juan|
11776261X|/articles/1350-amador-de-los-rios-jose|Spanish historian of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, and archeologist; born 1818; died at Seville, 1878. De los Rios was for some time|
1178080145|/articles/1354-amaragi-isaac-bekor|Translator and historical writer of the nineteenth century, who lived in Salonica. He translated, from the Hebrew into Judæo-Spanish, Samson Bloch's|
136592147|/articles/1360-amarillo-hayyim-moses-ben-solomon|Rabbi at Salonica during the first half of the eighteenth century. He edited, and often annotated, the works of his father, Solomon Amarillo, and is|
11850245X|/articles/1377-ambrose|The Callinicum Riot. Church father and author; born about 340 at Treves; died 397 in Milan. This audacious prelate—who as bishop of Milan dared to|
173436927|/articles/1380-amelander-amlander-menahem-mann-ben-solomon-ha-levi|A Dutch writer of the eighteenth century. He must have died before 1767, since in the edition of the Pentateuch published in that year many of his|
1050812166|/articles/1404-amittai-ben-shephatiah|A wellknown liturgical poet, who flourished at Oria, Italy, in the beginning of the tenth century. The time of his activity was until recently a|
118502581|/articles/1408-ammianus-marcellinus|Roman historian; born at Antioch, Syria, about 320; died about 395. He wrote a history of Rome, from Nerva to Valens, in which the Jews are|
133178188|/articles/1438-amram-ben-sheshna|Head of the Sura Academy; died about 875. He was a pupil of Naṭronai II., Gaon of Sura, and was exceptionally honored with the title of Gaon within|
171959418|/articles/1428-amram-david-werner|American lawyer; son of Werner David Amram; born at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866; educated at the public schools and at the Rugby Academy in|
114680296X|/articles/1435-amram-nathan-ben-hayyim|Palestinian scholar and author who flourished at Hebron in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Amram was selected by the Sephardic|
129465046|/articles/1460-anan-ben-david|In the second half of the seventh century and in the whole of the eighth, as a result of the tremendous intellectual commotion produced throughout|
1053054289|/articles/1486-anaw-zedekiah-b-abraham|Author of ritualistic works; younger brother of Benjamin b. Abraham Anaw; lived at Rome in the thirteenth century; received his Talmudic training|
119385368|/articles/1492-ancona-alessandro-d|Historian of Italian literature and philologist; born at Pisa (Tuscany), Feb. 20, 1835. He is the youngest of five brothers, all of whom have|
116309695|/articles/1506-andree-richard|German ethnographer and geographer; since 1890 editor of "Globus"; born 1835 at Brunswick. In 1881 he produced "Zur Volkskunde der Juden," with a|
100729932|/articles/1509-andronicus-comnenus|Byzantine emperor; born in 1113; assassinated at Constantinople in 1185; reigned in 1183-85. He wrote a book against the Jews and their religion,|
143841378|/articles/1531-angyal-engel-david|Hungarian writer; born November 30, 1857. After graduating from the University of Budapest he was appointed high-school teacher in that city and in|
1057559288|/articles/1545-ankava-abraham-ben-mordecai|North-African Talmudist, author, and liturgical poet; born at Fez, Morocco, about the beginning of the nineteenth century; a descendant of the|
118649507|/articles/1553-anna-ivanovna|Empress of Russia; born Feb. 8, 1693; crowned 1730; died Oct. 28, 1740. After the death of Peter the Great (Feb. 8, 1725) a reactionary policy was|
138403937|/articles/1562-anschel|Rabbi at Cracow; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Mirkebet ha-Mishneh" (The Second Chariot), a|
118649647|/articles/1592-antiochus-vii-sidetes|King of Syria, son of Demetrius 1; born 164; died 129 B.C. In 138 B.C. he declared against the usurper Tryphon, who had taken the place of his|
102379998|/articles/1593-antiochus-viii-gryphus|King of Syria from 125 to 113 and from 111 to 96 B.C. Born in the year 141; died 96 B.C. For the first three years of his reign he was actively|
1147236925|/articles/1608-antoine-nicolas|Refused Admission to Judaism. French-Christian theologian who became converted to Judaism; born of Catholic parents in 1602 or 1603 at Briey, a|
136771378|/articles/1609-antokolski-mark-matveyevich|Russian sculptor; born in Wilna in 1842. As a young child he displayed a talent for art, and after a short term in the ḥeder (Hebrew school) applied|
118649698|/articles/1616-antonia-princess-of-wurtemberg|A Christian Hebraist and cabalistic scholar, born in the first half of the seventeenth century; died 1679. One of the effects of the Reformation in|
118503499|/articles/1618-antoninus-pius-titus-aurelius-fulvus-boionius-arrius-antoninus|Roman emperor; born in the year 86; died in 161; ruled from 138 until his death. The reign of this just and humane emperor came like a blessing to|
100013805|/articles/1620-antonio-dom|Prior of Crato, pretender to the throne of Portugal; died 1595. He was a natural son of Dom Luis, brother of King Henry of Portugal, and of the|
1089135351|/articles/1637-aphraates-the-persian-sage|The name by which a Syrian homilist of the fourth century was known. His homilies, written between the years 337 and 345, are valuable to the Jewish|
118503626|/articles/1641-apion|His Political Activity. A Greek grammarian and sophist of Alexandria, noted for his bitter hatred of the Jews; born in the Great Oasis of Egypt|
137385293|/articles/1645-apolant-eduard|German physician; born at Jastrow, city in Westpreussen, Prussia, Aug. 21, 1847. He was educated at the gymnasium at Deutsch-Krone and at the|
119160366|/articles/1648-apollonius|Greek rhetorician and anti-Jewish writer; flourishedin the first century B.C. He is usually, but not always, designated by the name of his father,|
118503685|/articles/1649-apollonius-of-tyana|Pythagorean Philosoph and necromancer; born about the year 3 B.C.; died, according to some sources, in the thirtyeighth year of his age. In Arabic|
120040247|/articles/1657-apostol-daniil-pavlovich|Hetman of the Cossacks on both sides of the Dnieper; born in South Russia in 1658; died Dec. 15, 1734. When Catherine I. expelled the Jews from the|
17317535X|/articles/1663-apotheker-david|Judæo-German writer and printer at Philadelphia, Pa.; born in Ponievyezh, gov. Kovno, Russia, Aug. 28, 1855. In 1868 he went to Vilkomir, where he|
141405600|/articles/1676-aquin-louis-henri-d|Writer and translator of the seventeenth century; son of Philippe D'Aquin. He was converted to Christianity at Aquino in the kingdom of Naples. He|
100015662|/articles/1677-aquin-philippe-d|Hebraist; born at Carpentras about 1578; died at Paris in 1650. Early in life he left his native town and went to Aquino, where he became converted|
118622110|/articles/1678-aquinas-thomas|Most eminent of the Christian theological Philosophs of the Middle Ages; born 1227 at Aquino, kingdom of Naples; died 1274. Like his teacher|
1053054270|/articles/1704-arama-david-ben-abraham|Rabbinical author, born in Turkey, 1525; lived in Salonica. When barely twenty years old, he published "Perush 'al Sefer Mishneh Torah," a|
100971695|/articles/1705-arama-isaac-ben-moses|Spanish Rabbiner and author; born about 1420; died in Naples 1494. He was at first principal of a Rabbinernical academy at Zamora (probably his|
120208423|/articles/1706-arama-meir-ben-isaac|Philosopher and Biblical commentator; born at Saragossa at the end of the fifteenth century; died about 1556 in Salonica. His father was exiled from|
1055098399|/articles/1723-arbib-eduardo|Italian deputy and author; born at Florence, July 27, 1840. On the death of his father he was obliged to discontinue his studies and earn his|
1145914497|/articles/1725-arbues-pedro|Spanish canon and inquisitor; called by certain Jews "the creature and darling of Torquemada"; born about 1441 at Epila, Aragon (hence sometimes|
119143380|/articles/1729-archelaus|Son of Herod I.; king of Judea; born about 21 B.C., his mother being the Samaritan Malthace. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Rome for|
131907344|/articles/1733-archevolti-samuel-ben-elhanan-isaac|Italian grammarian, and poet of the sixteenth century. Many of his piyyuṭim were embodied in the Italian liturgy, notably his "Song on|
118503863|/articles/1734-archimedes|The greatest mathematician of antiquity; born in Syracuse about 287 B.C. His influence on Jewish literature was not extensive. Only two of his works|
116320222|/articles/1749-arendt-otto|German economist, author, and member of the Prussian Diet; born in Berlin, Oct. 10, 1854. He graduated as Ph.D. from the Berlin University and soon|
105551404X|/articles/1751-arepol-samuel-ben-isaac-ben-yom-tob|Commentator on the Bible, lived in Safed and Salonica in the sixteenth century. He is author of the following books: "Imrot Eloah" (God's Sayings),|
119049392|/articles/1759-arias-montanus-benedictus|Spanish priest and Orientalist; born in 1527 at Freseenal, Estremadura; died 1598 at Seville. Philip II. entrusted him with the editing of the|
118645749|/articles/1766-aristides-mareianus-of-athens|Christian apologist; lived about the middle of the second century. He is described by Jerome as having been a most eloquent man. Both the author and|
119523299|/articles/1767-aristo-of-pella|A Christian controversialist who wrote against Judaism in the second century (135-170). He is the author of a "Dialogue Between Jason and Papiscus."|
118645757|/articles/1768-aristobulus-i|King of Judea, eldest son of John Hyrcanus; born about 140 B.C.; died 104. He succeeded his father in the office of high priest, while his mother|
118645765|/articles/1769-aristobulus-ii|Supports the Sadducees. King of Judea; born about 100 B.C.; died 49 B.C. He was the youngest son of Alexander Jannæus, whose political and religious|
119516594|/articles/1773-aristobulus-of-paneas|Alexandrian Peripatetic Philosoph; lived in the third or second century B.C. The period of his life is doubtful, Anatolius (270) placing him in|
132481014|/articles/1794-arnheim-fischel|Bavarian deputy and lawyer; born at Baireuth, Bavaria, Feb. 23, 1812; died there Jan. 31, 1864. He was destined by his parents for a commercial|
134050436|/articles/1795-arnheim-heymann|German Rabbiner; born at Wongrowitz, Prussia, Feb. 6, 1796; died there Sept. 22, 1865. While still a child he was left fatherless, and from the age of|
130059927|/articles/1797-arnold|Cardinal-bishop of Cologne; died April 3, 1151. One of the few prelates who, during the Crusades, protected the Jews from the violence of the mob.|
120963434|/articles/1801-arnstein-benedikt-david|Austrian playwright, grandson of the famous Vienna Bankier Adam Isaac von Arnstein; born in Vienna Oct. 15, 1765; died there in 1840. In 1782 he|
118504347|/articles/1802-arnstein-fanny-vogele-von|A leader of society in Vienna; born in Berlin September 29, 1757; died near Vienna June 8, 1818. Daniel Itzig, the wealthy and generous Bankier, and|
1102968692|/articles/1806-aron-arnaud|Chief Rabbiner of Strasburg, Alsace; born March 11, 1807, in Sulz unterm Walde, Alsace, and died April 3, 1890. Destined for a Rabbinernical career, he|
171954165|/articles/1809-aronius-julius|German historian; born Feb. 5, 1861, at Rastenburg, Germany; died June 29, 1893. After completing the gymnasium course, he entered the University of|
1055501770|/articles/1812-aronssohn-jacob-ezekiel|German physician and medical writer; born in 1774; died June 12, 1807; obtained his degree of M.D. in 1800; and subsequently became teacher at the|
115871233|/articles/1813-aronssohn-jacques-leon|German physician; born at Metz May 2, 1793; died at Strasburg Sept. 8, 1861. His father, Jacques Aronssohn (died 1845), practised medicine at the|
116353104|/articles/1814-aronstein-l|German chemist; born May 25, 1841, at Telgte, Westphalia; graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1864 with the degree of Ph.D. Two years|
118831941|/articles/1815-aronstein-philipp|German school-teacher and author; born Dec. 4, 1862, at Halver, province of Westphalia, Prussia. Aronstein received his education at the gymnasium|
102411875|/articles/1818-arragel-moses|Spanish Rabbiner; flourished in the first half of the fifteenth century at Maqueda and Guadalfajara, Castile. The name is the Arabic al-Rijal|
10238200X|/articles/1826-artapanus|Historian; lived in Alexandria in the second century B.C. He wrote a history of the Jews, parts of which have been preserved in the writings of the|
102382026|/articles/1827-artaxerxes-i|Sources of Information. King of Persia; ascended the throne in 465 B.C., and died in 425 B.C. In the Persian name Artakhshathra ("he whose empire is|
117766348|/articles/1836-artom-isaac|Italian patriot, diplomat, financier, and author; born at Asti, Piedmont, Dec. 31, 1829; died at Rome Jan. 24, 1900, and was buried at Asti. At the|
102111121X|/articles/1837-arton-leopold-emile|French adventurer; born in Strasburg in 1849; settled in Paris in 1871. He was implicated in distributing among statesmen and Politikers the bribes|
1053386796|/articles/1848-aryeh-loeb-ben-asher|A Rabbiner and one of the most eminent Talmudists of his age; born in Lithuania at the end of the seventeenth century; died at Metz June 23, 1785. He|
1147240299|/articles/1882-ascarelli-deborah|Italian poetess, and wife of Giuseppi Ascarelli; lived at Venice at the end of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century.As|
132710463|/articles/1884-ascari|Rabbi and author of the sixteenth century; styled by Azulai "Ir weḲaddish" (Angel and Saint); a pupil of R. Joseph Sagis, the colleague of Joseph|
134052307|/articles/1889-asch-abraham|German Rabbiner and author; born at Posen; officiated as Rabbiner of Zell toward the end of the eighteenth century. He descended from a learned family|
1068781637|/articles/1891-asche-tobiah-ben-ezekiel|German Talmudist; Rabbiner of Zempelburg at the beginning of the nineteenth century. His "'Eṭ Barzel" (Iron Pen) is an explanation of halakic legal|
142664146|/articles/1892-aschenburg-simon-b-isaac-ha-levi|Talmudic scholar; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main, later at Jerusalem, at which latter place he died about 1598. He was the author of a useful|
116360534|/articles/1893-ascher-anton|German actor; born at Dresden July 15, 1820; died in Meran April 24, 1885. Trained for the stage by Ludwig Tieck, he made his début in 1838 at|
1012512207|/articles/1894-ascher-benjamin-henry|Hebrew scholar and author; born in 1812 at Peisern (grand duchy of Posen); died Feb. 24, 1893, in London. His father, a corn-merchant, gave his son|
141845457|/articles/1895-ascher-joseph|Composer and pianist; born at Groningen, Holland, June 4, 1829; died in London, June 20, 1869. He was a son of Simon Ascher, reader of the Great|
118646052|/articles/1896-ascher-saul|German author and translator; born at Berlin Feb. 8, 1767; died there Dec. 8, 1822. He began his literary career as an advocate of Jewish|
118646079|/articles/1901-ascoli-graziadio-isaiah|First Work. Italian philologist; born July 16, 1829, at Göritz, Austria. His father, who had made a fortune in the manufacture of paper, died while|
124703267|/articles/1924-asher-ben-david|A son of Abraham ben David of Posquières; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was a pupil of his uncle, Isaac the Blind, and|
119130556|/articles/1930-asher-ben-jehiel|Eminent Talmudist; born in western Germany about 1250; died in Toledo, Spain, 1328. His family was prominent for learning and piety; his father|
124478271|/articles/1918-asher-abraham-adolf|Publisher, bibliographer, and editor; born at Kammin, Prussia, Aug. 23, 1800; died at Venice, Sept. 1, 1853. He was destined for a commercial|
116361190|/articles/1923-asher-david|German educationist and philosophical writer; born at Dresden Dec. 8, 1818; died in Leipsic Dec. 2, 1890. He received his early education at the|
117666823|/articles/1935-asher-leon|German physician; born April 13, 1865, in Leipsic. He is the son of Dr. David Asher, for many years secretary to Chief Rabbi Nathan M. Adler in|
116361352|/articles/1950-ashkenasy-eugene|Botanist; born at Odessa May 5, 1845; died, July 24, 1903. He held the honorary professorship of botany at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In|
1053046995|/articles/1978-ashkenazi-tiktin-judah-b-simon-sofer-frankfurt|Polish commentator on the ShulḦan 'Aruk; officiated as "dayyan" (assistant Rabbiner) at Tikotzin, Poland, in the first half of the eighteenth century.|
129654450|/articles/1961-ashkenazi-bezalel|One of the leading Oriental Talmudists and Rabbiners of his day; born toward the end of the sixteenth century. Descended from a family of German|
1032750111|/articles/1963-ashkenazi-eliezer-lazer-b-elijah|Talmudist, Rabbiner, physician, and many-sided scholar; born in 1512; died at Cracow Dec. 13, 1585. Though of a German family (according to some, the|
129744212|/articles/1966-ashkenazi-gershon|Polish Talmudist; born in the second decade of the seventeenth century; died at Metz March 20, 1693. His family name was really , "Ulif,"|
1081319763|/articles/1974-ashkenazi-joseph-b-isaac-ha-levi|Talmudist and Rabbiner; born in Germany about 1550; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1628. His first teacher was the Frankfort Rabbiner Eliezer Treves, after|
105338632X|/articles/1983-ashkenazi-moses-david|Talmudist and author; born in Galicia about 1778; died at Safed, Palestine, in 1857. After holding the office of Rabbiner at Tolcsva, Hungary, from|
1089702140|/articles/1991-ashkenazi-saul-cohen|Religious Philosoph of German descent, as his name indicates; born in Candia 1470; died at Constantinople May 28, 1523. He was a disciple of|
1055404759|/articles/1994-ashkenazi-zebi-hirsch-hakam-zebi-b-jacob|Early Life and Education. Rabbi; born 1658 in Moravia, died May 2, 1718, at Lemberg. He was descended from a well-known family of scholars. When a|
11766684X|/articles/2013-askanazy-max|German physician; born at Stallupönen, East Prussia, Feb. 24, 1865. He received his education at the gymnasium in Königsberg, Prussia, and at the|
117666866|/articles/2014-askanazy-selly|German physician; born Sept. 8, 1866, at Stallupönen, East Prussia. He attended the Kneiphof Gymnasium at Königsberg, Prussia, and later the|
130101370|/articles/2015-askenazy-simon|Polish historian; born in 1867 at Zawichwost, government of Radom, in Russian Poland; studied at the universities of Warsaw and Göttingen,|
117666912|/articles/2031-asser-carel|Dutch jurist; son of Moses Salomon Asser; born at Amsterdam, Holland, Feb. 15, 1780; died Aug. 3, 1836. He studied law and philology at the Athenæum|
171955013|/articles/2032-asser-carel|Dutch jurist and scholar; born at The Hague, June 1, 1843; died at Leyden, Dec. 10, 1898. He was a son of Louis Asser, judge of the district court|
119074680|/articles/2034-asser-tobias-michael-carel|Dutch jurist; born at Amsterdam April 28, 1838. His father was Carel Daniel Asser (1813-85). His mother was a sister of Godefroi, Dutch minister of|
102182094|/articles/2040-assing-david-assur|German physician and poet; born at Königsberg in 1787; died April 25, 1842. He studied at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, Vienna, and|
119376377|/articles/2041-assing-ludmilla|German authoress; born in Hamburg Feb. 22, 1821; died March 25, 1880, in Florence, Italy. She was the daughter of Dr. David Assing and Rosa Maria|
143862502|/articles/2044-asson-michelangelo|Italian physician and medical author; born at Verona June 21, 1802; died at Venice Dec. 2, 1877. Asson's father dying while his son was still an|
1089383541|/articles/2056-astruc-elie-aristide|French Rabbiner and author; born at Bordeaux, Nov. 12, 1831. He received his early education in his native city and took a course of study at the|
116372354|/articles/2058-astruc-jean|Physician and founder of modern Pentateuch criticism; born at Sauve, France, March 19, 1684; died in Paris May 5, 1766. His father was a Huguenot,|
122284682|/articles/2063-astruc-zacharie|French sculptor, painter, and author; born at Angers, department of Maine-et-Loire, in 1839. While still a boy he left his native city to seek his|
118504843|/articles/2080-athanasius|Bishop of Alexandria; born in 293, probably in Alexandria; died there May 2, 373. Athanasius was the greatest combatant of the Old Church. No less|
130555665|/articles/2102-aub-hirsch|Rabbi and Talmudist; born, 1796, in Baiersdorf, a small town near Erlangen, the birthplace of a number of prominent Jews; died at Munich, 1876. He|
116376201|/articles/2104-aub-joseph|German Rabbiner; cousin of Hirsch Aub; born at Beiersdorf, in Bavaria, 1805; died May 22, 1880. He held various Rabbinernical posts for fifty years, first|
116376236|/articles/2105-aub-ludwig|Author and poet; born Aug. 4, 1862, in Munich, Germany. He is a grandson of the Rabbiner Hirsch Aub, of Munich. When his father, Max Aub, a lawyer, was|
118995022|/articles/2107-auer-leopold|Hungarian violinist; son of a poor house-painter; born in Veszprim, Hungary, June 7, 1845. His musical talent manifested itself early. When only|
116377267|/articles/2110-auerbach-baruch|Educator and philanthropist; born in Inowrazlaw, in the province of Posen, Prussia, Aug. 14, 1793; died at Berlin, Jan. 22, 1864. He was the founder|
124958850|/articles/2111-auerbach-benjamin-hirsch|One of the most prominent leaders of modern German orthodoxy; born at Neuwied in 1808; died at Halberstadt Sept. 30, 1872. His father, Abraham|
11865103X|/articles/2112-auerbach-berthold-baruch|German author; born in the Black Forest village of Nordstetten, Germany, Feb. 28, 1812; died at Cannes, France, Feb. 8, 1882. He was one of eleven|
116212624|/articles/2114-auerbach-felix|German physicist; born Nov. 12, 1856, in Berlin. He was only twenty years old when he graduated from the university of his native city, and received|
105338436X;|/articles/2115-auerbach-hayyim-b-isaac|Rabbi at Lencziza, Russia, and author; of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the contemporary and friend of R. Akiba Eger of Posen and|
13160029X|/articles/2117-auerbach-isaac|Grammarian, and exponent of Rashi; flourished toward the beginning of the eighteenth century at Fürth, Amsterdam, and Frankfort-on-the-Main. The|
1053384378|/articles/2116-auerbach-isaac-b-hayyim|Polish Rabbiner; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century; was first Rabbiner at Dobria, near Kalisz, then at Plock; later he succeeded his|
11773389X|/articles/2119-auerbach-jacob|Educator and author; born at Emmendingen, Baden, Nov. 14, 1810; died Oct. 31, 1887. He received his early education in Carlsruhe, where, in the|
116859709|/articles/2121-auerbach-leopold|German physician and biologist; born at Breslau April 27, 1828; died there Sept. 30, 1897. He studied in Breslau, Leipsic, and Berlin, receiving his|
1053384343|/articles/2123-auerbach-meir-b-isaac|Talmudist and chief Rabbiner of the Ashkenazim in Jerusalem; born Feb. 10, 1815, at Dobria near Kalish, Russian Poland; died May 8, 1878, at Jerusalem.|
1091084726|/articles/2124-auerbach-menahem-mendel-ben-meshullam-solomon|Austrian Rabbiner, Bankier, and commentator; born in Vienna at the beginning of the seventeenth century; died at Krotoschin, Posen, July 8, 1689. He was|
136550614|/articles/2135-augusti-friedrich-albrecht|German author; born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1691; died at Eschberge May 13, 1782. He received the usual Jewish education of that time. According|
118505114|/articles/2136-augustine|His Complex Character. The greatest and most important of the Latin church fathers; born Nov. 13, 354, at Tagaste, a town of Numidia; died at Hippo|
118505122|/articles/2139-augustus|The first Roman emperor that bore the honorary title of "Augustus"; born Sept. 23, 63 B.C.; died at Nola, Campania, Aug. 19, 14 C.E. He was the son|
118505084|/articles/2140-augustus-ii-the-strong|Assisted in Election by Jews. Elector of Saxony 1694-1733, and from 1697 king of Poland with the title Frederick Augustus I.; born at Dresden May|
118505092|/articles/2141-augustus-iii|Elector of Saxony, and as such Frederick Augustus II., king of Poland; son of Augustus II., "the Strong"; born at Dresden Oct. 17, 1696; died there|
11766944X|/articles/2145-auspitz-heinrich|Austrian dermatologist; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Sept. 2, 1835; died May 23, 1886, at Vienna, barely two years after succeeding Zeissl. Auspitz|
119061686|/articles/2147-auspitz-rudolf|Austrian member of parliament and leading manufacturer; born at Vienna July 7, 1837. He is a member of one of the oldest and most prominent Jewish|
116388951|/articles/2157-ave-lallement-frederick-christian-benedict|Noted criminologist; born in Lübeck May 23, 1809; died there July 20, 1892. In his standard work, "Das Deutsche Gaunertum," Leipsic, 1858-62, he|
101929943|/articles/2159-avenel-georges|French author; born at Chaumont-en-Vexin, department of the Oise, France, Dec. 31, 1828; died at Bougival July 1, 1876. He was a brother of Paul|
123489261|/articles/2160-avenel-henri-mayer|French author; born in Paris, March 7, 1853. He is an adopted son of Paul Avenel. He began his career by editing "L' Événement," the daily political|
118505238|/articles/2163-averroes|Jewish Preservation of His Writings. Arabian Philosoph of the twelfth century; born at Cordova in 1126; died in 1198. Although himself a prolific|
129008389|/articles/2166-avianus-hieronymus|Christian Oriental scholar; lived at Leipsic at the end of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He devoted himself to|
118505254|/articles/2168-avicenna-abu-ali-ibn-abdallah-ibn-sina|Physician and Philosoph of note; born at Bokhara in 980; died in 1037. His works, which were brought to Spain about one hundred years after their|
1055165258|/articles/2169-avigdor-elim-d|Engineer and communal worker (died in London Feb. 9, 1895); was the eldest son of Count Salamon Henri d'Avigdor and of Rachel, second daughter of|
136823122|/articles/2175-avila-eliezer-b-samuel-de|Author of Rabbinernical works, and Rabbiner at Rabat, Morocco; born 1714; died at Rabat Feb. 7, 1761. Avila was a scion of an illustrious family of|
1055438505|/articles/2186-axenfeld-auguste|French physician; born at Odessa Oct. 25, 1825; died at Paris Aug. 25, 1876. He was a son of Israel Aksenfeld. After completing his school education|
131705679|/articles/2189-ayllon-solomon-ben-jacob|Haham of the Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam and follower of Shabbethai Ẓebi; born in the Orient 1664 (1660 ?); died in Amsterdam|
1022870343|/articles/2191-ayyas-judah|A commentator and casuist; born in North Africa about 1690; died at Jerusalem Sept. 11, 1760. He pursued his Talmudic studies at Algiers under the|
132424096|/articles/3494-bonafos-menahem-ben-abraham|French Philosoph; flourished at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was the author of a work entitled|
103580468|/articles/2224-azriel-ezra-ben-menahem-ben-solomon|Founder of the speculative Cabala, and called "The Saint"; born at Gerona in 1160; died in 1238. As to the identity of Azriel and Ezra, taken for|
136788254|/articles/2226-azriel-ben-moses-meshel-of-wilna|Grammarian; lived at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. About 1700 he left his native town, Wilna, and|
119235587|/articles/2252-ba-al-shem-tob-israel-b-eliezer|Founder of the sect of Ḥasidim; born about 1700; died at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), May 22, 1760. The little biographical information concerning him|
11932072X|/articles/2283-babovich-simha|Head man of the Karaites of the Crimea in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and president of the Karaite Council of the city of Kozlov,|
14386498X|/articles/2293-bach-emilie|Artist and journalist; born at Neuschloss, Bohemia, July 2, 1840; died at Vienna April 29, 1890. She was directress of the royal school for artistic|
130633747|/articles/2294-bach-joseph|Hungarian Rabbiner; born in 1784; died at Budapest Feb. 3, 1866. After I. N. Mannheimer, he was the first German preacher of a Jewish congregation in|
135772621|/articles/2295-bach-karl-daniel-friedrich|German painter; born at Potsdam May, 1756; died at Breslau April 8, 1829 (according to some sources in 1826). As his father was a merchant and an|
1089694008|/articles/2298-bacharach-abraham-aaron-b-menahem-man-aaron-maneles|Writer on religious subjects, and cantor of Posen, hence known also as Aaron Ḥazzan; flourished during the seventeenth century. He was the author of|
136843948|/articles/2299-bacharach-abraham-samuel|Rabbi; born about 1575; died in Gernsheim, grandduchy of Hesse, May 26, 1615. He seems to have come from the city of Worms, but is first met with at|
1082252948|/articles/2300-bacharach-eva|Hebraist and Rabbinernical scholar; born at Prague about 1580; died in Sofia, 1651. She was the daughter of Isaac ben Simson ha-Kohen, and through her|
173368786|/articles/2301-bacharach-jair-hayyim|His Rabbinical Career. German Rabbiner; born at Leipnik, Moravia, 1639; died in Worms Jan. 1, 1702. At the age of twelve he came with his father,|
1053047231|/articles/2303-bacharach-moses-samson|Son of Samuel and Eva Bacharach; born in 1607; died at Worms April 19, 1670. After the death of his father his mother took him to Prague, where he|
116026057|/articles/2304-bacher-eduard|Austrian jurisconsult and journalist; born at Pastelberg March 17, 1846. Graduating from the University of Vienna, he engaged in practise as an|
11776647X|/articles/2305-bacher-julius|German playwright and novelist; born in Ragnit, eastern Prussia, Aug. 8, 1810. He studied medicine in Königsberg, and settled there as a physician|
102212821|/articles/2306-bacher-simon|Neo-Hebraic poet; born Feb. 1, 1823, in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary died at Budapest Nov. 9, 1891. Bacher, whose name was originally Bachrach, came|
123352142|/articles/2307-bacher-wilhelm|Hungarian scholar and Orientalist; son of the Hebrew writer Simon; born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Jan. 12, 1850; he attended the Hebrew|
139706542|/articles/2309-bachrach-jacob-ben-moses|A noted apologist of Rabbinernical Judaism; born at Seiny, inthe government of Suwalki, Russia, May 9, 1824; died in Bielostok Dec. 29, 1896. He|
130103101|/articles/2311-bachrich-sigismund|Hungarian violinist and operatic composer; born at Zsambokrét, Hungary, Jan. 23, 1841. He began the study of the violin with Böhm at the Vienna|
118651595|/articles/2313-bacon-roger|English Philosoph and scholar of the thirteenth century; born at Ilchester, England, about 1214; died about 1294. He studied at Oxford and spent|
11603291X|/articles/2322-baeck-samuel|German Rabbiner; born at Kromau, Moravia, April 1, 1834. His father, Nathan, was Rabbiner in Kromau; his grandfather, Abraham, Rabbiner in Holitsch, Hungary.|
11864629X|/articles/2324-baena-juan-alfonso-de|Spanish troubadour in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; born at Baena, Cordova. He was "escribano escribiente" (notarial secretary) at the|
117534935|/articles/2327-baer-abraham-adolf|German physician and medico-forensic author; born in the province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 26, 1834; educated at the universities of Vienna, Prague,|
1012639371|/articles/2337-baer-dob-of-meseritz|His Early Asceticism. First apostle of Ḥasidism and its most important propagator; born in Volhynia in 1710; died in Meseritz, Dec. 15, 1772. Little|
117734888|/articles/2326-baer-abraham|German cantor, musician, and composer; born in Russia Dec. 26, 1834; died at Gothenburg, Sweden, March 7, 1894. His father destined him for the|
131840231|/articles/2333-baer-issachar-ben-pethahiah-ben-moses|Cabalist; lived at Kremnitz, Hungary, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He seems to have traveled in the East and sojourned some time at|
132228890|/articles/2336-baer-joseph|Founder of a firm of booksellers of Frankfort-on-the Main; born in the last half of the eighteenth century; died in 1851. A small second-hand|
117534986|/articles/2340-baer-seligman-sekel|Writer on the Masorah, and editor of the Hebrew Bible; born at Mosbach (Baden), Sept. 18, 1825; died at Biebrich-on-the-Rhine, March, 1897.As early|
116036990|/articles/2345-baerwald-hermann|German educator; born at Nakel, in the province of Posen, Nov. 7, 1828. His academic education began at the gymnasium of Konitz, continued at the|
116882182|/articles/2351-baginsky-adolf-aron|German physician, and professor of diseases of children in the Berlin University; born May 22, 1843, at Ratibor (Prussian Silesia). At the|
117535060|/articles/2352-baginsky-benno|German physician; born at Ratibor, Prussia, May 24, 1848; privat-docent of the diseases of the ear, nose, and larynx, at the University of Berlin;|
173170471|/articles/2367-bahya-behai-ben-asher-ben-halawa|Introduces Cabala into Bible Exegesis. One of the most distinguished of the Biblical exegetes of Spain; born about the middle of the thirteenth|
118646214|/articles/2368-bahya-ben-joseph-ibn-pakuda|System of Ethics. Dayyan and Philosoph; flourished at Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. He was the author of the first|
118656880|/articles/2373-bailly-jean-sylvain|Astronomer and publicist; born in Paris Sept. 15, 1736; guillotined Nov. 12, 1793. He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1763 and|
118506056|/articles/2377-bajazet-ii|Turkish sultan; born 1447; succeeded in 1481; died 1512. During his reign the Jews enjoyed a period of complete and uninterrupted peace, which was|
1055199527|/articles/2400-balassa-joseph|Hungarian philologist; born 1864, in Baja, Hungary; studied in Budapest, where he graduated in philosophy, and where he holds a professorship in the|
102660646|/articles/2412-ballin-samuel-jacob|Danish physician; born at Copenhagen, Oct. 21, 1802; died there March 24, 1866. He was the son of a merchant, Jacob Levin Ballin, and his wife,|
116047127|/articles/2423-bamberg-felix|German publicist; born at Unruhstadt, Germany, May 17, 1820; died in Saint-Gratien, near Paris, Feb. 12, 1893. He studied philosophy and history in|
1147105146|/articles/2426-bamberger-edouard-adrien|French deputy and physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 25, 1825. After obtaining the degree of B. A. in 1843 he devoted himself to medicine, in which|
134106229|/articles/2427-bamberger-isaac|German Rabbiner; born at Angenrod, in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nov. 5, 1834; died at Königsberg Oct. 26, 1896. He received elementary|
118656961|/articles/2428-bamberger-ludwig|German deputy and political economist; born in Mayence July 22, 1823; died in Berlin March 14, 1899. He studied law in 1842-45 at the universities|
135707080|/articles/2429-bamberger-seligman-baer|An Enthusiastic Student. Talmudist of the old school and leader of the Orthodox party in Germany; born at Wiesenbronn, near Kitzingen, Bavaria, Nov.|
130556882|/articles/2430-bamberger-solomon|German Rabbiner and Talmudic author; born in Wiesenbronn, Bavaria, May 1, 1835. He is the son of the eminent Rabbiner Seligman Baer Bamberger, from whom|
116047933|/articles/2435-band-moritz|Austrian writer and art critic; born Oct. 6, 1864. At an early age he began to write for the press, chiefly feuilletons, humorous sketches, and|
116048441|/articles/2436-bandmann-daniel-e|German-American actor; born at Cassel, Germany, in 1840. He made his début at the Court Theater, Neu Strelitz, when eighteen years old, playing for|
143462350|/articles/2438-baneth-eduard-ezekiel|German Rabbiner and scholar; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Aug. 9, 1855; son of Bernhard Baneth. After receiving his preparatory education in|
1055233792|/articles/2448-banoczi-joseph|Hungarian scholar; born at Szt. Gál, county of Veszprém, Hungary, July 4, 1849. He was educated at the schools of his native town, and afterward at|
117766429|/articles/2479-barach-rosa|Austrian authoress and educator; born at Neu-Rausnitz, Moravia, May 15, 1841. Educated at her native place and at Vienna, she settled in the latter|
115606432|/articles/2502-barasch-julius|Rumanian author and physician; born at Brody, Galicia, 1815; died at Bucharest, Rumania, March 31, 1863. His early education included Talmudic|
119313618|/articles/2504-baratier-jean-philippe|Christian translator of Benjamin of Tudela's travels; born at Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1721; died in 1740. He was only thirteen years old when he|
116051604|/articles/2509-barber-ida|German authoress; born at Berlin July 9, 1842. She began her literary career when quite young, and published the following novels either in book|
142391751|/articles/2511-barby-meir-b-saul|Talmudist and Rabbiner; born about 1725 at Barby, a small city near Halberstadt, Prussia; died July 28, 1789, at Presburg. His father, a tradesman, was|
117563331|/articles/2524-barges-jean-joseph-leandre|Honorary canon of Notre Dame of Paris, abbé and Orientalist; born in 1810 at Auriol (Bouches-du-Rhône); died in 1896 near Marseilles. From 1835 he|
116057378|/articles/2528-barkany-marie|Austrian actress; born at Kaschau, Hungary, March 2, 1862. She was one of the six daughters of a merchant at Kaschau, and was sent to Vienna to|
124717624|/articles/2532-barlow-thomas|Bishop of Lincoln; born in Westmoreland in 1607; died Oct. 8, 1691. He was educated at Appleby, and removed thence to Queen's College, Oxford. In|
118657275|/articles/2536-barnave-antoine-pierre-joseph-marie|French Politiker; member of the Assemblie Nationale; born at Grenoble in Dauphiny Oct. 22, 1761; guillotined in Paris Nov. 29, 1793. He was of a|
118652575|/articles/2537-barnay-ludwig|German actor; born at Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 12, 1842. He was the son of the secretary of the Jewish congregation at that place. Barnay was|
116058994|/articles/2540-barnett-john|English composer; born at Bedford, England, July 1, 1802; died at Cheltenham April 17, 1890. He made his début as a singer at the Lyceum in 1813,|
116059028;104311614|/articles/2541-barnett-john-francis|English musician; born at London Oct. 16, 1837; nephew of John Barnett. He was a pianoforte pupil of Dr. Wylde, and in 1850, and again in 1852,|
101482582|/articles/2542-barnett-lionel-d|English author; born at Liverpool 1871, educated at the High School, Liverpool, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had a phenomenally|
119490463|/articles/2549-barrios-daniel-levi-miguel-de|Emigrates to the West Indies. Spanish poet and historian; born 1625 at Montilla, Spain; died Feb., 1701, at Amsterdam. He was the son of a Marano,|
116063718|/articles/2556-barth-jacob|German professor of exegesis, religious philosophy, and Semitic languages; born at Flehingen, Baden, 1851. He studied Orientalia at Leipsic under|
11606899X|/articles/2557-bartholdy-jacob-salomon|Prussian diplomat and art patron; uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; born May 13, 1779, in Berlin; died in the Protestant faith July|
1019727705|/articles/2561-bartolocci-giulio|V02p547002.jpgGiulio Bartlocci.(From Bartolecci, "Bibliotheca Rabbinica.")Italian student of Jewish literature;. born at Celleno April 1, 1613; died|
105558336X|/articles/2570-baruch-b-david|A Talmudic author; lived at Gnesen (near Posen) in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Gedullat Mordecai" (The Greatness of|
134126033|/articles/2577-baruch-b-jacob-shklover|Talmudist, physician, and scientist; born at Shklov, White Russia, about 1740; died about 1812. He was one of the old-style Jewish scholars, more|
116408948X|/articles/2584-baruch-b-samuel|Talmudist and prolific "payyeṭan"; flourished at the beginning of the thirteenth century; died at Mayence April 25, 1221. He was a pupil of Moses b.|
1163298018|/articles/2572-baruch-ben-gershon-of-arezzo|Italian writer; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Zikkaron li-Bene Yisrael" (Memorial for the Children of Israel), containing|
116075899|/articles/2576-baruch-jacob|President ("Baumeister") of the Jewish congregation of Frankfort-on-the-Main at the beginning of the nineteenth century; father of Ludwig Börne.|
119219093|/articles/2586-baruch-simon|Serves in the Civil War. American physician; born at Schwersenz, Prussia, July 29, 1840; educated at the Royal Gymnasium, Posen. Emigrating at an|
116076054|/articles/2597-barzilai-giuseppe|Italian lawyer and Biblical commentator; born at Gradisca, near Triest, Austria, in 1828; studied at Casalmaggiore, province of Cremona. After|
119325330|/articles/2598-barzilai-salvatore|Italian deputy; born in Triest, Austria, July 5, 1860. Son of the Orientalist and archeologist Giuseppe Barzilai; studied law at the University of|
116076135|/articles/2606-basch-samuel-siegfried-karl-ritter-von|Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 9, 1837; best known as the body-physician of the emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Basch was educated at the|
119194791|/articles/2607-basch-victor|Professor of philosophy at the University of Rennes; born at Budapest, Hungary, in 1863; son of Raphael Basch. Removing in childhood to France, he|
119221004|/articles/2614-basevi-abramo|Italian composer and writer on music; born at Leghorn Dec. 29, 1818; died at Florence November, 1885. At first a physician in Florence (1858), he|
116076356|/articles/2621-bashuysen-heinrich-jacob|Christian printer of Hebrew books and Orientalist; born at Hanau, Prussia, Oct. 26, 1679; died about 1750. He founded a printing-establishment in|
120538253|/articles/2631-basnage-jacob-christian|Protestant pastor; born at Rouen, France, Aug. 8, 1653; died in Holland Dec. 22, 1725. At the age of twenty-three he took charge of the Protestant|
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1089711409|/articles/2639-bassani-isaiah|Italian Rabbiner, of the first half of the eighteenth century; the son of Israel Hezekiah Bassani, who was a pupil of Moses Zacuto and of Judah Briel|
142467871|/articles/2640-bassani-israel-benjamin|Rabbi at Reggio, Italy; born in 1703; died at Reggio Jan. 20, 1790 (5 Shebaṭ, 5550); son of Isaiah Bassani. He was a skilful poet, both in Hebrew|
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118860097|/articles/2653-batalyusi-al-hafiz-abu-mohammed-abd-allah-ibn-mohammed-ibn-al-sid-al|Credited with Philosophical Treatise. Arabian philologist; born at Badajos (whence his name Al-Baṭalyusi = native of Badajos) in the second half of|
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118507249|/articles/2668-bauer-bruno|Christian theologian, Philosoph, and historian; born Sept. 6, 1809, at Eisenburg, duchy of Saxe-Altenburg; died April 13, 1882, at Rixdorf, near|
118653709|/articles/2669-bauer-george-lorenz|Christian author of a theology of the Old Testament; born at Hippolstein, Bavaria, Aug. 14, 1755; died Jan. 13, 1806. In 1789 he was appointed|
116085274|/articles/2670-bauer-julius|Austrian humorist; born at Raab-Sziget, Hungary, Oct. 15, 1853. Bauer was educated at home until 1873, when he went to Vienna to study medicine.|
1055407529|/articles/2674-baumgarten-emanuel|Austrian author and communal worker; born in Kremsier Jan. 15, 1828. In his youth he frequented various yeshibot, acquiring secular learning in|
11757807X|/articles/2675-baumgarten-isidor|Hungarian jurist; born March 27, 1850, at Budapest, where he completed his education. Upon his graduation as doctor of law he resided abroad for|
118654268|/articles/2703-becher-alfred-julius|Austrian journalist, musician, and revolutionist; born at Manchester, England, in 1803 (or 1805); died at Vienna Nov. 23, 1848. He was a son of the|
116099666|/articles/2704-becher-siegfried|Austrian economist; born at Plany, Bohemia, Feb. 28, 1806; died at Vienna March 4, 1873. He studied at the universities of Prague and Vienna,|
117579521|/articles/2705-becher-wolf|German physician and medical author; born at Filehne, province of Posen, Prussia, May 6, 1862. He received his education at the gymnasium of his|
120364778|/articles/2708-beck-adolf|Austrian physician and professor of physiology at the University of Lemberg; born Jan. 1, 1863, in Cracow, Galicia, of poor parents. During his|
143573896|/articles/2709-beck-jacob-ben-enoch|Dayyan and shoḥet at Leipnik, Moravia, at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth He was the author of "Zibḥe|
118657836|/articles/2710-beck-karl|Austrian poet; born May 1, 1817, at Baja, Hungary; died April 10, 1879, at Währing, a suburb of Vienna. Although of Jewish parentage, he was brought|
102129029|/articles/2720-bedarride-jassuda|French jurisconsult; born at Aix, in Provence, in 1804; died there Feb. 4, 1882. He studied law at the Aix University; and with great promise began|
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1068846836|/articles/2734-beer-aaron|Chief cantor of the Jewish congregation of Berlin; born 1738; died Jan. 3, 1821, in the fiftieth year of his official capacity as cantor. He|
116107413|/articles/2735-beer-adolf|Austrian historian and educator; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 27, 1831. While still young he came under the influence of men like Gideon Brecher|
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117582034|/articles/2742-beer-berthold|Austrian medical writer; born at Brünn, Moravia, April 24, 1859. Educated at the high schools of his native city, first at the realschule, then at|
1150869208|/articles/2744-beer-jules|Composer; son of Michael Beer, and nephew of Giacomo Meyerbeer; born 1833 in Paris, where he still (1902) resides. His first attempts at composition|
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118657887|/articles/2746-beer-michael|German poet; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Wilhelm Beer, the astronomer; born Aug. 19, 1800, in Berlin; died at Munich March|
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116108886|/articles/2759-beeth-lola|Austrian operatic singer; born Nov. 23, 1862, at Cracow, Galicia. The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she spent her youth in tranquil prosperity;|
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11758312X|/articles/2774-behrend-gustav|German dermatologist, medical writer, and professor of medicine at the University of Berlin; born at Neu-Stettin, Prussia, Jan. 10, 1847. He|
133954366|/articles/2776-behrend-israel-b|German physician and writer on medical subjects; born at Wittenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1804; died at Rostock,March 13, 1867. Educated at the|
116110562|/articles/2777-behrend-jacob-friedrich|German jurist; born at Berlin Sept. 13, 1833; finished his studies in his native city at the university. He became "Gerichtsassessor" in 1859; but,|
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117583391|/articles/2786-beit-alfred|South African financier; born of a well-known Hamburg Jewish family in 1853. Beit went to Kimberley during the early days of the diamond "rush"|
132953137|/articles/2797-belais|Rabbi and poet; born in Tunis 18th of Ab, 1773; died in London 1853. An eccentric personality, he had a curious career. First Rabbiner in Tunis and|
171971477|/articles/2799-belasco-david|American dramatist; born in San Francisco in 1858 of English parents. He is of the same family as the English actor known on the stage as David|
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116114673|/articles/2826-bellermann-johann-joachim|Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University; born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754; died at Berlin Oct. 25, 1842.On graduating from|
12033075X|/articles/2833-belmont-august|American financier; born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816; died in New York city, Nov. 24, 1890. He was educated at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and, after|
1056129549|/articles/2835-belmonte-b-e-colaco|Lawyer and writer in Surinam, Dutch West Indies, about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published "Over de Hervorming van het|
1072257173|/articles/2838-belmonte-isaac-nunez|One of the most prominent of Oriental casuists; son of Moses Nuñez Belmonte; lived in Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century, and at the|
1053384513|/articles/2839-belmonte-isaac-nunez-don-manuel-de|Dutch statesman; born in Amsterdam; died there in 1704. He was not a son of Jacob Belmonte who came from Madeira in 1614, as no mention is made of a|
1013600835|/articles/2843-belmonte-solomon-abendana|Jurist; born in Hamburg 1843; died there March 19, 1888. He was educated at the Johanneum and the gymnasium in that city; then studied law at the|
119141302|/articles/2859-ben-azzai|Connection with the Canon. A distinguished tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name was Simon b. 'Azzai, to which sometimes the|
118658298|/articles/2876-ben-judah-eliezer|Palestinian editor; born at Luzhky, government of Wilna, Jan. 7, 1858; son of Judah Perlman—hence his name "Ben Judah." He received his early|
124404170|/articles/2894-ben-ze-eb-judah-lob|Admitted to the Haskalah. First Jewish grammarian and lexicographer of modern times; born near Cracow 1764; died at Vienna March 12, 1811. He|
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116116072|/articles/2899-benary-franz-ferdinand|German Orientalist; born at Cassel March 22, 1805; died at Berlin Feb. 7, 1880. The exact date of Benary's conversion to Christianity has not been|
116116102|/articles/2900-benary-karl-albert-agathon|German philologist; born at Cassel 1807; died 1860; brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. He received his education at the gymnasia of Göttingen and|
116117818|/articles/2905-bendavid-lazarus|German Philosoph and reformer; born in Berlin Oct. 18, 1762; died there March 28, 1832. In his younger days he supported himself by polishing|
10223244X|/articles/2906-bendemann-eduard-julius-friedrich|German painter; born Dec. 3, 1811, in Berlin; died Dec. 27, 1889, at Düsseldorf. His father was a prominent Bankier of Berlin and associated with the|
117584991|/articles/2907-bendemann-rudolf-christian-eugen|German painter; born at Dresden Nov. 11, 1851; died May, 1884, at Pegli, near Genoa, Italy; educated at the Düsseldorf Academy under the supervision|
118810669|/articles/2909-bender-johann-heinrich|German jurist; born at Frankfort May or Sept. 29, 1797; died there Sept. 6, 1859. He studied law at Giessen, where he was also lecturer from 1819 to|
116118423|/articles/2917-bendix-victor-emanuel|Danish violin virtuoso, pianist, and composer; born May 17, 1851, at Copenhagen; brother of Frits Bendix. He early manifested a remarkable talent|
118508903|/articles/2923-benedict-xii-jacques-de-novelles|A monk of the Cistercian order; elected pope Dec. 30, 1334; died April 25, 1342. Although he displayed the greatest zeal for the extermination of|
118508881|/articles/2924-benedict-xiii-pedro-de-luna|Antipope; born at Aragon about 1334; elected Sept. 28, 1394; died at Peñiscola June 1 (according to some, Nov. 29), 1424. This "unfrocked and|
118655434|/articles/2925-benedict-xiv-prospero-lambertini|Two hundred and fifty-fourth pope; born at Bologna in 1675; elected pope Aug. 17, 1740; died May 3, 1758. This pope, who graciously accepted a|
1012176398|/articles/2928-benedict-moses|German Bankier and artist; born in 1772 at Stuttgart, Germany; died there July 8, 1852. He was destined for the profession of sculptor. With his|
116119985|/articles/2926-benedict-sir-julius|Composer, conductor, and teacher of music; born at Stuttgart Nov. 27, 1804; died in London June 5, 1885. Showing considerable musical talent as a|
116120096|/articles/2933-benedikt-edmund|Austrian jurist; born at Döbling, near Vienna, Oct. 6, 1851. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and after graduation became the publisher|
118137948|/articles/2934-benedikt-moritz|German journalist, publisher, and editor of the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse"; born at Gnatschitz, Moravia, May 27, 1849. On attaining his majority he|
119034565|/articles/2935-benedikt-moriz|Austrian neurologist; born at Eisenstadt, Hungary, July 6, 1835. Upon his graduation from the University of Vienna, where he had prepared himself|
116120134|/articles/2936-benedikt-rudolph|Austrian chemist; born at Döbling July 12, 1852; died in Vienna Feb. 6, 1896. He was educated at the Polytechnic (HighSchool) of Vienna, where in|
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140905952|/articles/2937-benet-mordecai-b-abraham-marcus-benedict|A Gifted Child. Talmudist and chief Rabbiner of Moravia; born in 1753 at Csurgό, a small vil lage in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary; died at|
119059347|/articles/2941-benfey-theodor|German Sanskritist and comparative philologist; born at Nörten, Hanover, Jan. 28, 1809; became a convert to Christianity in 1848; died June 26,|
1060401932|/articles/2945-benisch-abraham|Journalist and theologian; born at Drosau, a small town eight miles southwest of Klattau, Bohemia, in 1811; died at Hornsey Rise, a suburb of|
136558585|/articles/2946-benjacob-isaac-b-jacob|Russian bibliographer, author, and publisher; born in Ramgola, near Wilna, Jan. 10, 1801; died in Wilna July 2, 1863. His parents moved to Wilna|
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118838059|/articles/2988-benjamin-of-tudela|A celebrated traveler of the twelfth century. Beyond his journey, no facts of his life are known. In the preface to his itinerary, entitled|
118850598|/articles/2970-benjamin-judah-philip|American statesman and lawyer; born at St. Croix, West Indies, in 1811; died in Paris, May 6, 1884. His parents were English, Jews who, some years|
116121017|/articles/3002-benloew-louis|French philologist; born at Erfurt Nov. 15, 1818; died at Dijon February, 1900. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Leipsic, and Göttingen,|
142426393|/articles/3023-berab-jacob-b-moses|Chosen Rabbi at Eighteen. Talmudist and Rabbiner; born at Moqueda near Toledo, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April 3, 1546. He was a pupil of Isaac|
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118658344|/articles/3051-berenson-bernhard|Art critic and historian; born at Wilna, Russia, June 26, 1865. He was educated in America, and in 1887 was graduated at Harvard. For some time|
141825006|/articles/3065-berger-emile-de|Austrian oculist and medical author; born at Vienna Aug. 1, 1855. He received his education at the University of Vienna.From 1882 to 1887 he was|
116130865|/articles/3066-berger-ernst|Austrian painter; brother of the oculist Baron Emile Berger; born at Vienna Jan. 3, 1857; educated at the gymnasium, the commercial high school, and|
135943736|/articles/3067-berger-oscar|German electrotherapist and medical author; born at Münsterberg, Silesia, Nov. 24, 1844; died at Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia, July 19, 1885. He was|
1055202404|/articles/3068-berger-philippe|Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin, September, 1846; brother of|
116132000|/articles/3069-berger-samuel|French professor of Protestant theology; secretary and librarian of the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Paris; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin, May|
116134062|/articles/3070-bergson-michael|Musician; born in Warsaw 1818; died at London March 9, 1898. He was a member of an eminent Jewish family of Warsaw, with which city he always|
123895324|/articles/3079-berkowitz-benzion-judah-ben-eliahu|Russian Hebrew scholar; born July 23, 1803; died at Wilna May 11, 1879. He is the author of the following works devoted to the study of the Targum|
12421326X|/articles/3081-berkowitz-henry|American Rabbiner; born at Pittsburg, Pa., March 18, 1857. He was educated at the Central High School of his native city, at Cornell University, and at|
116136049|/articles/3082-berlijn-anton-aron-wolf|Conductor and composer; born at Amsterdam May 21, 1817; died there Jan. 16, 1870. He wrote nine operas, seven ballets, an oratorio ("Moses auf|
123811961|/articles/3089-berlin-isaiah-b-judah-loeb|The most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century; born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, about October, 1725; died, while Rabbiner|
1053049900|/articles/3090-berlin-jacob|German Talmudist; born 1707, probably at Berlin; died 1749 at Fürth, Bavaria. He was a pupil of Jacob ha-Kohen, author of "Sheb Ya'aḳob," and later|
119354128|/articles/3094-berlin-naphtali-zebi-judah|Head of the yeshibah of Volozhin, Russia; born at Mir, in the government of Minsk, in 1817; died at Warsaw Aug. 10, 1893. In 1831 Berlin, who was a|
130568627|/articles/3095-berlin-noah-hayyim-zebi-hirsch-b-abraham-meir|German Talmudist and Rabbiner; born at Fürth 1737; died at Altona March 5, 1802. He was the son of a well-to-do and learned merchant at Fürth, who died|
119108127|/articles/3096-berlin-rudolf|German ophthalmologist; born May 2, 1833, at Friedland, Mecklenburg-Strelitz; died at Rostock Sept. 12, 1897. He received his education at the|
136442099|/articles/3098-berlin-saul|German Talmudist, and one of the most learned Jews of the Mendelssohnian period; born (at Glogau?) 1740; died in London Nov. 16, 1794. He received|
11613612X|/articles/3099-berliner-abraham-adolf|German theologian; historian; born in Obersitzko, province of Posen, Prussia, May 2, 1833; received his first education under his father, who was|
116136146|/articles/3100-berliner-emil|American inventor; born in Hanover, Germany May 20, 1851. He was educated at the public schools of his native place and at the Samson Schule,|
1057704768|/articles/3102-bermann-adolf|Hungarian writer; born at Presburg in 1867. After completing the study of law he became an employee of the Hungarian Credit Bank. Under the|
118960881|/articles/3103-bermann-issachar-ha-levi|Philanthropist; born at Halberstadt Nisan 24, 1661; died there Tammuz 24, 1730; son of Judah Lehmann. At an early age he displayed great commercial|
116136405|/articles/3104-bermann-moriz|Austrian author; born at Vienna March 16, 1823; died there June 12, 1895. Bermann, who came of a family of publishers, was educated for a musical|
116136545|/articles/3106-bern-maximilian|German author; born at Kherson, South Russia, Nov. 18, 1849, where his father practised medicine. On the latter's death Bern and his mother went to|
117285064|/articles/3107-bern-olga|Austrian author; wife of Maximilian Bern; born at Vienna July 5, 1865. She went on the stage under her own name, Wohlbrück, and while at the Odeon,|
137158181|/articles/3111-bernal-ralph|Politician and art-collector; died in 1854. His ancestors were of Spanish-Jewish origin. His father was Jacob Israel Bernal, a West-Indian merchant,|
116176024|/articles/3114-bernard|German poetess and authoress; born at Breslau, Silesia, about 1770; died about 1814. On her mother's side Bernard was a granddaughter of Jonathan|
118509810|/articles/3113-bernard-of-clairvaux|Church father; born 1091, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux Aug. 20, 1153. He was originally a monk of the Cistercian order at Citeaux; but, on|
132970384|/articles/3116-bernard-hermann|Teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, England; born of Austrian parents at Uman, or Human, a small town in southern Russia (at that time|
119315157|/articles/3117-bernardinus-of-feltre|His Preaching. Franciscan friar; born at Feltre, Italy, in 1439; died Sept. 28, 1494. He was one of the bitterest enemies the Jews ever had, and|
116137207|/articles/3118-bernays-isaac|Chief Rabbiner in Hamburg; born 1792 at Mayence; died May 1, 1849, in Hamburg. After having finished his studies at the University of Würzburg, in|
118656317|/articles/3119-bernays-jacob|German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 18, 1824; died at Bonn May 26, 1881. He was the eldest son of the ḥakam Isaac Bernays, who carefully|
116137258|/articles/3120-bernays-michael|German historian of literature; born at Hamburg Nov. 27, 1834; died at Carlsruhe Feb. 25, 1897; son of Ḥakam and brother of Jacob Bernays. He|
139920404|/articles/3123-bernfeld-simon|German publicist and Rabbiner; born in Stanislau, Galicia, Jan. 6, 1860. His father, who was a good Rabbinernical scholar and also well versed in secular|
117589055|/articles/3124-bernhardt-martin|German neuropath and medical author; born at Potsdam April 10, 1844. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native place and at the University of|
118509896|/articles/3125-bernhardt-sarah-rosine-bernard|French actress; born at Paris Oct. 22, 1844, of Dutch Jewish parentage. She was received into the Roman Catholic Church at the request of her|
116146516|/articles/3126-bernhardy-gottfried|German philologist and historian of literature; born at Landsberg in the Neumark, province of Brandenburg, March 20, 1800; died at Halle May 14,|
11614663X|/articles/3128-bernheim-ernst|German historian; born at Hamburg Feb. 19, 1850. On completing his elementary and preparatory studies, he attended the universities of Berlin,|
126790795|/articles/3129-bernheim-hippolyte|French physician and neurologist; born at Mülhausen, Alsace. He received his education in his native town and at the University of Strasburg, whence|
119083787|/articles/3133-bernstein-aaron-david|German publicist, scientist, and reformer; born April 6, 1812, in Danzig; died Feb. 12, 1884, in Berlin. His was one of the most versatile and|
1031298738|/articles/3134-bernstein-bela|Hungarian Rabbiner and author; born in Várpalota, Hungary, 1868; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as Rabbiner at the Budapest Seminary in|
118509993|/articles/3136-bernstein-eduard|Socialist leader, editor, and author; born in Berlin 1850. Beginning life as a clerk in a bank, Bernstein's mind became early imbued with|
1060236745|/articles/3137-bernstein-elsa|German dramatist; daughter of Heinrich Porges, the friend of Richard Wagner; born at Vienna; educated at Munich; and, for a short time, on the|
117055247|/articles/3140-bernstein-hugo-karl|Hungarian dramatist; born in Budapest 1808; died at Milan 1877. He began the study of medicine, but lacking means sufficient to continue it, he|
124683835|/articles/3141-bernstein-ignacy|Polish bibliophile and writer on proverbs; born at Vinnitza, government of Podolia, Jan. 30, 1836, where his father Samson had an important banking|
11865652X|/articles/3146-bernstein-julius|German physiologist and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 8, 1839; son of Aaron Bernstein (1822-84). He studied at the University of Berlin,|
117589179|/articles/3147-bernstein-karl-ilyich|Russian jurist, professor of Roman law; born at Odessa Jan. 13, 1842; died at Berlin in 1894. He belongs, on the maternal side, to a Jewish family|
119257408|/articles/3148-bernstein-max|German author; born May 13, 1854, at Fürth, Bavaria; now (1902) practising law at Munich. His literary activity is directed mainly to the stage. The|
116147695|/articles/3152-bernstorff-christian-gunther-count-of|Danish and Prussian statesman; born April 3, 1769, in Copenhagen; died March 28, 1835. As early as 1787 he entered the diplomatic service through|
120082047|/articles/3158-berr-isaac-berr-of-turique|French manufacturer; born at Nancy in 1744; died at Turique, near Nancy, Nov. 5, 1828. He came of a rich and estimable family; received an excellent|
1116364778|/articles/3156-berr-emile|French journalist; born at Lunéville, France, June 6, 1855. Having finished his classical studies at the Lyceum of Vanves and afterward at the|
100037720|/articles/3159-berr-michel|An Author at Twenty. The first Jew to practise in France as a barrister; born at Nancy 1780; diedthere July 4, 1843. His father, Isaac Berr de|
100037232|/articles/3160-berruyer-joseph-isaac|French Jesuit; born at Rouen Nov. 7, 1681; died at Paris Feb. 1758. He was the author of a work entitled "Histoire du Peuple de Dieu," Paris, 1728,|
116148454|/articles/3164-bersohn-mathias|Polish bibliographer, archeologist, and writer on fine arts; born at Warsaw 1826. He is the owner of a choice library which contains a valuable|
11851007X|/articles/3170-berthold-of-regensburg|Monk and itinerant preacher; born about 1220; died in Regensburg (Ratisbon) Dec. 14, 1272. This most celebrated popular preacher of the Middle Ages,|
11902439X|/articles/3171-bertinoro-obadiah-yareh-b-abraham|Celebrated Rabbiner and commentator on the Mishnah; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem about 1500. He was a|
129054763|/articles/3173-bertram-corneille-bonaventure|Protestant clergyman and Hebraist; born at Thouars, France, in 1531; died at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1594. He studied at Poitiers, Paris, Toulouse,|
11865862X|/articles/3180-besant-sir-walter|English writer; novelist; born at Porṭsmouth Aug. 14, 1836; educated at King's College, London, and at Christ's College, Caṃbridge; died in London|
116154632|/articles/3186-bessels-emil|German-American Arctic explorer and naturalist; born at Heidelberg June 2, 1847; died at Stuttgart March 30, 1888. At the university of his native|
11615795X|/articles/3233-beugnot-auguste-arthur-count|French statesman and scholar; born at Bar-sur-Aube March, 1797; died at Paris March 15, 1865. Originally he adopted the profession of advocate, but|
1111583943|/articles/3243-bezalel-b-moses-ha-kohen|Talmudist; born at Wilna, Russia, Jan. 14, 1820, where he died April 13, 1878. He was a competent Talmudist at the age of eighteen, and felt himself|
141013958|/articles/3244-bezalel-ben-solomon-of-kobryn|Preacher at Slutzk, government of Minsk, Russia; later at Boskowitz, Moravia; died before 1659. He was the author of the following works: (1)|
136037615|/articles/3250-biach-alois|Austrian physician and medical writer; born in Lettowitz, Moravia, Austria, May 1, 1849. He was educated at the gymnasium at Brünn and at the|
116161167|/articles/3251-bial-rudolf|Violinist, conductor, composer, and manager; born at Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Aug. 26, 1834; died at New York Nov. 13, 1881. He began his career as a|
116161175|/articles/3254-bialloblotzky-christian-hermann-friedrich|Jewish convert to Christianity; born April 9, 1799, at Pattensen, near Hanover; died March 28, 1868, at Ahlden-on the-Aller. Bialloblotzky studied|
1018224661|/articles/3256-bibago-abraham-ben-shem-tob|Spanish religious Philosoph and preacher; born at Saragossa; resided in 1446 at Huesca, and was still living in 1489. At the court of John II. of|
1078278970|/articles/3258-bibikov-dmitri-gavrilovich|Russian soldier, administrator, and statesman; born 1792; died 1870. In 1837 Bibikov was appointed military governor of Kiev, and governor-general|
116161965|/articles/3277-bickell-gustav-wilhelm-hugo|Christian Hebraist and professor in the University of Vienna; born July 7, 1838, at Cassel. After graduating at Marburg, where he studied Semitic|
116161795|/articles/3280-bie-oskar|German archeologist and professor at the Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, near Berlin; born at Breslau Feb. 9, 1864. He studied at the|
136918840|/articles/3281-biedermann-michael-lazar|Austrian jeweler and merchant; born at Presburg, Hungary, Aug. 13, 1769; died at Vienna Aug. 24, 1843. When fifteen years old he went to Vienna and|
123797519|/articles/3282-biegeleisen-henry|Polish critic and author; born 1855 in Galicia. He studied at the universities of Lemberg, Munich, and Leipsic, receiving from the last named the|
100445047|/articles/3288-biesenthal-joachim-heinrich|Theologian and author; born at Lobsens, Posen, 1800; died in Berlin, 1886. He was destined for the Rabbinernate; but while attending the University of|
130051039|/articles/3308-bing-abraham|German Rabbiner and Talmudist; born in 1752 at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died in 1841 at Würzburg, Bavaria, where he had been chief Rabbiner until his|
13281398X|/articles/3309-bing-albert|Austrian physician; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Sept. 20, 1844. He attended the gymnasium in his native city, and studied medicine at the|
1037550064|/articles/3310-bing-meyer-hermann|Danish art publisher and manufacturer; born at Copenhagen June 4, 1807; died there Sept. 15, 1883. As a boy he was employed in his father's book and|
117604941|/articles/3315-birch-hirschfeld-felix-victor|German pathologist and medical author; born at Kluvensiek, near Rendsburg, in the province of Holstein, Prussia, May 2, 1842; died at Leipsic Nov.|
137539037|/articles/3329-bischoffsheim-raphael-jonathan|Belgian financier and philanthropist; born at Mayence in 1808; died at Brussels Feb. 6, 1883. He left his native town when quite young and went to|
116195282|/articles/3330-bischoffsheim-raphael-louis|French Bankier; member of the Institute of France; son of Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim; born July 22, 1823, in Amsterdam. He received his early|
136585272|/articles/3336-bisliches|Editor of some valuable Hebrew works of medieval authors; born at Brody, Austria, at the end of the eighteenth century; died about 1851. He was|
11851136X|/articles/3337-bismarck-prince-otto-eduard-leopold|Prussian statesman; born at Schönhausen April 1, 1815; died at Friedrichsruh July 30, 1898; member of the Prussian Diet (Vereinigter Landtag),|
1035264927|/articles/3351-bland-maria-theresa|English actress and singer; born in 1769 of Italian-Jewish parents; died at London Jan. 15, 1838. When only four years old she took a part in a|
140917063|/articles/3352-blaser-isaac-b-solomon|Russian Rabbiner and educator; born in Wilna about 1840. Educated to be a Rabbiner, he is recognized as the foremost pupil of Israel Lipkin and the best|
139631208|/articles/3355-blau-fritz|Austrian chemist; born at Vienna April 5, 1865. He received his education at the gymnasium and university of his native city, and was graduated as|
1033291706|/articles/3356-blau-heinrich|German journalist and playwright; born in Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, Sept. 21, 1858. He received his education at the Jewish school and the Sophien|
121508285|/articles/3357-blau-ludwig|Hungarian scholar and publicist; born April 29, 1861, at Putnok, Hungary; educated at three different yeshibot, among them that of Presburg, and at|
142146927|/articles/3360-blayney-benjamin|English divine and Hebraist; born 1728; died Sept. 20, 1801. He was educated at Oxford, took the master's degree in 1735, and became fellow and|
116201134|/articles/3363-bleek-friedrich|Christian theologian; born July 4, 1793, at Ahrensböck, Holstein; died at Bonn in 1859. After a preparatory course at the gymnasium of Lübeck and|
11851167X|/articles/3365-bleichroder-gerson-baron-von|German Bankier; born Dec. 22, 1822; died Feb. 19, 1893, in Berlin. At the age of sixteen he entered the banking firm founded by his father, and on|
124419291|/articles/3367-bles-david-s|Communal worker at Manchester; born at The Hague, Holland, in 1834; died at Vienna on Oct. 14, 1899. He was senior partner in the firm of Messrs. S.|
120153297|/articles/3377-blioch-bloch-ivan-stanislavovich|Receives Public Recognition. Russo-Polish financier, economist, and railway contractor; distinguished as an advocate of universal peace; born at|
133463435|/articles/3378-blitz-jekuthiel-ben-isaac|Corrector of the press in the Hebrew printing-office of Uri Phoebus at Amsterdam; lived there in the second half of the seventeenth century. He|
11756169X|/articles/3397-bloch-ballagi-moritz|Hungarian Christian theologian and lexicographer; born March 18, 1815, at Inócz, Zemplén, Hungary; died Sept. 1, 1891, at Budapest. He was the son|
132834014|/articles/3379-bloch-andre|French musician; son of a Rabbiner at Wissembourg, Alsace; born in that city in 1873. At the age of seven Bloch began to compose music, writing a waltz|
173675417|/articles/3381-bloch-bianca|German authoress; born at Lauban, Silesia, Jan. 19, 1848, where her father was attendant at a local court. Owing to the reduced circumstances of the|
117607207|/articles/3383-bloch-emil|German otologist; born at Emmendingen, Baden, Dec. 11, 1847. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg, Vienna, and Freiburg in|
117607223|/articles/3384-bloch-gustave|French historian and archeologist; born at Fegersheim, Alsace, July 21, 1848. After passing through the Ecole Normale Supérieure he became professor|
1153750481|/articles/3385-bloch-heinrich|Austrian philologist; born Feb. 4, 1854, at Herman-Mestec, Bohemia; son of Moses Bloch, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest. He|
141301414|/articles/3386-bloch-hermann-hayyim|German author; born at Breslau April 26, 1826; died Nov. 19, 1896. He was a grandson on his mother's side of the learned Abraham Tiktin, chief Rabbiner|
116202394|/articles/3389-bloch-josef|Violin virtuoso and composer; born at Budapest Jan. 5, 1862. He made his first appearance in public at the age of twelve, and attended the National|
119136724|/articles/3390-bloch-josef-samuel|Leaves Rabbinical for Political Career. Austrian Rabbiner and deputy; born at Dukla, a small city in Galicia, Nov. 20, 1850. His parents, who were|
121161560|/articles/3393-bloch-ludwig|German dramatist; born at Berlin Dec. 6, 1859; son of the theatrical publisher Eduard. Bloch was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium,|
118663968|/articles/3394-bloch-marcus-eliezer|German ichthyologist and physician; born at Ansbach in 1723; died in Carlsbad Aug. 6, 1799. His parents, being very poor, gave him hardly any|
143345397|/articles/3400-bloch-moses-lob|Rector of the Rabbinernical seminary at Budapest; born at Ronsperg (Bohemia) Feb. 15, 1815. Among his ancestors were Isaac, Rabbiner at Cracow; the|
143909762|/articles/3401-bloch-philip|Rabbi and author; born in Prussia May 30, 1841. He studied at the University of Breslau, and under Frankel, Grätz, and Jacob Bernays at the Jewish|
143989758;1057564567|/articles/3403-bloch-samson-simson-b-isaac-ha-levi|Galician author; born in Kulikow, near Lemberg, 1782; died there Oct. 7, 1845. He received the usual Talmudical education, but was also sufficiently|
120455994|/articles/3405-blogg|German author; native of Neuwägen in Hanover; died Feb. 11, 1858. He was a teacher of the Hebrew language, and founded Telgener's printing-press at|
116204397|/articles/3412-bloomfield-maurice|Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; born at Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, February 23, 1855;|
116204400|/articles/3413-bloomfield-zeisler-fanny|American pianist; sister of Maurice Bloomfield; born at Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, July 16, 1866. In 1868 her parents settled in Chicago, Ill., and|
1021110310|/articles/3415-blowitz-henri-georges-stephan-adolphe-opper-de|Special correspondent at Paris of the London "Times"; born at Blowitz, Bohemia, Dec. 28, 1825; died in Paris Jan. 18, 1903. At the age of sixteen he|
1052516459|/articles/3416-blucher-ephraim-israel|Austrian Rabbiner and author; born Oct. 2, 1813, at Glocksdorf, Moravia; died at Budapest April 6, 1882. For some years he was tutor in Hebrew at the|
116207310|/articles/3419-blum-ernest|French dramatist; born in Paris Aug. 15, 1836. The son of an actor, he began at an early age to work for the theater. At eighteen he produced his|
124316425|/articles/3421-blum-julius|Austro-Egyptian financier; born at Budapest, Hungary, in 1843. In 1869 he became director of the Austro-Egyptian bank at Alexandria; in 1877 he was|
1020369094|/articles/3428-blumenfeld-ignatz-isaac|Austrian publisher and merchant; born March 25, 1812, at Brody, Galicia; died Oct. 2, 1890, at Geneva, Switzerland. He was one of the wealthy|
121792889|/articles/3429-blumenfeld-j-c|Polish litterateur and revolutionist; born about 1810; died before 1840. Blumenfeld was one of the leaders of a band of young Poles concerned in the|
136838529|/articles/3431-blumenstock-von-halban-leo|Austrian physician; born at Cracow March 11, 1838; died there Feb. 28, 1897. Educated at the gymnasium and university of his native town and at the|
1131882091|/articles/3432-blumenthal-heinrich|German manufacturer and philanthropist; born at Darmstadt, Hesse, March 12, 1824; died there March 27, 1901. Even as a boy his love for technical|
118659111|/articles/3436-blumenthal-oskar|German author and playwright; born at Berlin March 13, 1852. He was educated at the gymnasium and the university of his native town, and at the|
11760870X|/articles/3441-boas-eduard|German author and traveler; born at Landsberg-on-the-Warthe Jan. 1, 1815; died there June, 1853. He was destined for a commercial career by his|
124373208|/articles/3450-bochart-samuel|One of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century, and an illustrious representative of the science and theology of the French Reformed|
13831358X|/articles/3452-bochner-hayyim-b-benjamin-ze-eb|Cabalist, Talmudist, and grammarian; born at Cracow, Galicia, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century; died at Fürth, Bavaria, Feb. 2, 1684.|
118660349|/articles/3454-bock-alfred|German novelist; born at Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Oct. 14, 1859. He received his education at the gymnasium and the university of his native town,|
131838415|/articles/3455-bock-m-h|German educator; born at Magdeburg, 1784; died at Leipsic April 10, 1816, while on a journey. He was one of the ablest modern Jewish teachers in|
136605745|/articles/3457-bodek-herman|Galician Hebraist; born in Brody Sept. 27, 1820; died at Leipsic Aug. 19, 1880. He was descended from a highly respected family, and was the|
136605796|/articles/3459-bodenheimer-levi|Consistorial Rabbiner at Krefeld, in the Rhine province; born Dec. 13, 1807, at Carlsruhe; died Aug. 25, 1867, at Krefeld. He occupied the position of|
11621595X|/articles/3460-bodenschatz-johann-christian-georg|German Protestant theologian; born at Hof, Germany, May 25, 1717; died Oct. 4, 1797, at Baiersdorf near Erlangen. In his early education at the|
116216107|/articles/3462-bodenstein-julius|German landscape-painter; born in Berlin Aug. 4, 1847. He studied at the Berlin Academy under Schütze and Hermann Schnee, and in 1873 went to|
123046114|/articles/3466-boeschenstain-johannes|German Hebraist; born at Eslingen in 1472; said to have been of Jewish parentage, this statement, however, being denied by himself. He was among the|
123911664|/articles/3470-bogrov-grigori-isaacovich|Russian writer; born March 13, 1825, in Poltava; died May 10, 1885, at Derevki, government of Minsk. He received his early education from his|
1023995336|/articles/3473-bohm-moses|German physician; flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1740 he was engaged by the Jewish community of Halberstadt to attend to the|
1011705060|/articles/3474-bohmer-israel-b-joseph|Russian Neo-Hebraist and lexicographer; born about 1820; died in Slutzk, government of Minsk, April 4, 1860. His father, R. Joseph Böhmer|
1055305998|/articles/3479-bolaffio-leone|Italian jurist; born at Padua July 5, 1848. He was educated at Padua; attended the public schools, the Talmudic college—where S. D. Luzzatto was his|
142970816|/articles/3485-boleslaw-pobozny|Duke of Kalisz; died 1278. He was distinguished for his courage and administrative ability. Boleslaw aimed at furthering the welfare of his subjects|
119138158|/articles/3491-bona-sforza|Polish queen; born 1493; died 1557; second wife of King Sigismund I. She was remarkable for her beauty and energy, but thoroughly hated in Poland|
118661299|/articles/3498-bonald-louis-gabriel-ambroise|French Philosoph, Politiker, and anti-Jewish writer; born Oct. 2, 1774; died at Nomma Nov. 23, 1840. Being opposed to the Revolution of 1789, he|
119121069|/articles/3508-bondavi-en|Translator; brother of Samuel of Marseilles; lived at Tarascon in the first half of the fourteenth century. Bondavi assisted his brother in revising|
137346182|/articles/3512-bondi-jonas|American Rabbiner; born at Dresden, Saxony, July 9, 1804; died at New York March 11, 1874. He was educated at the University of Prague and in the|
100756115|/articles/3513-bondi-mordecai|German author; lived at Dresden in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote, together with his brother Simon Bondi, the "Or Ester," a|
1060270919|/articles/3515-bondi-philip|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Jinoschitz, Bohemia, Feb. 26, 1830. After having received a good education at home under the care of his father (Samuel),|
1053411529|/articles/3516-bondi-simon|Lexicographer of the Talmud; lived at Dresden; died there Dec. 20, 1816. He wrote, together with his brother Mordecai, the "Or Ester" (Light of|
11914509X|/articles/3525-bonet-jacob-ben-david-ben-yom-tob-bonjorn|Spanish astronomer; lived probably at Perpignan in the fourteenth century. He was the author of astronomical tables prepared at Perpignan in 1361.|
1020798416|/articles/3529-bonfed-solomon-ben-reuben|Rabbi at Saragossa, and poet; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth. His diwan, still extant in manuscript|
102564531|/articles/3530-bonfils-immanuel-ben-jacob|Physician, mathematician, and astronomer; lived at Orange, France, and later at Tarascon, in the fourteenth century. He was the contemporary of the|
104278374|/articles/3531-bonfils-joseph-b-samuel|French Talmudist, Bible commentator, and "payyeṭan"; lived in the middle of the eleventh century. Of his life nothing is known but that he came from|
118661469|/articles/3537-boniface-ix-pietro-tomacelli|Two hundred and eighth pope; born at Naples; elected pope Nov. 2, 1389; died at Rome in 1404. His pontificate was very favorable for the Jews in|
118513257|/articles/3536-boniface-viii-benedict-gaetan|One hundred and ninety-eighth pope; born at Anagni, Italy; elected pope Dec. 24, 1294; died 1303. He succeeded Celestin V., who resigned six months|
116245824|/articles/3563-borchard-marc|German physician and author; born in Mecklenburg, 1808; died at Paris June 21, 1872. He graduated as M. D. at Halle, later going to France, where he|
116245891|/articles/3564-borchardt-bruno|German physicist and author; born at Bromberg Nov. 17, 1859. Educated at Berlin, where he graduated as Ph.D., he was appointed high-school teacher;|
117620688|/articles/3565-borchardt-felix|German painter; born in Berlin March 7, 1857; studied at the Berlin Academy and with Max Michael; traveled extensively in Italy, France, Holland,|
116246170|/articles/3566-borchardt-karl-wilhelm|German mathematician; born Feb. 22, 1817, at Berlin; died there June 27, 1880. He studied from 1839 to 1843 at Königsberg, where Jacobi exerted a|
11625338X|/articles/3576-born-gustav-jacob|German histologist and medical author; born at Kempen, province of Posen, Prussia, April 22, 1851. He received his education first at the gymnasium|
118512749|/articles/3577-borne-karl-ludwig|German political and literary writer; born May 6, 1786, at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died in Paris Feb. 12, 1837. The family name was Baruch, and he|
1033477834|/articles/3578-bornstein-arthur|German author; born at Breslau March 23, 1867; studied at Breslau, Berlin, and Bern; and passed the state examination in Berlin in 1888. He adopted|
116255773|/articles/3579-bornstein-paul|German author; born in Berlin April 8, 1868; educated in and graduated from the university in that city, receiving the degree of doctor of|
1089683804|/articles/3590-boskowitz-hayyim-ben-jacob|Palestinian author; lived about the middle of the eighteenth century. He wrote the "Toẓe'ot Ḥayyim"(Life's Issues), a commentary on the Pentateuch|
105540385X|/articles/3614-brafmann-jacob|Jewish convert to Christianity; born in Russia; died in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. After having tried many professions, among them|
116395001|/articles/3618-braham-john|English tenor singer; born in London 1774; died there Feb. 17, 1856. His parents dying in his childhood, he became a chorister at the Duke's Place|
118514245|/articles/3620-brahm-otto-abrahamsohn|German dramatic critic and manager; born in Hamburg Feb. 5, 1856. He studied philosophy, German philology, and the history of art, at Berlin,|
119204053|/articles/3623-brainin-ruben|Hebrew publicist and biographer; born in Russia in the last half of the nineteenth century; is now (1902) living in Berlin. At different times|
1089682344|/articles/3628-brandeis-baruch-judah-ha-levi|Bohemian Rabbiner and author; lived in the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century at Prague, where he was assistant|
143555669|/articles/3630-brandeis-frederick|Musician; born at Vienna July 5, 1832; died at New York May 14, 1899. He studied at the University of Vienna, and received instruction in the piano|
118856960|/articles/3633-brandes-carl-eduard-cohen|Danish author and Politiker; born at Copenhagen, Oct. 21, 1847; brother of George Brandes. At the age of eighteen he entered the university of his|
118514326|/articles/3635-brandes-georg-morris-cohen|The Martensen-Nielsen-Bröchner Controversy. Danish author and critic; born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 4, 1842. He graduated in 1859, and for a|
122445775|/articles/3636-brandes-ludvig-israel|Danish physician; born in Copenhagen Oct. 26, 1821; diedthere Sept. 17, 1894. In 1839 he entered the University of Copenhagen, and was graduated in|
1089686498|/articles/3639-brandon-benjamin-raphael-dias|Dutch Talmudist and Hebrew author; died about 1750 at Amsterdam, where he was cantor. He wrote: "Orot ha-Miẓwot" (Lights of the Precepts), on the|
117627283|/articles/3643-brann-marcus|German historian; born in Rawitsch July 9, 1849; son of Rabbi Solomon Brann. He studied at the University of Breslau, attending at the same time the|
106006376X|/articles/3644-brann-solomon|German Rabbiner; born in Rawitsch, Nov. 3, 1814. He attended for several years the yeshibah in Lissa, and continued his studies in the Berlin|
11640874X|/articles/3645-brasch-moritz|German Philosoph and litterateur; born at Zempelburg, West Prussia, Aug. 18, 1843; died at Leipzig Sept. 14, 1895. He was educated at the|
1053385013|/articles/3649-braudes-reuben-asher|Hebrew novelist and journalist; born at Wilna, Russia, 1851; died in Vienna Oct. 18, 1902. Educated on the usual Talmudical lines, he came early|
140709649|/articles/3651-braun-josef|Austrian journalist, dramatist, and librettist; born at Budapest, May 5, 1840. Braun was educated for the profession of medicine at the University|
118928392|/articles/3666-breal-michel-jules-alfred|French philologist; born of French parentage at Landau, Rhenish Bavaria, March 26, 1832. He received his education at Weissenburg, Metz, and Paris.|
131355627|/articles/3671-brecher-gideon-gedaliah-b-eliezer|Austrian physician and author; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 12, 1797; died there May 14, 1873.Brecher, who was the first Jew of Prossnitz to|
10142471X|/articles/3674-breidenbach-moritz-wilhelm-august|German jurist; born at Offenbach-on-the-Main Nov. 13, 1796; died at Darmstadt April 2, 1857. He first attended the gymnasium at Frankfort, and then|
135583756|/articles/3675-breidenbach-wolf|German court agent and champion of Jewish emancipation; born in the village of Breidenbach, Hesse-Cassel, 1751;died in Offenbach Feb. 28, 1829. He|
116470194|/articles/3676-breier-eduard|Austrian writer; born at Warasdin in Croatia Nov. 3, 1811; died at Zaiwitz near Znaim, Moravia, June 3, 1886. His first novel, "Der Fluch des|
1055320490|/articles/3677-breitenstein-max|Austrian writer and translator; born at Iglau, Moravia, Nov. 10, 1855. He attended the gymnasium of his native city and the University of Vienna. In|
128895225|/articles/3680-brenz-samuel-friedrich|Anti-Jewish writer; born at Osterburg, Bavaria, in the latter half of the sixteenth century; date and place of death unknown. He was converted to|
1162282428|/articles/3684-breslau-aryeh-lob-ben-hayyim|German Talmudist and Rabbiner; born in 1741 at Breslau, Prussia; died April 22, 1809, at Rotterdam, Holland. He lived at Lissa, Posen, and later at|
136634486|/articles/3686-breslau-marcus-heymann|Author and journalist; born at Breslau, Germany; died in London May 14, 1864. He went to London as a youth, and for a time taught Hebrew and was|
116486988|/articles/3689-breslaur-emil|German musician and writer on musical pedagogics; born at Kottbus May 29, 1836. He first attended the gymnasium in his native city, and later the|
138477426|/articles/3691-bresnitz-heinrich|Austrian author and journalist; born at Czernowitz, Bukowina, Austria-Hungary, 1844. In 1867 he established in Vienna a periodical, "Der Osten," and|
141602171|/articles/3692-bresselau-meir-israel|German notary and secretary of the Reform congregation of Hamburg; born 1785 (?); died in Hamburg Dec. 25, 1839. He was identified with the Reform|
1013160606|/articles/3694-bresslau-mendel-ben-hayyim-judah|Bookseller at Breslau (died 1829); author of articles in the periodical "Ha-Meassef," and of an allegorical ethical dialogue, "Yaldut u-Baḥarut"|
116487380|/articles/3693-bresslau-harry|German historian; born in Dannenberg, Hanover, March 22, 1848. He studied history in Göttingen from 1866 to 1869; became teacher of the real-school|
118515225|/articles/3697-breuer-joseph|Austrian physician; born Jan. 15, 1842, at Vienna. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, whence in 1863 he graduated with the degree of|
117631191|/articles/3708-brieger-ludwig|German physician and medical writer; born at Glatz, in Prussian Silesia, July 26, 1849. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native|
118674102|/articles/3711-bright-john|English statesman and orator; born at Greenbank, Nov. 16, 1811; died in Rochdale March 27, 1889. It has been stated that his mother, Martha Jacobs,|
1057556807|/articles/3713-brill-jehiel|Russian journalist. According to Zeitlin he was born in 1836 in Tultschin, Russian Poland; but Fuenn, who knew him well, states that he was born in|
136634761|/articles/3716-brill-samuel-low|Hungarian Rabbiner and Talmudical scholar; born Sept. 14, 1814, in Budapest; died April 8, 1897. He was carefully educated by his father, Azriel Brill|
1027471668|/articles/3727-broda-abraham-b-shalom|Russian Rabbinernical author; born in Wilna about the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there after 1860. His father, R. Shalom b. Aaron, who|
1011856026|/articles/3726-broda-abraham-ben-saul|Bohemian Talmudist; born about 1640 at Bunzlau; died April 11, 1717, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. Saul Broda sent his son to Cracow to pursue his|
129292230|/articles/3730-brodsky-adolph|Russian violinist; born in Taganrog March 21, 1851. At the age of nine he played in a concert at Odessa, attracting much attention. He received his|
123876400|/articles/3732-brody-heinrich|Austrian Rabbiner; born May 21, 1868, at Ungvár, Hungary; descendant of Abraham Broda. Educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the|
118857282|/articles/3733-brody-sandor|Hungarian author and journalist; born at Erlau in 1863. After attending the schools of that city he devoted himself entirely to literature. From|
128773804|/articles/3735-broglie-victor-claude-prince-de|French statesman; opponent of Jewish emancipation; born at Paris, 1757; beheaded in 1794 for intriguing against the French Revolution. He wrote|
120343959|/articles/3745-brothers-richard|English visionary and founder of Anglo Israelism; born Dec. 25, 1757, at Placentia, Newfoundland; died at London Jan. 25, 1824. He entered the|
125002203|/articles/3746-broughton-hugh|English Christian divine and Rabbinernical scholar; born 1549 at Oldbury, Shropshire; died at Tottenham, near London, Aug. 4, 1612. Broughton was|
134001753|/articles/3749-brown-william|Scottish clergyman; born 1766; died 1835; for forty-three years minister of Eskdalemuir, Scotland. He is the author of "Antiquities of the Jews|
118515780|/articles/3750-browning-robert|English poet; born in Clerkenwell, London, 1812; died at Venice Dec. 12, 1889. From his somewhat Jewish appearance, knowledge of Hebrew, and|
116725648|/articles/3755-bruck-julius|German dentist and writer on dentistry; born at Breslau Oct. 6, 1840; died there, April 20, 1902. He studied dentistry and medicine at the|
1031194630|/articles/3756-bruck-lajos|Hungarian painter; born at Pápa, county of Veszprim, Nov., 1846. Though his father intended him for commercial life, he early showed a liking for|
1079730141|/articles/3757-bruck-max-miksa|Hungarian painter; born at Budapest 1863; a brother of Lajos Bruck. He graduated from the schools of his native city, and when still a pupil at the|
1047549425|/articles/3758-bruck-moses|Hungarian theological writer; born about 1812 in Prerau, Moravia; died in 1849. He studied at Prague, and, as he could find no position as tutor in|
121083837|/articles/3759-bruck-solomon-b-hayyim|Austrian Hebraist; born in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died about 1846. He is the author of "Ḥaḳirat ha-Emet" (Altona, 1839; 2d ed.,|
116750901|/articles/3763-brull-adolf|German writer and theologian; born in Kojetein, Moravia, April 27, 1846; son of Rabbi Jakob Brüll. He was educated at Kremsier and at the|
118660284;116776145|/articles/3764-brull-ignaz|Austrian composer; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Nov. 7, 1846. In 1848 his parents removed to Vienna, where he became a pupil of Epstein|
135648084|/articles/3765-brull-jakob|Austrian Talmudist and author; born at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia, Nov. 16, 1812; died at Kojetein Nov. 29, 1889. He attended the yeshibot of Bonyhad,|
116751215|/articles/3766-brull-nehemiah|Rabbi and scholar of varied attainments; born March 16, 1843, at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia; died Feb. 5, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. Brüll received|
119404192|/articles/3768-brunetti-angelo|Popular Roman leader, and advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born in Rome 1800; died there Aug. 10, 1849. Inspired by the patriot Mazzini,|
1022409913|/articles/3770-brunner-arnold-william|American architect; the son of William Brunner and Isabelle Solomon; was born in New York city Sept. 25, 1857. He was educated in Manchester,|
118667734|/articles/3771-brunner-sebastian|Austrian Catholic theologian, editor, and anti-Jewish writer; born Dec. 10, 1814, in Vienna; died in Währing, near Vienna, Nov. 26, 1893. He was|
132770547|/articles/3778-brutzkus-judah-loeb-ben-david|Russian writer; born 1870 at Polangen, in the government of Courland; studied at the gymnasium and University of Moscow, from which city his family|
120421887|/articles/3781-buber-solomon|Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works; born at Lemberg Feb. 2, 1827. His father, Isaiah Abraham Buber, was versed in Talmudic literature and|
104000856|/articles/3784-buchbinder-bernhard|Austrian journalist; born July 6, 1854, in Budapest, where he received his education, being destined for a mercantile career. A one-act comedy,|
116818166|/articles/3782-buchheim-charles-adolphus|Professor of the German language and German literature at King's College, London; born in Moravia1828; died at London June 4, 1900. He was educated|
116818476|/articles/3785-buchholz-carl-august|German Christian lawyer and author; born in the latter half of the eighteenth century; died at Lübeck Nov. 15, 1843. He was a doctor of laws and of|
103465702X|/articles/3786-buchholz-p|German Rabbiner; born Oct. 2, 1837; died in Emden, Hanover, Sept. 20, 1892. He became Rabbiner of Märkisch-Friedland in 1863, where he remained till 1867,|
171994426|/articles/3787-buchler-adolf|Austrian historian and theologian; born Oct. 18, 1867, at Priekopa, Hungary. In 1887 he began his theological studies at the Budapest Seminary, and|
1053051255|/articles/3789-buchner-wolf-b-david-hakohen|Hebrew stylist; born at Brody in the latter half of the eighteenth century and lived into the nineteenth. In his boyhood Buchner enjoyed the|
137661657|/articles/3793-buczacz-abraham-david-b-asher-anshel|Galician Talmudist; born 1770 at Nadworna; died 1840 at Buczacz. Even as a boy he attracted, by his acuteness in Talmudic knowledge, the attention|
11705495X|/articles/3798-budinger-max|Austrian historian; born April 1, 1828, at Cassel, Germany; died at Vienna Feb. 23, 1902; son of Moses Mordecai Büdinger.Büdinger devoted himself|
13397460X|/articles/3800-budinger-moses-mordecai|German educator; born at Maidorf, a village in Hessen, Jan., 1783; died at Cassel Jan. 31, 1841. At the age of twenty he became a servant in the|
118667920|/articles/3801-budny-simon|Calvinist priest of Lithuania in the sixteenth century; founder of the Polish sect of the Budnians, who were surnamed "Half-Jews"|
130831085|/articles/3826-bunney-edmund|English preacher and Hebrew scholar; born at Vache, near Chalfont, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, in 1540; died at Carwood, Yorkshire, Feb. 26, 1618 or|
117160504|/articles/3829-buol-schauenstein-john-rudolph-count-von|Austrian diplomat; born Nov. 21, 1763; died Feb. 12, 1834, in Vienna. He entered the diplomatic service, and was sent as ambassador to The Hague in|
119202409|/articles/3831-burg-meno|German military officer; was born in Berlin Oct. 9, 1789; died there Aug. 26, 1853. His father was in very poor circumstances, but his cousin, S.|
117253561|/articles/10169-lubliner-hugo|German dramatist; born at Breslau April 22, 1846. He studied at the industrial school in Berlin, and became manager of a cotton and woolen mill.|
117642541|/articles/3853-busnach-william-bertrand|French dramatist; born in Paris March 7, 1832; nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with Bakri, to whom France was|
119354780|/articles/3860-buxtorf-buxtorff-johannes|Appointed Professor of Hebrew. The principal founder of Rabbinernical study among Christian scholars; born Dec. 25, 1564, at Kamen, Westphalia; died|
11718991X|/articles/3861-buxtorf-johannes|Becomes Professor of Hebrew. Johannes Buxtorf, the son of the elder; known as Johannes Buxtorf II.; Christian Hebraist; born at Basel Aug. 13, 1599;|
12068943X|/articles/3862-buxtorf-johannes-b|Nephew of Johannes Jakob Buxtorf; born Jan. 8, 1663; died June 19, 1732. He was professor of Hebrew at Basel, and published "Specimen Phraseologiæ|
124949886|/articles/3863-buxtorf-johannes-jakob|Professor of Hebrew at Basel; son of Johannes Buxtorf II. by his fourth wife; born Sept. 4, 1645; died April 4, 1705. According to a letter written|
1031459316|/articles/3864-buxtorf-johannes-rudolphus|Great-grandson of Johannes Buxtorf I.; born at Basel Oct. 24, 1747; died 1815. After completing his studies in his native city, he became private|
1059829754|/articles/3866-buzaglio-buzagli|Cabalist; born in Morocco (where his father was "rosh yeshibah") at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died in 1780. He was a disciple of the|
1061106624|/articles/3874-byk-emil|Austrian lawyer and deputy; born Jan. 14, 1845, at Janow, near Trembowla, in Galicia.In 1885 Byk was chosen chairman of the charity committee of the|
118518208|/articles/3876-byron-george-gordon-lord|English poet; born in Halles street, London, Jan. 22, 1788; died at Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824. The only one of his works which has any|
118675265|/articles/3891-cahan-abraham|Russian-American novelist and labor leader; born in Podberezhye, government of Wilna, July 7, 1860. His grandfather was a Rabbiner and preacher in|
117668400|/articles/3899-cahen-isidore|French scholar and journalist; born at Paris in 1826; died there March 6, 1902. After having brilliantly completed his education at the Collége|
116401141|/articles/3900-cahen-samuel|French Hebraist and journalist; born at Metz Aug. 4, 1796; died at Paris Jan. 8, 1862. He was brought up at Mayence; pursuing a course of Rabbinernical|
1012180921|/articles/3901-cahn-arnold|German physician; born at Worms April 11, 1858. After completing his course at the gymnasium, he studied medicine at the University of Strasburg,|
118824066|/articles/3902-cahun-david-leon|French Orientalist and writer; born June 23, 1841, at Haguenau, Alsace; died at Paris March 30, 1900. Cahun's family, which came originally from|
118518410|/articles/3926-caligula-caius-caesar-augustus-germanicus|Third emperor of Rome; born Aug. 31, 12 C.E. ; assassinated at Rome Jan. 24, 41. He soon displayed the characteristics which made his reign a blot|
1075080959|/articles/3928-calimani-simhah-simon-ben-abraham|Venetian Rabbiner and author; died at Venice Aug. 2, 1784. He was a versatile writer, and equally prominent as linguist, poet, orator, and Talmudist.|
118518453|/articles/3930-calixtus-ii-guido-of-burgundy|One hundred and sixty-seventh pope (1119-24); born at Quigney, near Besançon, France; died at Rome Dec. 12, 1124. His attitude toward the Jews was a|
104160055|/articles/3931-callenberg-johann-heinrich|Professor of theology and philology, and promoter of conversionist enterprise among the Jews; born of peasant parents at Molschleben Jan. 12, 1694;|
116432195|/articles/3935-calm-marie|German authoress and advocate of women's suffrage; born at Arolsen, Germany, April 3, 1832; died at Cassel, Germany, Feb. 22, 1887. She managed a|
118666665|/articles/3938-calmet-augustin|French Catholic theologian, historian, and Biblical scholar; born 1672 at Mesnil-la-Horgne in Lorraine; died 1757 in Paris. In 1688 he entered the|
1051900840|/articles/3943-calvert-thomas|English Hebrew scholar; born 1606; died at York March, 1679. He wrote "The Blessed Jew of Morocco" (York, 1648), an adaptation of the well-known|
12421195X|/articles/3952-campanton-isaac-b-jacob|Spanish Rabbiner; born 1360; died at Penafeel in 1463. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferran Martinez and Vicente Ferrer, when|
116443235|/articles/3975-canstatt-karl-friedrich|German physician and medical author; born at Regensburg July 11, 1807; died at Erlangen March 10, 1850. He was one of the pioneers of the modern|
14211488X|/articles/3979-cantarini-isaac-hayyim-vita|Italian poet, writer, physician, and Rabbiner; born Feb. 2, 1644, at Padua; died there June 8, 1723. He studied Hebrew and the Talmud with Solomon|
118518887|/articles/3991-cantor-georg|German mathematician; born at St. Petersburg, Russia, March 3, 1845. He is distantly related to Moritz Cantor. He was only eleven years old when he|
116443618|/articles/3993-cantor-moritz|German historian of mathematics; born at Mannheim, Germany, on Aug. 23, 1829. He comes of a family that emigrated to Holland from Portugal, another|
118865498|/articles/3995-capadoce-abraham|Convert to Christianity; born at Amsterdam 1795; died there Dec. 16, 1874. His parents, who were Portuguese Jews, gave him an entirely secular|
100070841|/articles/3998-capefigue-jean-baptiste-honore-raymond|French Christian publicist and historian; born at Marseilles 1802; died at Paris Dec. 23, 1872. Among many historical works, Capefigue wrote a|
118712632|/articles/4004-capistrano-john-of|Franciscan monk; born at Capistrano, Italy, 1386; died 1456. Owing to his remarkable power as a popular preacher, he was sent by Pope Nicholas V.|
118518968|/articles/4006-capito-kopfel-wolfgang-fabricius|German Hebrew scholar; born at Hagenau, Alsace, in 1478; died Nov., 1541. In 1515 he was appointed professor of theology at Basel; and eight years|
12916609X|/articles/4008-cappel-louis-ludovicus-cappellus|Christian theologian and Hebrew scholar; descended from an old aristocratic French Hugue-not family; born Oct. 15, 1585; died June 18, 1658. In|
143412914|/articles/4025-carcassonne-david|French physician; born Dec. 20, 1789, at Remoulins, a small town in the Gard department, France; died Nov. 15, 1861, at Nîmes. He was the son of a|
120654369|/articles/4032-cardoso-isaac-fernando|Physician, Philosoph, and polemic writer; born of Marano parents at Celorico in the province Beira, Portugal, before 1615; died at Verona after|
123931029|/articles/4033-cardoso-miguel|Shabbethaian prophet and physician; born in Spain about 1630; died at Cairo 1706. He was a descendant of the Maranos in the Portuguese city of|
101528258X|/articles/4051-carmoly-eliakim|Leaves Ministry for Literature. French scholar; born at Sulz (then in the French department of the Upper Rhine) August 5, 1802; died at|
140847995|/articles/4060-caro-david|Prussian pedagogue; born about 1782 at Fordon, grand duchy of Posen; died Dec. 25, 1839, at Posen. He belonged to the school of the Meassefim, and|
116456884|/articles/4062-caro-georg-martin|Lecturer on history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; born Nov. 28, 1867, at Glogau, Prussia. Caro received his education at the gymnasium|
120209039|/articles/4063-caro-isaac-b-joseph|Spanish Talmudist and Bible commentator; flourished in the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth. The son of a|
116456906|/articles/4064-caro-jacob|German historian; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Feb. 2, 1836; son of Joseph Ḥayyim Caro. After several years of diligent study at the|
118990179|/articles/4065-caro-joseph-b-ephraim|The last great codifier of Rabbinernical Judaism, born in Spain or Portugal in 1488; died at Safed, Palestine, March 24, 1575. After the expulsion of|
1053047584|/articles/4066-caro-joseph-hayyim-b-isaac-selig|German-Russian Rabbiner; born 1800; died in Wloclawek, government of Warsaw, April 21, 1895. He was educated as an Orthodox Talmudist, and married the|
116458593|/articles/4072-carpzov-johann-benedict-ii|German Christian theologian and Hebraist; born 1639; died 1699. He was a member of a family which, like the Buxtorfs, produced a long line of|
116458704|/articles/4073-carpzov-johann-gottlob|German Christian Old Testament scholar; born Sept. 26, 1679, in Dresden; died April 27, 1767, at Lübeck; nephew of Johann Benedict II., and son of|
124699146|/articles/4077-carretus-ludovicus|Convert to Christianity; lived at Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a native of France and was originally called "Todros|
1156310016|/articles/4082-carsono-corsono|Spanish astronomer of the fourteenth century. He was commissioned by King Pedro IV. of Aragon to translate from Catalonian into Hebrew the|
119450208|/articles/4097-casimir-ii-the-just|King of Poland; born 1138; ascended the throne on the deposition of his brother Mieczyslaw III., 1177; died 1194. He was one of the most amiable|
118560425|/articles/4098-casimir-iii-the-great|King of Poland; born 1309; succeeded 1333; died in Cracow Nov. 5, 1370. He was a peaceful ruler, and, by his salutary reforms, strengthened his|
118990217|/articles/4099-casimir-iv-jagellon|Grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland; born 1427; died at Grodno 1492. He succeeded to the grand duchy in 1440, and followed his brother|
102431434|/articles/4107-caspari-charles-paul|German Semite and Biblical scholar; born at Dessau 1814; died 1892. His parents were Jews, and he was reared in the Jewish faith, but in 1838 became|
118640135|/articles/4108-caspi-joseph-ben-abba-mari-ben-joseph-ben-jacob|Provençal exegete, grammarian, and Philosoph; born in 1297 at Largentière, whence his surname "Caspi" (= made of silver); died at Tarascon in|
116468459|/articles/4111-cassel-david|German historian and theologian; born March 7, 1818, at Gross-Glogau, Silesia, Prussia, where he graduated from the gymnasium; died Jan. 22, 1893,|
116468521|/articles/4114-cassel-paulus-stephanus-selig|Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia; died Dec. 23, 1892, in Friedenau, near Berlin. His|
131429221|/articles/4124-castelli-david|Italian scholar; born at Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 30, 1836; died 1901. He was educated at the Rabbinernical college of Leghorn, and from 1857 to 1863 was|
142177040|/articles/4133-castro-sarmento-jacob-henriquez-de|Physician, naturalist, and poet; born about 1691 in Bragança, Portugal; died at London in 1761. At the age of seventeen he entered the University of|
119428288|/articles/4131-castro-adolf-de|Spanish historian; member of the Academia de la Historia of Madrid; lived in Cadiz; died there Oct., 1898. He wrote the first short history of the|
118560565|/articles/4152-catherine-ii|Empress of Russia; born in Stettin May 2, 1729; died in St. Petersburg Nov. 17, 1796. She was the wife and successor of Peter III., and usurped the|
11866753X|/articles/4154-cattaneo-carlo|Italian Christian jurisconsult; born in Milan June 15, 1801; died at Castagnole, near Lugano, Feb. 5, 1869. Although Cattaneo was not favorably|
118519883|/articles/4167-celsus|Greek polemical writer against Christianity; flourished in the second century. He was the first pagan who denounced Christianity, and in his work,|
116480262|/articles/4181-cerf-karl-friedrich|German theatrical manager; born at Unterreissheim-on-the-Main in 1782; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1845. He embraced Christianity when very young, and|
116480319|/articles/4185-cerfberr-auguste-edouard|French author; born at Epinal in 1811; died in 1858. Having completed his studies in law, Cerfberr entered the service of the government, in which|
140727531|/articles/4207-chaikin-moses-avigdor|Rabbi and author; born at Sklow, government of Mohilev, in 1852, and removed at an early age with his father to St. Petersburg, where the latter|
132141191|/articles/4209-chajes|Talmudist, literary historian, and Rabbiner; born at Brody Nov. 20, 1805; died at Lemberg Oct. 12, 1855. His father, a scion of the famous Ḥayot family|
118675508|/articles/4224-chamberlain-houston-stewart|Anglo-German musical critic and anti-Semitic writer; born Sept. 9, 1855, at Portsmouth, England; son of Admiral W. C. Chamberlain. He received his|
118560034|/articles/4250-charlemagne|King of the Franks and emperor of the West; born April, 742; died Jan. 28, 814. His attitude toward the Jews was rather that of a clever Politiker|
116496584|/articles/4277-chazanowicz-joseph|Russian physician, and founder of the Jewish National Library at Jerusalem; born at Goniondz, government of Grodno, Russia, Oct. 22, 1844; son of|
116504455|/articles/4318-cheyne-thomas-kelley|English Christian Biblical critic, and Oriel professor of Biblical exegesis at the University of Oxford, England; born at London Sept. 18, 1841;|
138974578|/articles/4319-chiarini-luigi|Italian abbé; born near Montepulciano, Italy, April 26, 1789; died at Warsaw Feb. 28, 1832. He was appointed professor of history and Oriental|
118520504|/articles/4346-chmielnicki-bogdan-zinovi|Hetman of the Zaporogian Cossacks, born about 1595; died at Chigirin Aug. 16, 1675. Unlike many other Little-Russian pupils of the Jesuits,|
100441505|/articles/4351-chorin-choriner-aaron|Hungarian Rabbiner; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Aug. 3, 1766; died at Arad, Hungary, Aug 24, 1844. At the age of fourteen he studied in the yeshibah|
139343725|/articles/4357-chotzner-joseph|English Rabbiner and author; born at Cracow, Austria, May 11, 1844; educated at the Breslau Rabbinernical seminary and the University of Breslau. After|
128525800|/articles/4363-christiani-friedrich-albrecht|Jewish convert to Christianity; born in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Prossnitz at the beginning of the eighteenth. He was baptized|
1017299196|/articles/4364-christiani-moritz-wilhelm|Author and Jewish convert to Christianity; born at Altorf at the end of the seventeenth century; died at Prague about 1740; probably a member of the|
118520652|/articles/4367-christina-augusta|Queen of Sweden; born at Stockholm Dec. 7, 1626; died at Rome April 19, 1689. She was a daughter of Gustavus Adolphus and Mary Eleanora of|
116510781|/articles/4369-chronegk-ludwig|German actor; born at Brandenburg-on-the-Havel Nov. 3, 1837; died at Meiningen July 8, 1890. He was the stage-manager and "Intendanzrath" of the|
118557831|/articles/4374-chrysostomus-joannes|Patriarch of Constantinople, one of the most celebrated of the Church Fathers, and the most eminent orator of the early Christian period; born in|
118049240|/articles/4383-chwolson-daniel-abramovich|Russian Orientalist; born at Wilna Dec. 15, 1819. As he showed marked ability in the study of Hebrew and Talmud, his parents, who were very|
118520814|/articles/4384-cicero-marcus-tullius|Roman statesman and orator; born 106; died 43 B.C. In 59 he delivered in the Aurelian Forum at Rome a speech in behalf of Flaccus, in which he spoke|
121047091|/articles/4397-citron-samuel-lob|Hebrew writer of fiction and literary critic; born at Minsk, Russia, May 24, 1862. He attended the Rabbinernical school at Wolozhin, and made his first|
116524685|/articles/4401-claar-emil|Austrian poet, playwright, and actor; born Oct. 7, 1842, in Lemberg. Early in life he went to Vienna with the intention of studying medicine; but,|
1044977159|/articles/4406-clavering-robert|Bishop of Peterborough and Christian Hebraist; born in 1671; died July 21, 1747. He was regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1715 until his|
119215152|/articles/4411-clement-xiv-lorenzo-ganganelli|Two hundred and fifty-sixth pope; born at San Arcangelo, near Rimini, Oct. 31, 1705; elected May 19, 1769; died Sept. 22, 1774. His election was|
118676504|/articles/4433-cocceius-koch-johannes|German theologian and Hebraist; born at Bremen 1603; died at Leyden Nov. 5, 1669. He was appointed professor of Hebrew at Bremen in 1629, and at|
1053384750|/articles/4443-coen-benjamin-vitale|Italian Rabbiner; born at Alessandria della Paglia in the second half of the seventeenth century; died at Reggio nell' Emilia in 1739. Descended from a|
119183803|/articles/4445-coen-graziadio-vita-anania|Italian, Rabbiner and scholar; born at Reggio nell' Emilia about 1750: died March 28, 1834. He studied under Sansone Naḥmani and Isaiah Vita Carmi. He|
11887148X|/articles/4447-coen-jan-pieterszoon|Governor-general of Java, and founder of the Dutch colonial system; born at Hoorn, Holland, Jan. 8, 1587; died in 1629. He gained his early|
137523874|/articles/4450-coen-raffaelo-del-fu-vitale|Austrian physician; born at Spalato, Dalmatia, Jan. 19, 1839. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the University of Vienna,|
116833103X|/articles/4460-cohen-alfred-j|American dramatic critic; born May 14, 1861, at Birmingham, England, where he attended King Edward's School. Then followed three years' study of|
1068191228|/articles/4461-cohen-anne-jean-philippe-louis-de-vinkenhoef|French litterateur; born at Amersfort, in the Netherlands, Oct. 17, 1781; died in Paris April 6, 1848. Beginning as a journalist, he contributed to|
124213383|/articles/4463-cohen-arthur|English barrister and king's counsel; born in London Nov. 18, 1830. After three years' study at the gymnasium in Frankfort-on-the-Main, he entered|
116628219|/articles/4471-cohen-emil-wilhelm|German mineralogist; born at Aakjaer, near Horsens, Jutland, Oct. 12, 1842. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, and from 1867|
101388152|/articles/4476-cohen-henri|French composer and numismatist; born at Amsterdam 1805; died at Bry-sur-Marne May 17, 1880. Cohen's parents went to France in 1811, and provided|
13352020X|/articles/4477-cohen-henry|American Rabbiner; born in London April 7, 1863. He was educated in London, and when only eighteen traveled in Africa as interpreter for a French|
118521411|/articles/4479-cohen-hermann|German Philosoph; born in Coswig, Anhalt, Germany, July 4, 1842. He early began to study philosophy, and soon became known as a profound student|
116628626|/articles/4482-cohen-jacob-da-silva-solis|Amerrican laryngologist; born in New York city Feb. 28, 1838. He was educated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, the Jefferson Medical|
1055379126|/articles/4483-cohen-joseph|French journalist; born at Marseilles Nov. 1, 1817; died in Paris 1899. After finishing his studies at Aix, he was admitted to the bar there in|
116628693|/articles/4486-cohen-jules-emile-david|French composer; born at Marseilles Nov. 2, 1830; died in Paris Jan., 1901; studied at the Paris Conservatoire, under Zimmerman, Marmontel, Benoist,|
133537560|/articles/4489-cohen-leonce|French musician; born at Paris Feb. 12, 1829; died 1884. He studied at the Conservatory of Paris under Leborne. In 1851 he received the "Prix de|
1053398530|/articles/4501-cohen-naphtali|Russo-German Rabbiner and cabalist; born in 1649 at Ostrowo in the Ukraine; died at Constantinople Dec. 20, 1718. He belonged to a family of Rabbiners in|
136750109|/articles/4505-cohen-shalom-ben-jacob|Polish Hebraist; born at Meseritz (Mezhiryechye), Poland, Dec. 23, 1772; died at Hamburg Feb. 20, 1845. Prompted by a love for learning which he|
141918985|/articles/4507-cohen-solomon-da-silva-solis|American physician; born at Philadelphia, Pa., Sept., 1857. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from the Central High School in 1872. From|
14240330X|/articles/4527-cohn-kohn-meshullam-solomon|German Rabbiner; born about 1739; died at Fürth Dec. 17, 1819. After having spent a few years in the yeshibot of Posen and Zülz, Cohn went to the|
136750044|/articles/4514-cohn-albert|French philanthropist and scholar; born in Presburg, Hungary, Sept. 14, 1814; died at Paris March 15, 1877. He belonged to an Alsatian family which|
116629150|/articles/4516-cohn-emil|German physicist; born at Neu-Strelitz Sept. 28, 1854; studied at the University of Strasburg, whence he was graduated as Ph.D. in 1878. From 1881|
141380969|/articles/4517-cohn-falk|German Rabbiner; born at Dessau Sept. 18, 1833; died at Bonn March 6, 1901. The son of a Rabbiner and teacher at the Herzogliche Franzschule at Dessau, he|
116629207|/articles/4518-cohn-ferdinand-julius|German botanist and zoologist; born in Breslau Jan. 24, 1828; died there June 25, 1898; eldest son of Isaac Cohn, an oil manufacturer, who for some|
116629304|/articles/4519-cohn-georg-ludwig|German jurist; born Sept. 19, 1845, at Breslau, Germany. He was honorary professor in German civil and commercial law at the Heidelberg University|
116629355|/articles/4520-cohn-gustav|German economist; born Sept. 12, 1840, at Marienwerder, West Prussia. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Jena. During 1867 and 1868 he was|
11662941X|/articles/4521-cohn-hermann-l|German ophthalmologist; born at Breslau June 4, 1838. After graduating from the gymnasium of his native town he studied chemistry and physics at the|
117645117|/articles/4522-cohn-lassar|German chemist; born at Hamburg Sept. 6, 1858. After attending the gymnasium at Königsberg, he studied chemistry at different universities, taking|
128190043|/articles/4524-cohn-leopold|German author and philologist; born Jan. 14, 1856, at Zempelburg, province of West Prussia. He received his education at the gymnasium at Culm, West|
116629703|/articles/4525-cohn-ludwig-adolf|German historian; born in Breslau May 22, 1834; died in Göttingen Jan. 13, 1871. He belonged to a prominent family of merchants. Physically deformed|
1035169444|/articles/4528-cohn-moritz|Austrian writer; born at Kreuzburg, Silesia, Jan. 8, 1844. Educated at the high school of Brieg, he began life as a clerk in a merchant's office,|
116636165|/articles/4529-cohn-oskar-justinus|German writer; born at Breslau Feb. 21, 1839; died at Bad Nauheim Aug. 6, 1893. Educated for a mercantile career, he succeeded his father as head of|
134192559|/articles/4533-cohn-tobias|Polish physician; born at Metz, Germany, 1652; died at Jerusalem 1729. His grandfather was the physician Eleazar Kohn, who emigrated from Palestine|
138612501|/articles/4534-cohn-tobias|German Rabbiner and writer; born at Hammerstein, West Prussia, Feb. 2, 1826. After graduating from the normal school, he conducted the Jewish|
1055419861|/articles/4535-cohn-toby|German physician and medical author; born at Breslau Dec. 26, 1866. Cohn was educated at the Elisabeth gymnasium of his native city and at the|
116636300|/articles/4536-cohnfeld-adalbert-dorotheus-solomon|German author; born in Pyritz, Pomerania, Aug. 3, 1809; died in Berlin Jan. 20, 1868. He lived in Ḅreslau during the earlier part of his life, and|
116636335|/articles/4537-cohnheim-julius|German pathologist; born at Demmin, Pomerania, July 20, 1839; died in Leipsic Aug. 15, 1884. He studied at the universities of Würzburg, Marburg,|
1055449140|/articles/4538-cohnheim-paul|German physician; born at Labes, in Pomerania, Dec. 2, 1867. He was educated at the gymnasium at Stettin and the universities of Berlin, Freiburg in|
1055462821|/articles/4539-cohnstein-isidor|German gynecologist; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Aug. 1, 1841; died at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, July 25, 1894. He received his|
117692298|/articles/4544-colenso-john-william|Bishop of Natal and English Biblical critic; born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Jan. 24, 1814; died Jan. 20, 1883. He was educated at St. John's|
122765486|/articles/4553-colon-joseph-b-solomon|The foremost Talmudist of Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century; born probably at Chambéry, Savoy, about 1420; died at Padua 1480. Colon|
1065459882|/articles/4559-colorni-colorno-abraham|Italian engineer; born at Mantua about 1530. His great skill in his profession caused him to be much sought after, and in 1578 he held the position|
119155370|/articles/4580-comtino-mordecai-ben-eliezer|Turkish Talmudist and scientist; lived at Adrianople and Constantinople; died in the latter city between 1485 and 1490. The earliest date attached|
1055405038|/articles/4600-conforte|Hebrew literary historian; born in Salonica about 1618; died about 1685. Conforte came of a family of scholars. His early instructors were R. Israel|
116656069|/articles/4617-consolo-federico|Italian violin virtuoso, composer, and scholar; born at Ancona in 1841. After studying the violin with Giorgetti in Florence and Vieuxtemps in|
118565184|/articles/4620-constantine-i-flavius-valerius-aurelius-constantinus|Roman emperor; born Feb. 27, 274; died May 22, 337; proclaimed emperor by the army in Gaul on the death of his father, Constantius Chlorus (306). He|
1037583949|/articles/4649-cordova-isaac-hezekiah-b-jacob|Publisher in the latter part of the seventeenth and the first part of the eighteenth century; son of Jacob b. Moses Raphael de Cordova. After a|
1089687079|/articles/4660-corinaldi-david-hayyim|Italian Rabbiner and author of the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of N. Pincherle, and Rabbiner at Reggio, Leghorn, and Triest. He|
140692509|/articles/4669-coronel-nahman-nathan|Palestinian scholar of Sephardic-Ashkenazic parentage; born at Amsterdam 1810; died at Jerusalem Aug. 6, 1890. His teacher was R. Abraham Susan. In|
122629272|/articles/4675-correa-isabella-rebecca|Spanish poetess of the seventeenth century; born in Spain; lived successively in Brussels, Antwerp, and Amsterdam; wife of the cosmographer D.|
118871811|/articles/4677-correnti-cesare|Italian statesman and author; born in Milan Jan. 3, 1815; died at Lesa, Novara, Oct. 4, 1888. He was one of the best friends of the Jews in Italy|
105305856X|/articles/4683-coslin-hayyim-ben-naphtali|Talmudical scholar and Hebrew grammarian of Berlin; died at Stettin, Prussia, March 21, 1832. He wrote the following works: (1) "Maslul," a Hebrew|
10020807X|/articles/4690-costa-emanuel-mendez-da|Librarian and fellow of the Royal Society of London, scientific writer, and fellow of the Antiquarian Society of London; born in 1717; died in 1791.|
118918699|/articles/4691-costa-isaac-da|Dutch poet; born Jan. 14, 1798, at Amsterdam; died there April 28, 1860. His father, Daniel da Costa, a relative of Uriel Acosta, was a prominent|
1159227799|/articles/4692-costa-israele-di-emanuele|Italian Rabbiner; born 1819; died 1897. He succeeded Abraham Baruch Piperno as Rabbiner of Leghorn in 1864. Of his works the following may be mentioned:|
121302547|/articles/4694-costa-sir-michael|Musical composer and conductor; born at Naples of a Sephardic family Feb. 4, 1810; died in Brighton April 29, 1884. He studied under his father,|
133305236|/articles/4697-coster-abraham|Dutch anti-Jewish preacher; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He wrote "Histoire der Joden," a history of the Jews from their|
131994883|/articles/4700-cota-rodrigo|Spanish poet; born at Toledo; died 1497. He came of a Marano family, three members of which—Francisco Cota, Lopez Cota, and Juan Fernandez Cota—were|
113058039|/articles/4704-coudenhove-count-heinrich-von|Austrian author, traveler, and diplomat; born in Vienna Oct. 12, 1859. Count Heinrich studied law at the University of Vienna; served as volunteer|
116706066|/articles/4719-cowen-frederic-hymen|English conductor and composer; born at Kingston, Jamaica, Jan 29, 1852; at the age of four he was taken to England. From his earliest years he|
141629932|/articles/4737-crehange-alexandre-ben-baruch|French Hebraist; born at Etain, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1791; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1872. He acted as secretary to the Hebrew|
11775160X|/articles/4738-creizenach-michael|German educator and theologian; born in Mayence May 16, 1789; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 5, 1842. Creizenach is one of the most typical|
116718838|/articles/4739-creizenach-theodor|German poet and historian of literature; son of Michael Creizenach; born April 17, 1818, in Mayence; died Dec. 6, 1877, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. He|
124897614|/articles/4744-cremieux-gaston|French socialist and writer; born at Nîmes June 22, 1836; died at Marseilles Dec. 1, 1871. He entered upon an active career as attorney and|
119545438|/articles/4746-cremieux-hector-jonathan|French dramatist; born at Paris Nov. 10, 1828; died there in 1892; of the same family as Isaac Adolphe Crémieux. After a preparatory course of|
118902873|/articles/4747-cremieux-isaac-adolphe|French statesman; born at Nîmes April 22, 1796; died in Paris Feb. 9, 1880. He was educated at the Lycée Impérial, where he and a cousin were the|
11852271X|/articles/4753-crescas-hasdai-ben-abraham|Religious Philosoph; born in Barcelona, Spain, 1340; died 1410. He was of an illustrious and learned family, in "Ḳore ha-Dorot" falsely designated|
121105768|/articles/4761-cresques-lo-juheu|Chartographer who flourished at Majorca and Barcelona at the end of the fourteenth century. Prince Juan of Aragon sent to Charles VI. of France in|
132470004|/articles/4788-csemegi-karl|President of the Hungarian Supreme Court of Judicature; born in Csongrad May 3, 1826; died March 18, 1899. Csemegi received his early education in|
116750820|/articles/4789-csillag-rosa|Hungarian opera-singer; born about 1840. She attracted much attention in the chorus of the Hungarian National Theater at Budapest. Trained by|
118567969|/articles/4796-culi-jacob|Talmudist and Biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; died at Constantinople Aug. 9, 1732. He belonged to an exiled|
118670689|/articles/4800-cumberland-richard|English dramatist; born in the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge, Feb. 19, 1732; died at Tunbridge Wells May 7, 1811. He was educated at|
116758058|/articles/4802-cunaeus-petrus|Dutch Christian and Rabbinernical scholar; born at Flushing 1586; died at Leyden Dec. 2, 1638. From 1617 until his death he was professor of|
1155616685|/articles/4811-curiel-jacob|Resident of the Portuguese court at Hamburg about the middle of the seventeenth century; died there in 1665. He had lived previously at Amsterdam,|
118588095|/articles/4814-cusa-nicolaus-de|Philosopher and theologian; born in Cusa, or Kues, on the Moselle, 1401; died in Todi, Umbria, 1464. He was Bishop and Cardinal of Brixan (Tyrol) at|
103517502|/articles/4830-czacki-tadeusz|Polish statesman and author; born in Poryck, government of Volhynia, Russia, Aug. 28, 1765; died in Dubno, Volhynia, Feb. 8, 1813. When Prince Adam|
121063763|/articles/4831-czarniecki-stefan|Polish general; born 1599; died at the village of Sokolovka, Volhynia, Feb. 12, 1664. Czarniecki distinguished himself in the wars against Sweden|
118523171|/articles/4833-czartoryski-prince-adam-georg|Polish statesman and patriot; born in Warsaw Jan. 14, 1770; died in Montfermeil Castle, near Paris, July 15, 1861. After the final partition of|
119478242|/articles/4835-czechowic-martin|Polish Unitarian priest; born at Zbaszynie about 1530; died 1613. Czechowic lived at a time when religious restlessness was prevalent in Poland.|
124282652|/articles/4840-czynski-jan-jean|Polish lawyer, author, and journalist; born June 20, 1801; died in London, England, Jan. 31, 1867. The son of Jewish parents who had embraced Roman|
102383499|/articles/3885-caecilius-of-calacte|Rhetorician, critic, and historian; flourished in the first century B.C. at Calacte, a town on the northern coast of Sicily. He was the first Jew|
118518275|/articles/3886-caesar-caius-julius|Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror; born July 12, 100 B.C. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.); assassinated March 15, 44 B.C. Cæsar's attitude|
118526014|/articles/5228-disraeli-benjamin-earl-of-beaconsfield|English statesman; born at London, England, Dec. 21, 1804; died there April 19, 1881. The son of Isaac D'Israeli, he was descended from a wealthy|
118672061|/articles/5229-d-israeli-isaac|English author; born at Enfield, Middlesex, May, 1766; died at Bradenham Jan. 19, 1848. He was the only son of Benjamin D'Israeli, and after|
1089644701|/articles/4843-dacosta-isaac-francis|Musician and composer; born at Bordeaux Jan. 17, 1778; died there Nov. 29, 1864. He was a pupil of the Musical Conservatory in 1798. Later, while|
118720961|/articles/4851-dalberg-karl-theodor-baron-von|Archbishop of Mayence and subsequently Grand Duke of Frankfort-on-the-Main; born Feb. 8, 1744; died Feb. 10, 1817. He was one of the noblest German|
116017694|/articles/4858-daly-charles-p|Historian and jurist; born in New York city 1816; died in 1899. Daly was of Roman Catholic parentage. He was admitted to the bar at the age of|
118593331|/articles/4863-damiani-peter|Italian prelate; born at Ravenna 1007; died at Faenza 1072. About 1035 he entered the convent of Fonte Avellana near Gubbio, of which he became|
116020768|/articles/4865-damrosch-leopold|German-American violinist and conductor; born at Posen, Prussia, Oct. 22, 1832; died in New York Feb. 15, 1885. He commenced to learn the violin at|
1052705022|/articles/4870-danhauser-adolphe-leopold|French musician; born in Paris Feb. 26, 1835; died there June 9, 1896. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Bazin, Halévy, and Reber; took|
1052827292|/articles/4888-danon-abraham|Turkish writer; born at Adrianople, European Turkey, in 1857; attended the Talmud Torah in that city, pursuing his Talmudic studies at a yeshibah.|
118523708|/articles/4893-dante-alighieri|Florentine poet; born 1265; died at Ravenna Sept. 14, 1321. Dante took an active part in the political feuds then distracting his native city, and|
116025883|/articles/4894-danz-johann-andreas|German theologian and Hebraist; born at Sundhausen, near Gotha, 1654; died at Jena Dec. 22, 1727. Danz studied at Wittenberg and at Hamburg, where|
141602090|/articles/4896-danzig-abraham-ben-jehiel|His Youth. Lithuanian codifier; born in Danzig in 1747 or 1748; died at Wilna Sept. 12, 1820. He was descended from a family of scholars in West|
138636680|/articles/10720-meshullam-ben-solomon|Poet; lived at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Although Jedaiah Bedersi, in his "Iggeret Hitnaẓẓelut," classes Meshullam among the|
131592459|/articles/4905-darmesteter-arsene|French philologist and brother of James Darmesteter; born at Château-Salins Jan. 5, 1846; died at Paris Nov. 16, 1888. Darmesteter, who came as a|
117622567|/articles/4906-darmesteter-james|French Orientalist; born March 28, 1849, at Château-Salins, Lorraine; died Oct. 19, 1894, at Paris. His parents were from a family established in|
1146198663|/articles/10986-mordecai-dato-ben-judah|Italian payeṭan; lived in Ferrara in the sixteenth century. The name "Dato" is the Italian equivalent of "Nathan." He added some notes, under the|
1055403221|/articles/4934-david-tevele-b-benjamin|German Talmudic scholar; born at Posen; died at Ottensee, near Hamburg, 1699. He wrote the following works: "Masoret ha-Berit" (The Bond of the|
1053047347|/articles/4967-david-tevele-ben-moses|Russian Rabbiner and author; born in Turetz, in the government of Minsk, 1792; died at Minsk April 27, 1861. At the age of fifteen he went to Volozhin,|
1055410317|/articles/4979-david-b-samuel-ha-levi|Polish Rabbiner; born in Lodmir or Vladimir, Volhynia, about 1586 (see Grätz, "Gesch." x. 57, and "Ḳin'at Soferim," p. 48b, note 809); died in Lemberg|
173762239|/articles/4933-david-ben-aryeh-loeb-of-lida|Lithuanian Rabbiner of the seventeeth century. On hismother's side he was a nephew of R. Moses Rivkes, author of "Be'er ha-Golah." At first Rabbiner of|
136604382|/articles/4944-david-ben-hayyim-ha-kohen|Rabbi at Corfu, and later at Patros, Greece, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Judah Minz, and a contemporary of Elijah|
1041810237|/articles/4961-david-ben-levi|Rabbi of Narbonne, France; flourished at the end of the thirteenth century. From the fact that he speaks of R. Samuel Shekili, who was probably his|
124043860|/articles/4977-david-ben-samuel-of-estella-kokabi|Provençal scholar; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was a native of Estella, whence his name "Kokabi" (Starlike), the|
124668089|/articles/4981-david-ben-solomon-ibn-abi-zimra|Spanish Talmudist and cabalist; born in Spain about 1479; died at Safed, Palestine, 1589. He was thirteen years of age when his parents, banished|
101840284|/articles/4938-david-christian-georg-nathan|Danish political economist and Politiker; born at Copenhagen Jan. 16, 1793; died there June 18, 1874. Christian received his education in his|
102199191|/articles/4941-david-ferdinand|Violinist and violin-teacher; born at Hamburg Jan. 19, 1810; died suddenly July 19, 1873, near Kloster, Switzerland, while on a mountain tour with|
118671103|/articles/4949-david-jacob-julius|Austrian journalist and author; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1859. Immediately after his birth his parents removed to Fulnek, Moravia,|
116037784|/articles/4976-david-samuel|French musician; born in Paris Nov. 12, 1836; died there Oct. 3, 1895. He received his musical education at the Conservatoire, where he was a pupil|
127819177|/articles/4987-davids-arthur-lumley|English Orientalist; born in London 1811; died from a sudden attack of cholera July 19, 1832. At an early age he applied himself more particularly|
116038136|/articles/4989-davidsohn-georg|German journalist; born at Danzig, Prussia, Dec. 19, 1835; died in Berlin Feb. 6, 1897. He was originally destined for a merchant's career, but in|
116038179|/articles/4991-davidsohn-robert|German journalist; younger brother of Georg Davidsohn; born at Danzig April 26, 1853. He joined his brother on the editorial staff of the "Berliner|
141242876|/articles/4992-davidson-andrew-b|Professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages in New College, Edinburgh; born at Kirkhill, in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1831;|
128877251|/articles/4993-davidson-benjamin|English Orientalist of Jewish birth; died 1871. He was a worker for the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews, and when|
1078256225|/articles/4995-davidson-thomas|Philosopher and lecturer; born of Presbyterian parents at Deer, near Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 25, 1840; died at Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 14, 1900.|
1050460103|/articles/5000-davis-james-owen-hall|English playwright and journalist; born about 1848. He was educated at University College, London, and took the degree of bachelor of laws in 1869.|
1053046510|/articles/5003-davis-myer-david|English educationist and writer; born in London 1830. He was educated at Jews' Free School, in which he ultimately became Talmud Torah master.|
120952017|/articles/5004-davis-nathan|Traveler and archeologist; born 1812; died at Florence Jan. 6, 1882. He spent many years of his life in northern Africa, and for some years lived in|
118524097|/articles/5005-dawison-davidsohn-bogumil|Actor; born at Warsaw May 15, 1818; died at Dresden Feb. 1, 1872. In his boyhood he earned a precarious living as itinerant correspondent for|
119300583|/articles/5036-deckert-francis|Clerical anti-Semitic agitator; born at Vienna 1846; died there March 21, 1901. From its beginning in the eighth decade of the nineteenth century|
1015264611|/articles/5037-deckingen-judah-ben-benjamin|German lexicographer of the sixteenth century. He was the pupil of Isaac of Ahrweiler, and lived as tutor at Wendersheim (1555), Rüsselheim, and|
141826460|/articles/5052-del-bene-david|Italian Rabbiner; born at Mantua in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died at Ferrara in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Possessed of|
1062590503|/articles/5054-delacrut-ben-solomon|Polish scholar; lived in the middle of the sixteenth century. He settled early in Italy, and at one time seems to have attended the lectures on|
118524550|/articles/5063-delitzsch-franz|Christian Hebraist; born at Leipsic Feb. 23, 1813; died there March 4, 1890. He was not of Jewish descent; although, owing to his Rabbinernical|
119456710|/articles/5066-delmedigo-elijah-cretensis-ben-moses-abba|Cretan Philosoph and physician; born in Candia in 1460; died there March, 1497 (Grätz, "Geschichte," 3d ed., viii. 244, note). Elijah was|
12242901X|/articles/5068-delmedigo-joseph-solomon|Philosopher and physician; born at Candia June 16, 1591; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1655; son of Elijah, Rabbiner of Candia. Joseph received a thorough|
1045175390|/articles/5075-dembitzer-hayyim-nathan|Galician Rabbiner and historian; born in Cracow June 29, 1820; died there Nov. 20, 1892. His father, Jekuthiel Solomon, a scholarly merchant who|
130812560|/articles/5083-demidov-pavel-pavlovich|Prince of San-Donato, Russian jurist, and philanthropist; born in 1839; died in 1885. He was a member of a well-known Russian family of nobles whose|
116073934|/articles/5094-depping-georges-bernard|German-French historian; born in Münster, Germany, May 11, 1784; died in Paris Sept. 5, 1853. He went to Paris in 1803, where he lived as teacher|
11867787X|/articles/5106-dernburg-heinrich|German jurist; born at Mayence March 3, 1829; brother of Friedrich Dernburg. The Dernburgs are related to the French family of Derenbourg, which,|
118677896|/articles/5108-derzhavin-gavriil-romanovich|Russian poet and senator; born at Kazan July 15, 1743; died at Zvanka, government of Novgorod, July 20, 1816. In 1799 Derzhavin was commissioned by|
116085126|/articles/5117-dessauer-ferdinand-dessoir-ferdinand-august|German actor; son of Leopold Dessauer; born at Breslau Jan. 29, 1836; died in Dresden April 15, 1892. He was trained for the stage by Werner|
101057903|/articles/5119-dessauer-josef|German composer; born at Prague May 28, 1798; died at Mödling, near Vienna, July 8, 1876; a pupil of Tomaczek (piano) and Dionys Weber|
118671650|/articles/5121-dessauer-leopold-dessoir-ludwig|German actor; born at Posen Dec. 15, 1810; died Dec. 30, 1874, in Berlin. Dessauer, who was known during his stage career as "Dessoir," was the son|
139692479|/articles/5122-dessauer-moritz|German Rabbiner and author; son of Gabriel L. Dessauer; born at Balaton-Kojár, Hungary, May 24, 1842; died April 17, 1895, at Meiningen. He pursued his|
116085053|/articles/5123-dessoff-felix-otto|German conductor and composer; born Jan. 14, 1835, in Leipsic; died Oct. 28, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main; studied with Moscheles, Plaidy (piano),|
116086246|/articles/5128-detmold-johann-hermann|German diplomat; born at Hanover July 24,1807; died there March 17, 1856. He was the son of Detmold, the court physician at Hanover, who, with his|
1033276251|/articles/5129-detmold-samuel|Austrian educator and translator; lived at the end of the eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was one of the|
1066281610|/articles/5138-deutsch-aaron-david|Hungarian Rabbiner and Talmudic author; born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, about 1812; died at Balassa-Gyarmath, Hungary, April 26, 1878. He received his early|
1011619490|/articles/5142-deutsch-de-hatvan-alexander|Hungarian merchant and financier; born at Arad Nov. 17, 1852. He was educated in Budapest and Berlin. As the head of the firm of Ignatz Deutsch|
117291226|/articles/5136-deutsch-caroline|German novelist; born at Namesto, a small Hungarian village, Feb. 23, 1846. Her father, a Rabbiner, was German in culture, and the German language and|
121770095|/articles/5137-deutsch-david|German Rabbiner; born at Zülz, Silesia, 1810; died at Sohrau, Silesia, July 31, 1873. He was brought up by his relative Menahem Deutsch, at Breslau. He|
11608751X|/articles/5140-deutsch-emanuel-oscar-menahem|Orientalist; born at Neisse, in Silesia, Oct. 28, 1829; died at Alexandria, Egypt, May 12, 1873. His early training was conducted by his uncle,|
1050460162|/articles/5141-deutsch-gotthard|Theologian; born at Kanitz, Austria, Jan. 31, 1859. The descendant of a Rabbinernical family (see Braunschweig, Jacob Eliezer) and the son of a|
1053062125|/articles/5144-deutsch-israel|German Rabbiner; born in Zülz, Prussian Silesia, April 2, 1800; died in Beuthen June 7, 1853. From 1829 until his death he officiated as Rabbiner in|
13678478X|/articles/5148-deutsch-simon|Austrian Hebraist and revolutionist; died at Constantinople March 24, 1877. As a young man he devoted himself to Hebrew studies in Vienna, and|
173079024|/articles/5176-dick-isaac-mayer|Russian Hebraist and novelist; born in Wilna 1808 (of the various dates the one given by "Aḥiasaf" is probably most nearly correct); died there Jan.|
1074150457|/articles/5177-dick-leopold|German artist and professor of engraving; born 1817; died June 23, 1854. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Munich, and became well known|
118525239|/articles/5178-dickens-charles|English novelist; born Feb. 7, 1812, at 387 Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Landport, Portsea; died June 9, 1870, at Gadshill, near Rochester,|
118525263|/articles/5184-diderot-denis|French Philosoph and encyclopedist; born at Langres Oct. 5, 1713; died at Paris July 30, 1784. Although, like all the French encyclopedists, an|
104254912|/articles/5186-diego-de-valencia|Spanish troubadour of the fifteenth century; born of Jewish parentage at Valencia de Don Juan, in the kingdom of Leon. After his conversion to|
11612783X|/articles/5197-dillmann-august|German theologian and Orientalist; born at Illingen, Württemberg, April 25, 1823; died at Berlin July 4, 1894. When Hengstenberg died in 1869,|
141470127|/articles/5199-dillon-maria-lvovna|Russian sculptress; born at St. Petersburg in 1859. She entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg in 1875, and was graduated|
118525824|/articles/5212-dion-cassius|Historian; born about 155 at Nicæa in Bithynia; held the highest offices of state in the Roman empire; became consul in 221; died about 240. He|
118843400|/articles/5214-dioscorides-pedacius|Greek physician of the first century. His "Materia Medica" is mentioned in a Hebrew medical work called "Midrash ha-Refu'ot," attributed to Asaf ben|
119256347|/articles/5223-diskin-joshua-lob-ben-benjamin|Russian Rabbiner; born at Grodno, Russia, Dec. 10, 1818; died at Jerusalem Jan. 22, 1898. At thirteen he married Sarah, the daughter of a good family|
1048574288|/articles/5225-dispeck-david-ben-joel|Talmudic scholar and homilist; born about the year 1744. He studied in the yeshibah under Joshua Cohen, among his companions being Joseph Steinhard|
117645567|/articles/5232-dittel-leopold-ritter-von|Austrian surgeon; born at Fulneck, Moravia, May 15, 1815; died at Vienna July 28, 1898. He was educated at the gymnasia of Troppau and Brünn, and at|
137802498|/articles/5241-dlugosz|Biblical commentator and poet of the seventeenth century; born in Grodno, Lithuania. He edited the Prophets and the Hagiographa in the Judæo-German|
119412055|/articles/5247-dobruska-moses|Austrian writer and poet; born July 12, 1753, in Brünn, Moravia; guillotined April 5, 1793, at Paris. The son of a wealthy Jew, Dobruska was|
143954326|/articles/5249-doczy-dux-ludwig|Hungarian poet; born at Sopron [Oedenburg], Hungary, Nov. 30, 1845. After finishing his preliminary education he studied law in Vienna, joining at|
118680145|/articles/5256-dohm-christian-wilhelm-von|German historian and political writer; advocate of the Jews, and friend of Moses Mendelssohn; born in Lemgo Dec. 11, 1751; died on his estate near|
100110592|/articles/5267-dominico-irosolimitano|Talmudist, physician, author, and expurgator of Hebrew books; born in Safed, Palestine, about 1550; died in Italy about 1620. He was educated at the|
118672231|/articles/5268-domitian|Roman emperor 81-96; born in 51; assassinated in 96. In 69, when his father Vespasian was proclaimed emperor, Domitian was the center of the Flavian|
117650641|/articles/5272-donath-eduard|Austrian chemist; born in Wsetin, Moravia, Dec. 8, 1848. He became assistant in Zinřck's chemical institute in Berlin, 1869; assistant at the|
1055183973|/articles/5273-donath-leopold|Rabbi; born 1845 at Waag-Neustadtl, Hungary; died 1876 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg; pupil of Israel Hildesheimer. After studying at Berlin University,|
102441685|/articles/5279-donnolo|Italian physician, and writer on medicine and astrology; born at Oria, in 913; died after 982. When twelve years of age he was made prisoner by the|
1036841340|/articles/5293-dositheus|Founder of the Dositheans. Founder of a Samaritan sect; lived probably in the first century of the common era. According to Pseudo-Tertullian|
118672401|/articles/5300-drach-david-paul|Librarian of the Propaganda in Rome; born at Strasburg March 6, 1791; died in Rome Jan., 1865. Drach received his early education from his father,|
1137290463|/articles/5302-drachman-bernard|American educator and Rabbiner; born in New York city June 27, 1861. He is a descendant of a Rabbinernical family, and was educated at the High School,|
1050567536|/articles/5312-dreifus-markus-g|Swiss teacher and editor; born at Endingen, canton Aargau, Switzerland, 1812; died at Zurich May 30, 1877. After attending the Talmud school and the|
116222522|/articles/5317-dreyfus-abraham|French journalist and dramatist; born at Paris June 21, 1847. His first literary efforts took the form of two poetic fantasies (1870). To these were|
129616451|/articles/5319-dreyfus-ferdinand|French Politiker and deputy; born at Paris May 5, 1849. He became editor of the "Siècle," and was elected by the Republican party (March, 1880) as|
172500192|/articles/5320-dreyfus-ferdinand-camille|French Politiker; born in Paris Aug. 19, 1851. After a classical and commercial education he prepared himself for the Ecole Polytechnique, but on|
123849349|/articles/5328-driver-samuel-rolles|English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon of Christ Church,|
137714920|/articles/5333-drucker-hayyim-b-jacob|Printer of Amsterdam at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. His activity as a typesetter, publisher, author, and|
118672517|/articles/5336-drumont-edouard-adolphe|French anti-Semitic author and former deputy from Algeria; born at Paris on May 3, 1844. Drumont's ancestry is not Jewish, as has been sometimes|
133874206|/articles/5347-dubno-solomon-ben-joel|Russian poet, grammarian, and student of the Masorah; born at Dubno, Volhynia, Oct., 1738; died at Amsterdam June 26, 1813. When he was fourteen|
118942859|/articles/5348-dubnow-simon-semion-markovich|His Journalistic Activity. V05p007001.jpgSolomon Dubno.Russo Jewish historian; born at Mstis. lavl, government of Mohilev, 1860. He attended the|
1033880833|/articles/5352-dueren-isaac-ben-meir|German Rabbiner and codifier; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century at Dueren, from which place he took his name. He was one of the|
116243678|/articles/5354-dukes-leopold|Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in the|
1057550434|/articles/5359-dunash-ben-labrat|Philologist and poet of the tenth century. For the name "Dunash," which Joseph Ḳimḥi on one occasion ("Sefer ha-Galui," p.62), for the sake of the|
124853188|/articles/5360-dunash-ibn-tamim|Scholar of the tenth century and pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was "Abu Sahl"; his surname, according to|
130399582|/articles/5362-dunner-joseph-hirsch|Rabbi; born at Cracow Jan., 1833; received his Rabbinernical education at his native place; studied philosophy and Oriental philology at Bonn and|
118528165|/articles/5363-duns-scotus-john|Franciscan monk, theologian, and scholiast; born at Dunston, North umberland, England (according to some, at Dun, Ireland), in 1266 (?); died in|
118672827|/articles/5364-duport-adrien|French lawyer and friend of the Jews; born in 1758; died in exile 1798. He became a deputy to the States-General in 1789, and from the first was a|
118528297|/articles/5368-durkheim-emile|French writer; born at Epinal, in the department of Vosges, France, April15, 1858. He was educated at the college of his native town, and later in|
142886033|/articles/5369-durlacher-elcan|Hebraist and publisher; born at Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1817; died Dec. 21, 1889. He went to Paris in 1845 as a teacher of languages, and founded a|
130144320|/articles/5371-duschak-moritz|Austrian Rabbiner and author; born in Triesch, Moravia, Nov. 14, 1815; died in Vienna July 21, 1890. He was a pupil in Talmud of R. Moses Sofer of|
140270671|/articles/5373-duschinsky-wilhelm|Austrian writer; born in Strasnitz, Moravia, May 6, 1860. He attended the gymnasium in Vienna, and afterward studied Romanic and Germanic philology|
116259256|/articles/5377-dux-adolf|Hungarian writer; born at Presburg Oct. 25, 1822; died at Budapest Nov. 20, 1881; cousin of Leopold Dukes. He studied law and philosophy at the|
116332522|/articles/5409-eberty-george-friedrich-felix|German jurist and author; born in Berlin Jan. 26,1812; died at Arnsdorf (Riesengebirge) July 7, 1884. He was educated at the universities of Berlin|
116334231|/articles/5414-ebstein-wilhelm|German physician; born in Jauer, Prussian Silesia, Nov. 27, 1836. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin, graduating from the|
11852870X|/articles/5420-eck-johann-maier-von|Catholic theologian; born at Eck, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1486; died in Ingolstadt Feb. 10, 1543. One of the most active antagonists of Luther, he was an|
110781376X|/articles/5424-edel-judah-low-ben-moses-ha-levi|Russian preacher; born at Zamoscz, government of Lublin, Poland; died at Slonim 1827. He was a pupil of Elijah Wilna, and, besides possessing great|
136793746|/articles/5425-edelmann-hen-tob-hirsch|Author and editor; born in Swislocz, Russia, 1805; died at Berlin, Nov. 20, 1858. He was the son of a Rabbinernical scholar, and received a good|
137786395|/articles/5426-edelmann-simhah-reuben|Russian grammarian and commentator; born in Wilna Jan., 1821; died in Warsaw Dec., 1892. He received a good Talmudical education at home and later|
138413363|/articles/5427-edels-samuel-eliezer-ben-judah|Polish Rabbiner; born in Posen, 1555; died at Ostrog Nov. 30, 1631. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Moses Ashkenazi, author of "Zikron Mosheh." Samuel|
115471510|/articles/5430-edersheim-alfred|Christian theologian and missionary to the Jews; born at Vienna, of Jewish parents, March 7, 1825; died at Menton March 16, 1889. He embraced|
121384292|/articles/5433-edinger-markus|German deputy; born at Worms Jan. 14, 1808; died at Mannheim Feb. 9, 1879. He was the first Jew summoned by the government to act as juror, serving|
173828698|/articles/5435-edrehi-moses|Moroccan cabalist and teacher of modern and Oriental languages of the earlier part of the nineteenth century; born in Morocco; resided in Amsterdam|
1053420129|/articles/5455-egra-meshullam-ben-samson|Austrian Rabbiner; born in Galicia 1733; died at Presburg Sept. 21, 1785. Egra's father was of Buczacz, Galicia, but Meshullam Egra was at Brody as a|
141728299|/articles/5458-ehrenkranz-benjamin-wolf|Galician Yiddish poet; born in Zbaraz, Galicia, about 1812; died about 1882. He spent many years in Rumania and southern Russia, wandering from|
105691999X|/articles/5460-ehrentheil-moritz|Hungarian educator and writer; born at Szilágy-Nagyfalu in 1825; died at Budapest Dec. 27, 1894. After teaching in various cities, he established|
1051900611|/articles/5461-ehrlich-adolph-abraham-abele|Russian educator and Rabbiner; born in Mitau, Courland, Sept. 20, 1837. In 1858 he became teacher of the Hebrew language and religion at the Jewish|
107320177|/articles/5462-ehrlich-arnold|Bible critic; born in Volodovka, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia, Jan. 15, 1848. Educated at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin, he later became|
116408936|/articles/5463-ehrlich-heinrich|German composer, pianist, and musical critic; born at Vienna Oct. 5, 1822; died Dec. 20, 1899. He began his musical career at Bucharest and Jassy,|
118529358|/articles/5465-ehrlich-paul|German physician; born at Strehlen, Prussian Silesia, March 14, 1854. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg-in-Baden,|
1068842040|/articles/5466-ehrmann-daniel|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Muttersdorf, Bohemia, in 1816; died at Brünn Nov. 15, 1882. After studying at Budapest and Prague, he became Rabbiner and|
116409770|/articles/5468-eibenschutz-albert|German pianist; born in Berlin April 15, 1857; studied pianoforte under Reinecke and composition under Paul at the Leipsic Conservatorium. He was|
105305128X|/articles/5469-eibenschutz-david-solomon|Russian Rabbiner and author; died in Safed, Palestine, 1812. He was a pupil of Rabbi Moses Ẓebi Heller, author of "Geon Ẓebi," and occupied the|
116409789|/articles/5470-eibenschutz-ilona|Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest May 8, 1872. She received her first instruction in music from her cousin Albert Eibenschütz; Liszt is said to|
117736821|/articles/5474-eichberg-julius|Violinist, director of music, and composer; born in Düsseldorf, Germany, June 13, 1824; died at Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1893. In his youth he had|
1160324441|/articles/5476-eichenbaum-jacob|Russian educator, poet, and mathematician; one of the pioneers of modern education among the Russian Jews; born in Krasnopolie, Galicia, Oct. 12,|
118688294|/articles/5477-eichhorn-johann-gottfried|Orientalist and Biblical scholar; born at Dörrenzimmern, in the principality of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Oct. 16, 1752; died at Göttingen June 27, 1827.|
116418222|/articles/5478-eichthal-gustave-d|French publicist and Hellenist; born at Nancy March 22, 1804; died at Paris April 9, 1882. At the age of thirteen he became a convert to Roman|
1069961965|/articles/5479-eidlitz-moses-zarah|Austrian Talmudist; born before 1725; died May 17, 1786, at Prague. Following the custom of the time, he conducted a Talmud school in his dwelling,|
105313620X|/articles/5481-eilenburg-issachar-baer-ben-israel-leyser|Polish Rabbiner; born in Posen about 1570; died in Austerlitz, Moravia, in 1623. His father gave him a thorough training in the Talmud. From Posen|
119333503|/articles/5483-einhorn-david|German Rabbiner, preacher, and theological writer; leader of the Reform movement in America; born at Dispeck, Bavaria, Nov. 10, 1809; died in New York|
105833363|/articles/5484-einhorn-ignatz-eduard-horn|Hungarian preacher and political economist; born at Vágh-Ujhely Sept. 25, 1825; died at Budapest Nov. 2, 1875. He was educated at the Talmud schools|
129585599|/articles/5485-einhorn-max|Physician; born Jan. 10, 1862, at Grodno, Russia; studied medicine at the universities of Kiev and Berlin, graduating as M.D. from the latter in|
116434600|/articles/5488-eisenmenger-johann-andreas|Studies Rabbinical Literature. Anti-Jewish author; born in Mannheim 1654; died in Heidelberg Dec. 20, 1704. The son of an official in the service of|
143461419|/articles/5491-eisenstein-julius-judah-david|Russian-American writer; born in Meseritz, government of Siedlec, Russian Poland, Nov. 21, 1855. He emigrated in 1872 to the United States, and|
13860066X|/articles/5493-eisler-leopold|Austrian Rabbiner; born Feb. 11, 1825, at Boskowitz, Moravia; studied Talmud under Rabbi Abraham Placzek, and Oriental languages at the University of|
124362214|/articles/5495-eisler-rudolph|Austrian writer; born in Vienna Jan. 7, 1873. He was educated at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Leipsic, graduating from Leipsic as doctor|
116446706|/articles/5512-elbogen-ismar|German scholar; born at Schildberg Sept. 1, 1874. Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches Wörterbuch," and then at the|
100725899|/articles/5515-eldad-ben-mahli-ha-dani|Merchant and traveler of the ninth century. He professed to have been a citizen of an independent Jewish state in eastern Africa, inhabited by the|
12324921X|/articles/5527-eleazar-ben-arak|Tanna of the second generation (first century C.E.). Being first among the disciples of R. Johanan ben Zakkai (Ab. ii. 8; Ab. R. N. xiv. 3), he|
119534827|/articles/5542-eleazar-ben-judah-ben-kalonymus-of-worms|Talmudist and cabalist; born, probably at Mayence, about 1176; died at Worms in 1238. He was a descendant of the great Kalonymus family of Mayence,|
143607006|/articles/5554-eleazar-ben-samuel|Rabbi; born at Cracow about 1665; died at Safed, Palestine, 1742. On the completion of his studies he became dayyan of Cracow. In 1708 he accepted|
100993931|/articles/5555-eleazar-ben-samuel-of-metz|French tosafist; died 1198. He was a pupil of R. Tam, and is often quoted in tosafot—sometimes as "RAM," sometimes as "R. Eleazar." He wrote|
1060066599|/articles/5544-eleazar-lasi-ben-joseph|German Talmudist; born in Berlin Sept. 24, 1740; died at Hamburg Jan. 22, 1814. He studied under Tebele Scheuer, Rabbiner of Bamberg, and later in the|
133139093|/articles/5569-elhanan-ben-samuel-sanwel-ashkenazi|Rabbi of Schottland, near Danzig; born in 1713; died Sept. 27, 1780. At the age of eighteen he became Rabbiner of Fordon, Prussia, and in 1752 first|
11885447X|/articles/5566-elhanan-hendel-haenle-ben-benjamin-wolf-kirchhan|Ethical writer; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. Elhanan published in|
137712294|/articles/5582-eliakim-gotz-ben-jacob|Galician cantor, teacher, and translator; born at Komarno; died at Amsterdam before 1709. He was the author of: "Leshon Limmudim," a guide to letter|
116447710|/articles/5589-elias-julius|German author; born at Hoya, Hanover, June 21, 1861. He was educated at Dorotheenstadt industrial school, Friedrich Werder gymnasium, and Munich|
1023888688|/articles/5591-elias-ney|British consul-general at Meshed, Persia, and explorer; died in London May 31, 1897. At an early age he found his way to China, and in 1871|
102441723|/articles/5622-eliezer-b-nathan-of-mayence|Halakist and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the twelfth century. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Eliakim b. Joseph of Mayence, a|
1053138180|/articles/5609-eliezer-ben-isaac-ha-gadol|German Rabbiner of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R. Simon ha-Gadol of Mayence and of R. Gershom Me'or ha-Golah. David Conforte,|
102441731|/articles/5614-eliezer-ben-joel-ha-levi|German Talmudist; born probably at Bonn 1160-65; died about 1235. He belonged to a German family of scholars; his father, Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi,|
1089480032|/articles/7705-hillel-ben-samuel|Italian physician, Philosoph, and Talmudist; born about 1220; died about 1295. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eleazar ben Samuel of|
143669036|/articles/5600-eliezer-of-beaugency|French exegete of the twelfth century; born at Beaugency, capital of a canton in the department of Loiret; pupil of Samuel ben Meïr, the eminent|
1089686536|/articles/5641-elijah-b-azriel-of-wilna|Grammarian and author, died after 1748. He wrote: "Ma'aneh Eliyahu," rules for Hebrew reading, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1704; "Miḳra Ḳodesh," rules of|
1050618432|/articles/5667-elijah-b-moses-de-vidas|Cabalist at Safed in the sixteenth century; pupil of R. Moses Cordovero. He went to Poland, but returned to Palestine, and died at Hebron. He is the|
1072324989|/articles/5670-elijah-b-samuel-of-lublin|Polish Rabbiner; died at Hebron, Palestine, 1735. He became Rabbiner of Byala, and later, after residing for some time at Brest-Litovsk, of Eibenschütz,|
105828228X|/articles/5653-elijah-ben-isaac-of-carcassonne|French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century; progenitor of the De Latas, or Lattes, family. He took the name of the|
1078704554|/articles/5662-elijah-ben-menahem-ha-zaken|French liturgical poet; flourished at Le Mans in the eleventh century. According to Solomon Luria, (Responsa, No. 29), he was the son-in-law of|
1140542818|/articles/12159-pinczow-elijah-b-moses-ger-shon|Polish physician and Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Meleket Maḥashebet," part i., "Ir Ḥeshbon" (Frankfort-on-the-Main,|
119183706|/articles/5673-elijah-ben-solomon|Lithuanian Talmudist, cabalist, grammarian, and mathematician; born at Wilna April 23, 1720; died there Oct. 9, 1797. He gave evidence of the|
137947666|/articles/5674-elijah-ben-solomon-abraham-ha-kohen|Dayyan of Smyrna; almoner and preacher; died 1729. Elijah produced over thirty works, of which the principal, according to Wunderbar ("Orient, Lit."|
1055400877|/articles/5684-elisha-ben-abraham-ben-judah|Russian Rabbiner; died at Grodno July 1, 1749. He was Rabbiner and chief of the yeshibah of Lucicz, Volhynia, Russia. Elisha was the author of "Ḳab|
119119072|/articles/5685-elisha-ben-abuyah|Born in Jerusalem before 70; flourished in Palestine at the end of the first century and the beginning of the second. At one time the Rabbis were|
116452331|/articles/5700-ellstatter-moritz|Minister of finance of the grand duchy of Baden; born March 11, 1827, at Carlsruhe, where his father was a furniture-manufacturer. From 1845 to 1850|
13068208X|/articles/5729-emden-hermann-seligmann|German engraver and photographer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 18, 1815; died there Sept. 6, 1875. Early evincing a love for art and unable to|
118989316|/articles/5730-emden-jacob-israel-ben-zebi-ashkenazi|German Talmudist and anti-Shabbethaian; born at Altona June 4, 1697; died there April 19, 1776. Until seventeen Emden studied Talmud under his|
118530135|/articles/5735-emin-pasha-eduard-carl-oscar-theodor-schnitzer|German explorer; born at Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, March 28, 1840; killed at Kinena Station, Kongo Free State, Oct. 23 or 24, 1892. When he was only|
118907883|/articles/5741-empereur-constantin-l-of-oppijck|Professor of theology and Oriental languages; born at Bremen July, 1591; died at Leyden July 1, 1648. His father, Antonius Cæsar, driven from his|
1047604760|/articles/5763-engelbert-hermann|German Rabbiner; born in Gudensberg, Hessen, July 29, 1830; died at St. Gall, Switzerland, Feb. 5, 1900. He attended the Talmudic school in Würzburg|
116536993|/articles/5766-englander-sigmund|Austrian writer; born at Vienna; died at Turin Nov. 30, 1902. After graduating from the University of Vienna he devoted himself to literary work. He|
139545034|/articles/5767-englisch-berthold|Austrian chess-player; born 1851 at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia; died Oct. 19, 1897, in Vienna. In 1879 he gained the first prize at the Leipsic|
10084751X|/articles/5769-ennery-adolphe-philippe-d|French dramatic author; born in Paris June 17, 1811; died there Jan. 26, 1899. By turn a lawyer's clerk, painter, and journalist, in 1831 he made|
100612253|/articles/5771-ennery-marchand|French Rabbiner; brother of Jonas Ennery; born at Nancy 1792; died at Paris Aug. 21, 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim and at the Rabbinernical|
1089712030|/articles/5775-enoch-ben-abraham|Talmudist and popular preacher; died .after 1662. Enoch belonged to a famous family of scholars of the community of Posen. In 1649 he left Cracow,|
1055399429|/articles/5780-enoch-zundel-ben-joseph|Russian Talmudist; died at Byelostok 1867. He wrote: a commentary on Midr. Rabbah of the five Megillot, in two parts (Wilna and Grodno, 1829-34; 2d|
138801940|/articles/5778-enoch-s|German Rabbiner; born in Hamburg Oct. 8, 1814; died in Fulda Dec. 31, 1876; attended the Johannæum in Hamburg and the Talmudic lectures of Ḥakam Isaac|
118959379|/articles/5786-eotvos-baron-joseph|Hungarian statesman; emancipator of the Hungarian Jews; born at Ofen Sept. 13, 1813; died at Budapest Feb. 2, 1871. On the completion of his legal|
118530550|/articles/5792-ephraem-syrus|Church father; born at Nisibis, Syria (whence his surname "Syrus"), or at Edessa, at the beginning of the fourth century. His numerous writings|
1089882998|/articles/5797-ephraim-b-isaac-of-regensburg|German tosafist and liturgical poet of the twelfth century; died in Regensburg about 1175, probably at an advanced age. He was one of the oldest|
12971075X|/articles/5799-ephraim-ben-jacob-ha-kohen|Lithuanian Talmudist; born at Wilna 1616; died June 3, 1678, at Ofen, Hungary. Driven by the Chmielnicki persecutions from his native city, where he|
1089707452|/articles/5800-ephraim-ben-joseph-of-chelm-jambrower|Polish liturgist; born at Chelm, Poland, at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Wreshna, Poland, about 1650. His father, Rabbiner at Jambrower,|
1053451660|/articles/5808-ephraim-of-sudilkov|Russian Rabbiner and preacher among the Ḥasidim of the Ukraine; born at Medzhibozh, Podolia, about 1750; died at Sudilkov, Volhynia, about 1799. He was|
122082370|/articles/5807-ephraim-solomon-ben-aaron-of-lencziza|Rabbi and popular preacher at Prague; born probably at Lencziza, Poland; died at Prague March 3, 1619. After having filled the office of rosh|
135910331|/articles/5809-ephraim-veitel-heine|German financier; died at Berlin in 1775. The name means "Veitel, the son of Heine [German for "Ḥayyim"], the son of Ephraim." He was jeweler to the|
118682229|/articles/5819-epiphanius|Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus; born at Bezanduke near Eleutheropolis, Palestine, between 310 and 320 (according to Bartolocci, in 288); died at sea|
126465215|/articles/5831-ergas-joseph-ben-immanuel|Italian Rabbiner and cabalist; born in Leghorn 1685; died May 19, 1730. He is frequently mentioned by Meldola in his responsa "Mayim Rabbim," by|
116539909|/articles/5832-erlanger-camille|French composer; born at Paris May 25, 1863; studied at the Conservatoire and (1888) obtained the first Prix de Rome in the class of Löo Delibes. In|
100804500|/articles/5835-ernesti-johann-august|Protestant theologian; classical scholar; born Aug. 4, 1707, at Tennstädt, Thuringia; died 1781 at Leipsic, in the university of which city he was|
117512281|/articles/5837-errera-giorgio|Italian chemist; born Oct. 26, 1860, at Venice; educated at the universities of Padua and Turin, from which latter place he was graduated doctor of|
11751229X|/articles/5838-errera-leo-abram|Belgian botanist; born at Laeken, Belgium, Sept. 4, 1858; died at Brussels, Aug. 1, 1905. He was educated first at the Athénée Royale and later at|
116567848|/articles/5839-errera-paul-joseph|Belgian barrister; born at Laeken, Belgium, July 23, 1860; educated at the University of Brussels; professor in the law department of the Ecole des|
136828817|/articles/5840-erter-isaac|Satirist; born 1792 at Janischok, Galicia; died 1851 at Brody. The first part of his life was full of struggles and hardships. After having|
116539216|/articles/5856-eskeles-bernhard-freiherr-von|Austrian financier; born at Vienna 1753; died at Hietzing, near Vienna, Aug. 7, 1839. He was the posthumous son of Rabbi Berush Eskeles. At an early|
135914116|/articles/5858-eskeles-issachar-berush|Austrian Rabbiner and financier; born 1692; died at Vienna March 2, 1753; son of Gabriel Eskeles and son-in-law of Samson Wertheimer. Eskeles called|
173734804|/articles/5885-ethausen-alexander-ben-moses|German scholar; lived at Fulda in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a Judæo-German work in two parts: the first, "Bet Yisrael," a|
1089712251|/articles/5896-etthausen-isaac-seckel-ben-menahem|German Rabbiner; flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century, officiating as Rabbiner in various German towns during a period of fifty-five|
100458068|/articles/5899-ettlinger-jacob|German Rabbiner and author, and one of the leaders of modern Orthodoxy; born at Carlsruhe March 17, 1798; died at Altona Dec. 7, 1871. He received his|
122891961|/articles/5900-euchel-isaac-abraham|Hebrew author; born at Copenhagen 1758; died at Berlin (June?) 14, 1804. He studied at the University of Königsberg under Immanuel Kant, and|
118638955|/articles/5901-euclid|Greek geometer; flourished in the fourth century B.C. He is mentioned, perhaps for the first time in Hebrew literature, by Rabbi Abraham bar Ḥiyya|
116586443|/articles/5902-eulenburg-albert|German neuropathist and electrotherapist; born Aug. 10, 1840, in Berlin; son of the physician Moritz Michael Eulenburg (1811-87). He received his|
118531425|/articles/5911-eusebius|Bishop of Cæsarea and the "father of Church history"; born about 270. Though animated by zeal for the conversion of the Jews, he often gives|
119222450|/articles/5915-evaristus|The fifth pope; consecrated about 100; died about 109. The breviary of Pope Pius V. reserves Oct. 26 to the memory of "Evaristus Græcus ex Judæo|
129944769|/articles/5926-ewald-ferdinand-christopher|English clergyman; born near Bamberg, Bavaria, 1802; died in Norwood, London, Aug. 9, 1874; baptized at Basel when about 23 years of age; entered|
118682857|/articles/5927-ewald-georg-heinrich-august|Christian Biblical scholar; born at Göttingen Nov. 16, 1803; died there May 4, 1875; educated at the University of Göttingen, where he studied|
119196190|/articles/5928-ewald-johann-ludwig|German pedagogue and theologian, and advocate of the Jews; born at Hain-zur-Dreieich, grand duchy of Hesse, Sept. 16, 1747; died at Carlsruhe March|
123480876|/articles/5945-eybeschutz-jonathan|German Rabbiner and Talmudist; born in Cracow about the year 1690; died in Altona Sept. 18, 1764. His father, Nathan (Nata), who was a grandson of the|
102975912X|/articles/5954-ezekiel-feiwel-ben-ze-eb-wolf|Russian Talmudist and preacher; born at Polangen 1755; died at Wilna 1833. Early in life he filled the position of preacher in his native town, and|
116355220|/articles/5958-ezekiel-moses-jacob|American sculptor; born in Richmond, Va., Oct. 28, 1844; educated at the Virginia Military Institute, from which, after serving as a Confederate|
132768283|/articles/5965-ezobi-joseph-ben-hanan-ben-nathan|Liturgical poet; lived at Perpignan in the thirteenth century. He was the author of thefollowing: (1) three liturgical poems, the first on the Feast|
118685767|/articles/5979-fagius-paul-paul-buchlein|Christian Hebraist; born at Rheinzabern, in the Kurpfalz, 1504; died at Cambridge, England, Nov. 13, 1549. He studied at the universities of|
1053136129|/articles/8388-jacob-ben-abraham-faitusi|Tunisian scholar; died at Algiers July, 1812. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as a collector of alms to|
118998102|/articles/5986-falaquera-palquera-shem-tob-ben-joseph|Spanish Philosoph and poet: born 1225; died after 1290. He was well versed in Arabic and Greek philosophy, and had a fine critical sense.|
129729051|/articles/5994-falk-foreignchars-v05p332001-jpg-foreignchars-joshua-ben-alexander-ha-kohen|Polish Talmudist; born at Lublin; died at Lemberg March 29, 1614. His name occurs as "RaFaK" (= "R. Falk Kohen") and "Ma-HaRWaK" (= "Morenu ha-Rab|
124727492|/articles/5992-falk-hayyim-samuel-jacob|English cabalist and mystic; born about 1708; died in London April 17, 1782. Some writers give Fürth, others Podolia (Podhayce), as his birthplace.|
116394501|/articles/5995-falk-max|Hungarian statesman and journalist; born at Budapest Oct. 7, 1828. The straitened circumstances of his parents threw him at an early age upon his|
17207116X;116396687|/articles/5997-falkson-ferdinand|German physician and political writer; born at Königsberg Aug. 20, 1820; died there Aug. 31, 1900. He was educated at the universities of|
104277998|/articles/6017-farhi-parhi-estori|Explorer of Palestine; born about 1282 at Florenza, Spain; died in Palestine, probably in 1357. His father, Moses, sent him to study under his|
132707896|/articles/6019-farhi-isaac|Dayyan and almoner of Jerusalem; born at Safed; died at Jerusalem May 11, 1853. About 1840 Farḥi was sent to Europe by the Rabbinernate of Jerusalem to|
1012126870|/articles/6020-farhi-joseph-shabbethai|Talmudic scholar and cabalist; born at Jerusalem about 1802; died at Leghorn, Italy, in 1882. Farḥi was an earnest cabalist; he believed that after|
102564841|/articles/6022-farissol-perizol-abraham-ben-mordecai|Italian scholar and geographer; born at Avignon, France, 1451; died, according to Grätz ("Geschichte," ix. 44), in 1525; Zunz, however ("G. S." i.|
1053130619|/articles/6025-farjeon-benjamin-l|English-Jewish novelist; born in London 1833; died there July 23, 1903; educated at private schools. He emigrated to New Zealand, where he entered|
143697994|/articles/6027-farkas-gyula-julius|Hungarian mathematician and physicist; born at Puszta Sárosd March 28, 1847; attended the gymnasium at Györ (Raab), and studied law and philosophy|
1103034383|/articles/6031-farrar-ferrar-abraham|Portuguese physician and poet; born at Porto; died at Amsterdam 1663. After practising medicine at Lisbon, Farrar emigrated to Amsterdam, where he|
133963586|/articles/6032-fassel-hirsch-bar|Austrian Rabbiner and author; born at Boskowitz, Moravia, Aug. 21, 1802; died at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, Dec. 27, 1883. After receiving his early|
117503401|/articles/6041-fayer-ladislaus|Hungarian jurist; born at Kecskemé in 1842. In 1870 he received the degree of doctor of law, three years later becoming privat-docent at the|
1065848021|/articles/6048-feder-tobias-gutmann|Polish poet and grammarian, born at Przedborz about 1760; died at Tarnopol, Galicia, 1817. He followed in turn the professions of preacher,|
1071870122|/articles/6052-feilbogen-joseph|Austrian Rabbiner; born 1784; died at Strassnitz, Moravia, March 3, 1869. He officiated as Rabbiner successively at Piesling, Pirnitz, Kanitz, Great|
127975993|/articles/6053-feilchenfeld-gabriel-fabian|German Rabbiner and author; born at Schlichtingsheim, Silesia, June 18, 1827. He received his first training in Rabbinernical literature in Rawitsch, the|
138460892|/articles/6055-feinstein-aryeh-lob|Russian scholar; born at Damachev, near Brest-Litovsk, Dec. 6, 1821; died there Jan. 20, 1903. Feinstein studied the Talmud for many years, and|
172085179|/articles/6056-feis-jacob|German merchant and author; died on July 7, 1900, in London, where he had resided for many years. He devoted his literary attainments chiefly to|
118995790|/articles/6064-feldman-wilhelm|Polish author; born at Warsaw 1868. Since 1886 he has published the following works, in which he advocates theassimilation of the Jews with the|
116440627|/articles/6065-feldmann-leopold|German dramatist; born at Munich May 22, 1802; died in Vienna March 26, 1882. He was one of the most prolific farce- and comedy-writers in Germany,|
100281249|/articles/6070-felix-pratensis|Jewish apostate; born at Prato, Italy, in the second half of the fifteenth century; died at Rome in 1539. He received a good education and acquired|
118950886|/articles/6068-felix-elisa-rachel|French actress; born in the Soleil d'Or, the principal inn of the village of Munf, in the canton Aargau, Switzerland, March 24, 1821; died at|
136828884|/articles/6073-felsenthal-bernhard|German-American Rabbiner and author; born Jan. 2, 1822, at Münchweiler, near Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was educated at the Kreisgewerbschule in|
119496739|/articles/6076-fenyes-fischmann-adolf|Hungarian painter; born at Kecskemét April 28, 1867; son of J. H. Fischmann, Rabbiner of that town. Though he first attracted attention as a|
118532510|/articles/6080-ferdinand-ii|Emperor of Germany; born July 9, 1578; elected Aug. 28, 1619; died Feb. 15, 1637. On the whole his reign was favorable for the condition of the Jews|
119146193|/articles/6081-ferdinand-iii|King of Castile and Leon; son of Alfonso IX., King of Leon, and the pious Berenguela; born 1200; ascended the throne 1217; died 1252. His reign may|
118627082|/articles/6094-ferrer-vicente|Spanish Dominican preacher; born at Valencia Jan. 23, 1350; died at Vannes, France, April 5, 1419. Basnage supposes that he was of Jewish descent|
1028909462|/articles/6098-fessler-sigismund|Austrian lawyer and author; born at Vienna Aug. 26, 1845; educated at the gymnasium and university of that city. He was appointed (1868) judge at|
144027186|/articles/6103-feuer-nathaniel|Hungarian oculist; born in Szobotiszt, Hungary, Aug. 18, 1844. He studied at the University of Vienna (M.D., 1872). Assistant at the eye clinic of|
1127345303|/articles/6107-fiametta-joseph-ben-solomon|Rabbi of Ancona, Italy; died in 1721. His name iswritten variously: Wolf, in the Latin transcription of his name, gives "Flamneta"; Carmoly ("Hist.|
1037141733|/articles/6108-fichel-benjamin-eugene|French painter; born in Paris Aug. 30, 1826; died there Feb. 7, 1895. After essaying historical painting he turned his attention to producing small|
123631033|/articles/6109-fidanque-jacob-ben-abraham|English scholar; died at London in 1701. He was one of the first Jews after the Return to busy himself with the study of Rabbinernic literature. He is|
12980990X|/articles/6113-figo-pigo-azariah-ben-ephraim|Preacher at Venice; died at Rovigo 1647. Figo was an excellent scribe, and the scrolls which he wrote are highly prized. He was the author of|
137836171|/articles/6115-filipowski-phillip-hirsch|Mathematician, linguist, and editor; born at Wirballen, Russia, 1816; died in London, England, July 22, 1872. At an early age he showed great|
103148582|/articles/6117-finckenstein-raphael|German physician and poet; born at Breslau Nov. 10, 1828; died there July 31, 1874. He was educated at the gymnasium and the university of his|
1055304282|/articles/6125-finzi-felice|Italian Assyriologist; born at Correggio, 1847; died at Florence, 1872. While studying law at the University of Bologna he devoted himself to|
117508276|/articles/6127-finzi-giuseppe|Italian scholar and poet; born at Busseto Nov. 12, 1852. He has filled the chair of Italian literature in various gymnasia andacademies, at Modena,|
1017433097|/articles/6130-fiorino-jeremiah-david-alexander|German miniature-painter; born at Cassel Feb. 20, 1796 (according to the catalogue of the Dresden Gallery, 1793); died at Dresden June 22, 1847 (not|
119085682|/articles/6134-firkovich-abraham-b-samuel-aben-reshef|Russian Karaite archeologist; born in Lutsk, Volhynia, Sept. 27, 1786; died in Chu-fut-Kale, Crimea, June 7, 1874. He was educated as a Karaite|
13180751X|/articles/6143-fischel-abraham-jehiel-ben-ze-eb-wolf|German Rabbiner of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Imrah Ẓerufah," novellæ on several treatises of the Talmud and on|
1017099847|/articles/6147-fischer-bernard|Austrian Rabbiner and author; born at Budikau, a village in the district of Chrudim, Bohemia, Jan. 12, 1821; graduated from the University of Prague|
133223485|/articles/6148-fischer-karl|Christian censor of Hebrew books in Prague; born in Lichtenstadt, Bohemia, July 5, 1755; died at Prague Jan. 22, 1844. He became assistant (1781),|
1075213827|/articles/6151-fischer-moses|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Prague about 1756; died at Eisenstadt, Hungary, about 1833; son of the wealthy Talmudic scholar Meïr Fischer, and father of|
11750971X|/articles/6152-fischer-nicolaus-wolfgang|Physician and chemist; born Jan. 15, 1782, in Great Meseritz, Moravia; died Aug. 19, 1850, in Breslau. He studied at the universities of Vienna,|
119059460|/articles/6153-fischhof-adolf|Austrian writer and Politiker; born at Alt-Ofen, Hungary, Dec. 8, 1816; died at Emmersdorf, near Klagenfurth, Carinthia, March 23, 1893. After|
116584645|/articles/6154-fischhof-joseph|Austrian pianist and composer; uncle of Robert Fischhof; born April 4, 1804, at Butschowitz in Moravia; died at Vienna June 28, 1857. In 1813 he|
116584653|/articles/6155-fischhof-robert|Austrian musician; born in Vienna Oct. 31, 1857. When only seven years old Robert Fischhof played in public. He studied at the Vienna Conservatorium|
127766472|/articles/6159-fishberg-maurice|American physician; anthropologist; born Aug. 16, 1872, at Kamenetz, Podolsk, Russia; educated at the public school of his native town. He emigrated|
117512508|/articles/6170-flatau-theodor-simon|German physician; born at Lyck, province of East Prussia, June 4, 1860. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town, at the Grauen|
1089613636|/articles/6175-flavius-eborensis|Poet; born at Evora, Portugal, April 4, 1517; died at Ragusa, Sicily, 1607. He belonged to the Adumim, an old Spanish family, the greater part of|
118683861|/articles/6180-fleck-johann-friedrich-ferdinand|German actor; born at Breslau 1757; died in Berlin Dec. 20,1801. He made his début in 1777, at Leipsic, where he remained until 1779, when hewent to|
136491766|/articles/6182-fleckeles-eleazar-ben-david|Austrian Rabbiner and author; born in Prague Aug. 26, 1754; died there April 27, 1826. He was the pupil of Moses Cohen Rofe, Meïr Fischels, and Ezekiel|
124525075|/articles/6183-fleischer-max|Austrian architect; born in Prossnitz, Moravia, March 29, 1841. After graduating from the polytechnic high school of Vienna, he entered the Vienna|
119493489|/articles/6184-fleischl-von-marxow-ernst|Austrian physician; born at Vienna Aug. 5, 1846; died there Oct. 22, 1891. He received his education at the universities of Leipsic and Vienna,|
172554071|/articles/6189-flexner-simon|American physician and pathologist; born at Louisville, Kentucky, March 25, 1863. He received the degree of doctor of medicine at the University of|
1111056293|/articles/6190-flisfeder-d-i|Russian physician and scholar; born about 1850; died in 1885 at Kishinev, where he had settled a few years previously. Flisfeder was best known for|
117518263|/articles/6209-foa-pio|Italian pathologist; born at Sabbionetta Jan. 26, 1848. He attended the lyceum at Milan; studied medicine at Pavia, and took postgraduate courses at|
118534211|/articles/6221-folz-hans|German playwright and physician of the fifteenth century; said to have been bornin Worms. He is mentioned as "Hans Falz zu Nurmberk balbirer." Folz|
1089713193|/articles/6225-fontanella-israel-berechiah-ben-joseph-jekuthiel|Italian Rabbiner and cabalist; lived at Reggio Emilia, later at Rovigo, at the end of the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth.|
118988433|/articles/6236-formstecher-solomon|German Rabbiner; born at Offenbach July 28, 1808; died there April 24, 1889. After graduating (Ph.D. 1831) from the Giessen University, he settled in|
1011872315|/articles/6239-forstenheim-anna|Austrian writer and poetess; born at Agram Sept. 21, 1846; died at Vienna Oct. 19, 1889. She went to Vienna in 1867, and founded there the Society|
116677228|/articles/6250-fould-achille|French statesman and financier; born at Paris Nov. 17, 1800; died at Tarbes Oct. 5, 1867. The son of a wealthy Bankier, he studied banking, and|
138715033|/articles/6251-fould-benoit|French Politiker; born at Paris Nov. 21, 1792; died there July 28, 1858. In 1827 he was nominated judge of the tribunal of commerce. At the|
101358838X|/articles/6263-frances-immanuel-ben-david|Italian poet and Rabbinernical scholar; born in Mantua July 22, 1618 (?); died at Leghorn after 1703. He received his instruction from his elder|
142682802|/articles/6264-frances-jacob-ben-david|Italian scholar and poet; born at Mantua in 1615; died at Florence in 1667. After having been thoroughly grounded in the Talmud by his father, he|
118956906|/articles/6268-franchetti-leopoldo-baron|Italian deputy; born at Florence in 1847; studied law at Pisa. In company with Deputy Sidney Sonnino he undertook a journey to Sicily for the|
118534637|/articles/6273-franck-adolphe|French Philosoph; born at Liocourt, department of the Meurthe, Oct. 9, 1809; died at Paris April 11, 1893. Destined for the Rabbinernate, at the age|
1055524045|/articles/6275-francolm-isaac-asher|German preacher and religious teacher; born at Breslau Dec. 15, 1788; died there July 1, 1849; Ph.D., Leipsic, 1817. After conducting a Jewish|
1012257819|/articles/6277-frank-bar-b-gershon|Hungarian scholar; born in Presburg about 1777; died there on the second day of the Feast of Weeks, 1845. He was shoḥeṭ and teacher in his native|
11670344X|/articles/6280-frank-kathi-katharina-frankl|Austrian actress; born at Bösing, near Presburg, Oct. 11, 1852. She appeared for the first time at the Viktoria Theater at Berlin in 1871. After|
105569739X|/articles/6283-frankau-julia|British author and novelist; born in Dublin, Ireland, July 30, 1864. Julia Frankau was educated by Madame Paul Lafargue, daughter of Karl Marx.|
116690372|/articles/6285-frankel-albert|German physician; born March 10, 1848, at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and at the University|
132510200|/articles/6286-frankel-alexander|Austrian physician; born at Vienna Nov. 9, 1857. After attending the gymnasium and university of that city, he received the degree of doctor of|
100342515|/articles/6288-frankel-david-ben-naphtali|German Rabbiner; born at Berlin about 1704; died there April 4, 1762. For a time he was Rabbiner of Dessau, and became chief Rabbiner of Berlin in 1742.|
117528692|/articles/6290-frankel-ernst|German physician; born at Breslau May 5, 1844; studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Breslau (M.D. 1866). He took part in the|
1069604836|/articles/6293-frankel-jonas|German Bankier and philanthropist; son of Joel Wolf, grandson of David Fränkel, the author of "Ḳorban 'Edah"; born at Breslau at the end of the|
116691352|/articles/6294-frankel-ludwig|German writer; born at Leipsic Jan. 24, 1868. He studied at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin, and in England, receiving the degree of doctor|
131420186|/articles/6295-frankel-ludwig-f|German physician; born May 23, 1806, at Berlin; died there July 6, 1872. He received his education at the University of Berlin, from which he|
10344789X|/articles/6296-frankel-moses-ben-abraham|German Rabbiner; father of David Fränkel; born at Berlin June 30, 1739; died at Dessau Feb. 20, 1812. In 1787 he settled at Dessau, where he filled the|
100979041|/articles/6297-frankel-seckel-isaac|German Bankier; born at Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jan. 14, 1765; died at Hamburg June 4, 1835.He acquired by private study not only a high|
132512246|/articles/6298-frankel-sigmund|Austrian physician and chemist; born at Cracow May 22, 1868. After completing his course at the gymnasium of Gratz (Styria), he studied medicine at|
1055523987|/articles/6300-frankel-wolfgang-bernhard|German physician; born at Bonn Nov. 11, 1795; died at Elberfeld March 5, 1851. He took an active part in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815|
116715804|/articles/6301-frankel-zecharias|German theologian; born at Prague Sept. 30, 1801; died at Breslau Feb. 13, 1875. Frankel was the founder and the most eminent member of the school|
118855050|/articles/6302-frankenberg-abraham-von|German mystic of the seventeenth century; friend and correspondent of Manasseh ben Israel. He was a nobleman and the most influential personage in|
129688789|/articles/6303-frankenburger-wolf|German deputy; born at Obbach, Bavaria, June 8, 1827; died at Nuremberg July 18, 1889. While a student at Würzburg he took part in the political|
11671686X|/articles/6304-frankenheim-moritz-ludwig|German physicist; born in Brunswick June 29, 1801; died in Dresden Jan. 14, 1869; educated at the gymnasia of Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig, and the|
11671736X|/articles/6309-frankfurter-bernhard|German teacher and writer; son of Rabbi Moses Frankfurter; born at Herdorf March 15, 1801; died Aug. 13, 1867. In 1822 he became a teacher in the|
104159952|/articles/6311-frankfurter-moses-ben-simon|Dayyan and printer of Amsterdam; born 1672; died 1762. It appears from his epitaph (Mælder, "Jets over de Bergraafplaatsen," p. 15) that Frankfurter|
116717505|/articles/6312-frankfurter-naphtali|German preacher; brother of Bernhard Frankfurter; born at Oberdorf Feb. 13, 1810; died April 13, 1866; studied at the universities of Heidelberg and|
132565188|/articles/6313-frankfurter-simon-ben-israel|Dutch Rabbinernical scholar; father of Moses Frank, furter; born at Schwerin, Germany; died at Amsterdam Dec. 9, 1712. He was the author of a work in|
11671767X|/articles/6314-frankfurter-solomon|Austrian librarian and archeologist; born at Presburg, Hungary, Nov. 9, 1856. He studied at Vienna (Ph.D., 1883) and Berlin, devoting himself|
117536229|/articles/6317-frankl-lothar-amadeus-ritter-von-hochwart|Austrian neuropathist; born at Vienna June 12, 1862; son of Ludwig August Frankl; educated at the Schottengymnasium and at the university of his|
116718234|/articles/6318-frankl-ludwig-august-ritter-von-hochwart|Austrian poet and writer; born at Chrast, Bohemia, Feb. 3, 1810, died at Vienna March 12, 1894. He received his early education at the Piarists'|
117536199|/articles/6319-frankl-otto|Austrian jurist; born in Prague Oct. 4, 1855; studied at the universities of Prague, Göttingen, and Leipsic; made privat-docent (1883), and|
130145246|/articles/6320-frankl-pinkus-friedrich|German Rabbiner; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, Jan., 1848; died at Johannisbad Aug. 22, 1887. After attending the yeshibah at Presburg, Frankl|
139733922|/articles/6321-frankl-grun-adolf|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, Jan. 21, 1847. He received his education at the schools of his native town, at Leipnik, and at|
11671834X|/articles/6323-franklin-fabian|American mathematician, editor, and author; born in Eger, Hungary, Jan. 18, 1853; son of Morris Joshua and Sarah Heilprin, of a family which has had|
118702599|/articles/6326-franzos-karl-emil|Austrian author; born Oct. 25, 1848, in the Russian government of Podolia. His childhood was spent at Czortkow, Galicia, the "Barnow" of his|
116722142|/articles/6332-frauenstadt-christian-martin-julius|German student of philosophy; born at Bojanowo, Posen, April 17, 1813; died at Berlin Jan. 13, 1879. He was educated at the house of his uncle at|
118535749|/articles/6334-frederick-ii|King of Prussia; born 1712; reigned from 1740 till his death in 1786. He was not friendly to the Jews, although he issued a "Schutzjude" patent to|
173102506|/articles/6339-freidus-abraham-solomon|Bibliographer; born in Riga, Russia, May 1, 1867. He went to Paris in 1886, and thence to the United States in the autumn of 1889. In March, 1897,|
116750057|/articles/6341-freimann-aaron|German librarian and historian; born Aug. 5, 1871, at Filehne, Posen. He is the son of Israel Meïr Freimann, and grandson, on his mother's side, of|
155115685|/articles/6342-freimann-israel-meir|German Rabbiner; born Sept. 27, 1830, at Cracow; died Aug. 21, 1884, at Ostrowo, He received his education from his father and in various Talmudical|
122772016|/articles/6346-frensdorff-solomon|German Hebraist; born at Hamburg Feb. 24, 1803; died at Hanover March 23, 1880. While pursuing his studies at the Johanneum gymnasium in his native|
118535315|/articles/6349-freud-sigmund|Austrian physician; born May 6, 1856, at Freiberg in Moravia. He received his education at the University of Vienna, where he was graduated as M.D.|
116774088|/articles/6350-freudenthal-berthold|Professor of law at the Academy of Frankfort-on-the-Main; born at Breslau, Aug. 23, 1872; son of Jacob Freudenthal. Freudenthal received his|
101568355|/articles/6351-freudenthal-jacob|German Philosoph; born June 20, 1839, at Bodenfelde, province of Hanover, Prussia. Freudenthal received his education at the universities of|
116774452|/articles/6353-freund-ernst|American jurist; born in New York Jan. 30, 1864; attended gymnasia at Dresden and Frankfort-on-the-Main, and the universities of Berlin and|
132521075|/articles/6354-freund-ernst|Austrian physician; born at Vienna Dec. 15, 1863; educated at the University of Vienna, whence he was graduated as M.D. in 1888. Soon, afterward he|
141844019|/articles/6355-freund-samuel-ben-issachar-bar|Bohemian Talmudist; born at Tuschkau Dec., 1794; died at Prague June 18, 1881. After studying under Eleazar of Triesch and Baruch Fränkel of Leipnik|
116781777|/articles/6356-freund-wilhelm|German philologist and lexicographer; born Jan. 27, 1806, at Kempen, province of Posen; died June 4, 1894, at Breslau. He studied in Berlin and|
117728187|/articles/6357-freund-wilhelm-alexander|German gynecologist; born at Krappitz, Silesia, Aug. 26, 1833. He studied medicine at the University of Breslau, where he received his degree in|
17208122X|/articles/6360-friedberg-abraham-shalom-har-shalom|Russian Hebraist; born at Grodno Nov. 6, 1838; died in Warsaw March 21, 1902. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a watchmaker; three years|
1023938928|/articles/6361-friedberg-bernard|Austrian Hebraist; born at Cracow Dec. 19, 1876. Besides numerous contributions to Hebrew and other periodicals, he has published the following|
116791683|/articles/6362-friedberg-heinrich-von|German statesman; born at Mürkisch-Friedland, West Prussia, Jan. 27, 1813; died at Berlin June 2, 1895. Friedberg studied law at the University of|
116791705|/articles/6363-friedberg-hermann|German physician, born at Rosenberg, Silesia, July 5, 1817; died at Breslau March 2, 1884. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, Prague,|
116795468|/articles/6364-friedenthal-karl-rudolph|Prussian statesman; born in Breslau Sept. 15, 1827; died on his estate, Giesmannsdorf, near Neisse, March 7, 1890. He was a nephew of Markus Bär|
136024246|/articles/6365-friedenthal-markus-bar|German Bankier and scholar; born in 1779; died at Breslau Dec. 3, 1859. Although one of the leading Bankiers at Breslau, he devoted much time to study|
119480700|/articles/6367-friedjung-heinrich|Austrian journalist and author, born at Rostschin, Moravia, Jan. 18, 1851; studied at Prague, Berlin, and Vienna (Ph.D.). In 1874 he was appointed|
1056133929|/articles/6369-friedland-moses-aryeh-lob|Russian philanthropist; born at Dünaburg, government of Vitebsk, Jan. 8, 1826; died at St. Petersburg Nov. 21, 1899. He was for more than thirty|
1075664179|/articles/6371-friedlander-dagobert|Member of the Prussian Upper House; born in Kolmar, Posen, Feb. 19, 1826. From 1846 to 1857 he conducted a book business in Wollstein; in the latter|
119463288|/articles/6372-friedlander-david|German writer and communal leader; born at Königsberg Dec. 6, 1750; died Dec. 25, 1834, at Berlin, where he had settled in 1771. As the son-in-law|
116797061|/articles/6373-friedlander-friedrich|Genre painter; born Jan. 10, 1825, at Kohljanowitz, Bohemia. He studied at the Vienna Academy, and later under Professor Waldmüller, and visited|
1075212758|/articles/6374-friedlander-joseph-abraham|German Rabbiner; born at Kolin, Bohemia, 1753; died at Brilon, Westphalia, Nov. 26, 1852. He was the nephew of David Friedländer, from whom he imbibed|
116797266|/articles/6375-friedlander-julius|German numismatist; born in Berlin June 25, 1813; died there April 4, 1884. After studying at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and traveling in|
118693433|/articles/6376-friedlander-ludwig|German philologist; born at Königsberg July 16, 1824. He studied at the universites of Königsberg and Leipsic from 1841 to 1845. In 1847 he became|
116797487|/articles/6377-friedlander-ludwig-hermann|German physician; born April 20, 1790, at Königsberg, Prussia; died 1851 at Halle, Saxony. He entered the Königsberg University at the age of|
116797630|/articles/6378-friedlander-max|Journalist; born June 18, 1829, at Pless, Prussian Silesia; died April 20, 1872, at Nice. After studying law at the universities of Berlin, Breslau,|
116797673|/articles/6379-friedlander-max|German writer on music and bass concert-singer; born in Brieg, Silesia, Oct. 12, 1852. A pupil of Manuel Garcia (London) and Stockhausen|
136353673|/articles/6380-friedlander-michael|Principal of Jews' College, London; born at Jutroschin, Prussia, April 29, 1833. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Halle (Ph.D. 1862),|
124775438|/articles/6381-friedlander-moritz|Austrian theologian; born in Bur Szt. Georgen, Hungary, 1842; now (1903) residing in Vienna. He was educated at the University of Prague, where he|
131946773|/articles/6382-friedlander-solomon|Preacher and physician; born at Brilon, Westphalia, Oct. 23, 1825; died in Chicago Aug. 22, 1860. He studied in Bonn and Heidelberg, and graduated|
127871160|/articles/6387-friedmann-ish-shalom-meir-ben-jeremiah|Austrian scholar; born at Kraszna, in the district of Kashau, Hungary, July 10, 1831. At the age of thirteen he entered the yeshibah at Ungvar,|
116802014|/articles/6385-friedmann-alfred|German poet and author; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 26, 1845. Brought up as a goldsmith, he renounced that occupation and studied at the|
1050986830|/articles/6389-friedmann-paul|German philanthropist; born at Berlin in the middle of the nineteenth century. Friedmann is of Jewish descent, and is connected with the family of|
116803142|/articles/6390-friedmann-siegwart|German actor; born at Budapest April 25, 1842. He was a pupil of Dawison, who not only educated him for the stage, but took him into his own home|
1053283369|/articles/6391-friedrichsfeld-david-b-zebi-hirsch|German and Hebrew author; born about 1755 in Berlin; died Feb. 19, 1810, in Amsterdam. In the Prussian capital he absorbed the scholarship and ideas|
11853601X|/articles/6394-fries-jakob-friedrich|Christian writer against the Jews; born at Barby, Saxony, Aug. 23, 1773; died at Jena Aug. 10, 1843. In 1801 Fries lectured on philosophy at the|
1075022207|/articles/6395-friesenhausen-david-ben-meir|Bavarian mathematician; born at Friesenhausen about the middle of the eighteenth century; lived at Berlin, and later at Hunfalu and Ujhely, Hungary;|
13867860X|/articles/6399-frizzi-benedetto-benzion-raphael-kohen|Italian physician and writer; born at Ostiano, Mantua, in 1756; died there May 30, 1844. In his youth he was instructed by Jesuits at Mantua, where|
118833707|/articles/6401-frohberg-regina|German writer; born at Berlin Oct. 4, 1783; date of death not known. She was the daughter of a very wealthy merchant by the name of "Salomo"|
1176714910|/articles/6402-frohman-charles|American theatrical manager; born at Sandusky, Ohio, about 1858. He began his theatrical career as advance agent for Haverley's Mastodon Minstrels.|
12864978X|/articles/6403-frohman-daniel|American theatrical manager; brother of Charles Frohman; born at Sandusky, Ohio, 1853. He went to New York city in 1866, and became office-boy of|
123724589|/articles/6406-frug-semion-grigoryevich|Russian writer and poet; born 1860 in the Jewish agricultural colony of Bobrovy-Kut, government of Kherson. In 1880 there appeared in the "Razsvyet"|
134267885|/articles/6409-frumkin-israel-dob-bar|Hebrew author; born in Dubrovna, Russia, Oct. 29, 1850. His father, Alexander Frumkin, when sixty years old emigrated to Jerusalem (1860). In 1869|
1044797193|/articles/6410-fubini-simone|Italian physiologist; born May 26, 1841, in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont; died Sept. 6, 1898, at Turin. After finishing his course at the college he|
142521442|/articles/6414-fuenn-samuel-joseph|Russian scholar; born at Wilna Sept., 1819; died there Jan. 11, 1891. He received the usual Talmudic education, and also acquired an extensive|
14320968X|/articles/6416-fuld-aaron-b-moses|German Talmudist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 2, 1790; died there Dec. 2, 1847. Being both a man of means and very retiring, he refused to|
116852623|/articles/6417-fuld-ludwig|German lawyer and juridical author; born at Mayence Dec. 23, 1859. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and at the|
118840452|/articles/6419-fulda-ludwig|German author; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 15, 1862. He studied German philology and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Leipsic, and|
131793837|/articles/6420-fullana-nicolas-de-oliver-y|Chartographer; born on the island of Majorca; lived there as "Capitan" or "Cavallero Mallorquin" as late as 1650. On Oct. 1 of that year he wrote a|
131805207|/articles/6432-furst-alexander|German physician; born at Braunsberg April 15, 1844; died in Berlin May 25, 1898. He studied medicine at Königsberg, and took his degree at Berlin|
116846283|/articles/6433-furst-julius|German Rabbiner; born at Mannheim Nov. 14, 1826; died there Sept. 5, 1899. He received his secular education at the University of Heidelberg, and|
116846275|/articles/6434-furst-julius|German Hebraist and Orientalist; born May 12, 1805, at Zerkowo, Prussia, where his father, Jacob, was darshan; died at Leipsic Feb. 9, 1873. Fürst|
116846348|/articles/6435-furst-livius|German physician; born at Leipsic, May 27, 1840; son of the Orientalist Julius Fürst. Livius Fürst studied at the universities of Jena and Leipsic,|
127685634|/articles/6437-furstenthal-jacob-raphael|As Translator. German poet, translator, and Hebrew writer; born in Glogau 1781; died at Breslau Feb. 16, 1855. Fürstenthal's attention was directed|
1016264615|/articles/6438-furstenthal-johann-august-l|German jurisconsult of the first half of the nineteenth century; a brother of Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal. He embraced Christianity. He was the author|
130319406|/articles/6439-furtado-abraham|French Politiker; born at London 1756; died at Bordeaux Jan. 29, 1816. His parents were members of a Portuguese Marano family, and resided first in|
1089686641|/articles/6449-gabishon-abraham-ben-jacob|Algerian physician and scholar; descended from a Granada family; died at Tlemçen in 1605. He established himself as a physician in 1574 at Algiers,|
116327642|/articles/6455-gabrilovitch-ossip|Russian pianist; born in St. Petersburg Feb. 7, 1878. When only four years old he evinced a remarkable talent for music, and before he had reached|
118537202|/articles/6472-galen-galenus-claudius|His Philosophy Criticized by Maimonides. Greek physician and Philosoph; born at Pergamus, Mysia, about 131; died about 200. Eclipsed by those of|
1145894836|/articles/6483-gallico-elisha-ben-gabriel|Palestinian Talmudist; died at Safed about 1583. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro. After the death of his master, Gallico was nominated chief of the|
118957600|/articles/6490-gama-gaspard-da|German-Jewish mariner of the fifteenth century. According to his own story, Gaspard da Gama was born in Posen, and while still young had to leave|
128859946|/articles/6495-gamaliel-ii|Appointed "Nasi." The recognized head of the Jews in Palestine during the last two decades of the first and at the beginning of the second century.|
12885068X|/articles/6506-gans-david-ben-solomon-ben-seligman|German historian; astronomer; born at Lippstadt, Westphalia, 1541; died at Prague Aug. 25, 1613. After having acquired a fair knowledge of|
118689479|/articles/6507-gans-eduard|German jurist; born at Berlin March 22, 1798; died there May 5, 1839. He was the son of the Bankier Abraham Gans, and received his early education at|
116411414|/articles/6508-gans-solomon-philip|German jurist; born 1788; lived at Celle, Hanover. He was the author of: "Das Erbrecht des Napoleonischen, Gesetzbuches für Westphalen," Hanover,|
12324837X|/articles/6509-ganzfried-solomon|Hungarian Rabbiner and author; born at Ungvar about 1800; died there July 30, 1886. He frequented the yeshibah of Hirsch Heller at Bonyhad (see Jew.|
129655155|/articles/6517-garmison-samuel|Palestinian Rabbiner of the seventeenth century. He was a native of Salonica, and settled in Jerusalem, where he became Rabbiner. Of his numerous works|
137073070|/articles/6518-garmon-nehorai|Rabbi of Tunis; poet; born at Tripoli about 1682; died at Tunis 1760. Garmon went to Tunis at twenty, and studied Talmud under Isaac Lombroso, whom|
117671053|/articles/6522-gartner-gustav|Austrian physician; born at Pardubitz, Bohemia, Sept. 28, 1855. He received his education at the gymnasium at Königgrätz and the University of|
119226723|/articles/6524-gaster-moses|Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London; born in Bucharest Sept. 16, 1856. Having taken a degree in his native city (1874), he|
1055403779|/articles/6525-gastfreund-isaac|Galician Rabbinernical scholar; born about 1845; died in Vienna after 1880. He was the author of "Toledot Rabbi 'Aḳibah," a biography of the tanna|
11933304X|/articles/6560-geiger-abraham|German Rabbiner and scholar; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 24, 1810; died at Berlin Oct. 23, 1874; son of Rabbi Michael Lazarus Geiger (born 1755;|
116495502|/articles/6561-geiger-lazarus|German philologist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 21, 1829; died there Aug. 29, 1870. His father was Solomon Michael Geiger, the eldest brother|
11903719X|/articles/6562-geiger-ludwig|German literary historian; son of Abraham Geiger; born at Breslau June 5, 1848. After having been educated for the Rabbinernate under paternal|
118690310|/articles/6564-geldern-simon-von|Traveler and author; born 1720; died 1774. He was the great-uncle of Heine, who describes him in his "Memoirs" as an adventurer and Utopian dreamer.|
129979872|/articles/6576-genazzano-elijah-hayyim-ben-benjamin-of|Italian physician, theologian, and cabalist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. He had a religious controversy with Fra|
116795646|/articles/6600-gerhard-friedrich|German Christian writer against the Jews; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 2, 1779; died there Oct. 30, 1862. He was a Lutheran clergyman at|
116589930|/articles/6604-gernsheim-friedrich|German pianist and composer; born at Worms July 17, 1839. He was a pupil of L. Liebe, Pauer, Rosenhain (piano), I. C. Hauff (theory), and H. Wolff|
129462691|/articles/6609-gerondi-jonah-b-abraham-hehasid-the-elder|Spanish Rabbiner and moralist of the thirteenth century; died in Toledo, Spain, Nov., 1263; a cousin of Naḥmanides. He came from Gerona, in Catalonia.|
102479267|/articles/6615-gershom-ben-judah|French Rabbiner; born at Metz in 960; died at Mayence in 1040. He was the founder of Talmudic studies in France and Germany. As he himself says in a|
128789050|/articles/6622-gershon-christian-ben-meir-of-biberbach|Jewish convert; born at Reckling-hausen, Prussia, Aug. 1, 1569; drowned at Dröhelm Sept. 25, 1627. After teaching Hebrew and Talmud for many years|
138115753|/articles/6617-gershon-ben-eliezer-ha-levi-yiddels-of-prague|Traveler of the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of the curious and extremely rare book "Gelilot Ereẓ Yisrael," in|
1053420501|/articles/6623-gershon-ben-solomon-of-arles|Provençal Philosoph; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century; said to be the father of Gersonides. He was the author of "Sha'ar|
14205707X|/articles/6620-gershon-isaac|Rabbi and corrector of the press at Venice at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was born in Safed, to which|
1042791546|/articles/6625-gerson-felix-napoleon|American lyrist, writer, and journalist; manager of "The Jewish Exponent" (Philadelphia); born in Philadelphia Oct. 18, 1862. He was educated in the|
102475946|/articles/6626-gerson-george-hartog|German physician; born in Hamburg 1788; died there 1843. After taking his degree he traveled in Norway and Sweden, and finally settled in London,|
116591749|/articles/6627-gerson-karl|German physician; born at Hamm, Westphalia, July 19, 1866; educated at the universities of Munich, Rostock, Leipsic, and Bonn; graduated as doctor|
116594489|/articles/6632-gerstmann-adolf-joseph|German author; born July 31, 1855, at Ostrowo, Prussia. In infancy he was taken by his parents to Berlin; there he attended the Friedrich-Werder|
119096552|/articles/6636-gesenius-heinrich-friedrich-wilhelm|Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Nordhausen Feb. 3, 1786; died Oct. 23, 1842. At first devoting his attention to classical studies, he|
1053421265|/articles/6642-gesundheit-jacob-ben-isaac|Polish Rabbiner; born in Warsaw 1815; died there Sept. 11, 1878. He conducted a yeshibah for forty-two years, some of his many pupils becoming|
118537938|/articles/6650-ghazali-abu-hamid-mohammed-ibn-mohammed-al|Arabian theologian and moralist; born at Tuz, Khorasan, 1058; died there 1111. His works exerted a great influence upon Jewish thought in the Middle|
143292323|/articles/6651-ghazzati-nathan-benjamin-ben-elisha-ha-levi|Shabbethaian prophet; born at Jerusalem 1644; died at Sofia 1680. After studying Talmud and Cabala in his native town under Jacob Ḥagis, he settled|
102470227|/articles/6669-gikatilla-joseph-b-abraham|Spanish cabalist; born at Medinaceli, Old Castile, 1248; died at Peñafiel after 1305. Gikatilla was for some time a pupil of the cabalist Abraham|
118804383|/articles/6671-gil-vicente|Portuguese dramatist; born at Lisbon about 1470; called by the Portuguese their Plautus, their Shakespeare, and the father of their comedy. He|
134069161|/articles/6680-ginsburg-christian-david|English Masoretic scholar and Christian missionary; born at Warsaw Dec. 25, 1831. He was converted in 1846, and was for a time connected with the|
173085407|/articles/6681-ginsburg-saul-moiseyevich|Russian lawyer and author; born at Minsk 1866; graduated from the law department of the University of St. Petersburg 1890. Since 1898 he has held|
118717510;159472504|/articles/6682-ginzberg-asher-ahad-ha-am|Russian scholar; born at Skvira, government of Kiev, on Aug. 5, 1856. His father, Isaiah, belonged to a family of Ḥasidim and brought up his son as|
12366750X|/articles/6683-ginzberg-louis|Hebrew scholar; born at Kovno, Russia, Nov. 28, 1873. He received his early training in the Talmudical school at Telsh, Russia, under Rabbis S. Abel|
102295296X|/articles/6687-girbal-enrique-claudio|Spanish scholar; born at Gerona Nov. 16, 1839. He was chronicler of his native city and member of several learned bodies. He published the following|
116649852|/articles/6696-glagau-otto|Anti-Semitic writer; born in Königsberg, Prussia, Jan. 16, 1834; died in Berlin March 2, 1892. As a journalist and political writer Glagau had|
116653167|/articles/6698-glaser-adolf|German author; born at Wiesbaden Dec. 15, 1829. He traded in art wares while preparing himself for the university. From 1853 to 1856 he studied|
118695223|/articles/6699-glaser-eduard|Austrian traveler and Arabist; born March 15, 1855, at Deutsch-Rust, Bohemia. After completing his elementary and college education in Komotau and|
119360667|/articles/6700-glaser-julius-anton-joshua-glaser|Austrian jurist and statesman; born at Pöstelberg, Bohemia, March 19, 1831; died at Vienna Dec. 26, 1886. After taking the degree of Ph. D. at|
116682256|/articles/6717-glucksmann-heinrich|Austrian author; born at Rackschitz, Mähren, July 7, 1864. He began his literary career at sixteen, one of his first productions being "Aufsätze|
117545902|/articles/6718-gluge-gottlieb-theophile|Physician; born at Brakel in Westphalia June 18, 1812; died Dec. 22, 1898, at Nizza. He studied medicine at the Berlin University (M.D. in 1835).|
116695692|/articles/6729-godefroi-michael-h|Dutch jurist and minister of justice; born at Amsterdam Jan. 13, 1814; died at Würzburg June 27, 1882. He devoted himself to the study of|
118964046|/articles/6733-godowsky-leopold|Russian pianist and composer; born at Wilna Feb. 13, 1870. At a very early age he showed remarkable talent for music, and when nine years old was|
1051482542|/articles/6736-goitein-baruch-benedit|Hungarian Rabbiner; died at Hö;gyész, Hungary, Nov. 16, 1842. He occupied the Rabbinernate of Högyész for many years, and wrote a work on Talmudic|
116747722|/articles/6738-goldbaum-wilhelm|German writer and journalist; born at Kempen, Posen, Jan. 6, 1843. After studying law for some time at the University of Breslau, he became editor|
11674832X|/articles/6739-goldberg-albert|German opera-singer; born at Brunswick June 8, 1847. Educated at the Conservatorium of Leipsic (1865-69), he made his début at the court theater at|
10416042X|/articles/6740-goldberg-baer-ben-alexander|Russian scholar; born at Soludna near Warsaw in 1799; died at Paris May 4, 1884. When he was scarcely fifteen years of age his parents contracted a|
13692185X|/articles/6746-goldenberg-samuel-lob|Austrian Hebraist; born at Bolechow, Galicia, 1807; died at Tarnopol Jan. 11, 1846. He was the founder and editor of the Hebrew periodical "Kerem|
102532818|/articles/6747-goldenthal-jacob|Austrian Orientalist; born at Brody, Galicia, April 16, 1815; died at Vienna Dec. 28, 1868; educated at the University of Leipsic. In June, 1843, he|
119119013|/articles/6748-goldfaden-abraham-b-hayyim-lippe|Hebrew and Yiddish poet and founder of the Yiddish drama; born at Starokonstantinov, Russia, July 12, 1840. He graduated from the Rabbinernical school|
1011378175|/articles/6750-goldman-bernard|Austrian deputy; born at Warsaw Feb. 20, 1842; died at Lemberg March 23, 1901. His father, Isaac Goldman, was the owner of a Hebrew printing|
117548847|/articles/6751-goldmann-edwin-ellen|German physician; born at Burghersdorp, Cape Colony, Nov. 12, 1862; studied medicine at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg, and London,|
119527995|/articles/6752-goldmark-karl|Hungarian violinist, pianist, and operatic composer; born at Keszthely, Hungary, May 18, 1830, where his father, Ruben Goldmark, was cantor in the|
118717995|/articles/6753-goldschmidt-adolph|German art critic; born at Hamburg Jan. 15, 1863. After a short business career he devoted himself (1885) to the study of the history of art at the|
11675642X|/articles/6754-goldschmidt-henriette|Wife of Rabbi A. M. Goldschmidt (m. 1855); born at Krotoschin, Prussia, Nov. 23, 1825; and now (1903) resident at Leipsic. She was one of the|
116756454|/articles/6755-goldschmidt-hermann|German painter and astronomer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main June 17, 1802; died at Fontainebleau Sept. 10, 1866. Destined originally for a|
116757299|/articles/6756-goldschmidt-hermann-herman-taber|German novelist and playwright; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 18, 1860. He attendedthe local gymnasium, and studied law at the universities of|
117548928|/articles/6757-goldschmidt-julius|German physician; born at Mayence Feb. 12, 1843. He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Giessen, receiving from the latter his degree as|
116756683|/articles/6758-goldschmidt-lazarus|German writer; born at Plungiany, Lithuania, Russia, Dec. 17, 1871. He received his Rabbinernical education at the Talmudic school in Slobodki, near|
119409356|/articles/6759-goldschmidt-levin|German jurist; born at Danzig May 30, 1829; died at Wilhelmshöhe July 16, 1897. From 1847 to 1851 he pursued his studies at the universities of|
118718002|/articles/6761-goldschmidt-meir-aaron|Danish political writer; born Oct. 26, 1819, at Vordingborg, Denmark; died at Copenhagen Aug. 15, 1887. The dream of his youth was to become a|
116757086|/articles/6762-goldschmidt-otto|German pianist and composer; born at Hamburg Aug. 21, 1829. He studied under Jacob Schmidt and F. W. Grund; with Hans von Bülow under Mendelssohn at|
116757213|/articles/6763-goldschmidt-siegfried|German Orientalist; born at Cassel Oct. 29, 1844; died at Strasburg Jan. 31, 1884. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic, Berlin, and|
116757388|/articles/6764-goldschmiedt-guido|Austrian chemist; born in Triest Oct. 5, 1850; studied at Vienna and Heidelberg. First as assistant, later as associate professor at the chemical|
1026362954|/articles/6766-goldsmith-lewis|English political writer and agitator; born 1763; died Jan. 6, 1846. Educated in London, he was trained for the legal profession, but soon abandoned|
1170368336|/articles/6769-goldstein-eduard|Russian musician; born at Odessa 1851; died at Leipsic Aug. 8, 1887. He was an accomplished pianist at the age of thirteen, and obtained a position|
137668384|/articles/6770-goldstein-joseph|Austrian cantor and composer; born at Kecskemét, Hungary, March 27, 1836; died in Vienna June 17, 1899. He occupied the position of chief cantor at|
116760370|/articles/6773-goldstucker-theodor|German Sanskritist; born at Königsberg, Prussia, Jan. 18, 1821; died in London March 6, 1872. In 1840 he gained his degree of Ph.D. at Königsberg|
117548995|/articles/6775-goldzieher-wilhelm|Hungarian oculist and ophthalmological writer, born at Köpcsény (= Kitsee), near Presburg, Jan. 1, 1849. He studied medicine at Vienna, Berlin,|
118718029|/articles/6776-goldziher-ignaz|Hungarian Orientalist; born in Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, June 22, 1850; attended the gymnasium in his native town, and continued his studies at the|
143487388|/articles/6781-gollancz-hermann|English Rabbiner; born at Bremen Nov. 30, 1852; educated at Jews' and University colleges, London. He officiated at several synagogues in England, and|
117549029|/articles/6782-gollancz-israel|Secretary of the British Academy; born in London 1864. He was educated at the City of London School and Cambridge University (B.A., 1887). He was|
1028652682|/articles/6783-golomb-hirsch-nissan|Russian Hebraist and writer on music; born at Podzelve, government of Wilna, Dec. 15, 1853. He studied in the yeshibah of Wilkomir, and received a|
118718088|/articles/6795-gompers-samuel|American labor-leader; born in London Jan. 27, 1850. At ten years of age he became a wage-earner, working in a shoe-factory; later he was|
117549371|/articles/6796-gompertz-benjamin|British actuary; born in London March 5, 1779; died there July 14, 1865. He was descended from the family of Gomperz of Emmerich. In 1798 he began|
1053592868|/articles/6798-gompertz-lewis|English inventor of London; died Dec. 2, 1861; brother of Benjamin Gompertz, the mathematician. He devoted his life to the cause of kindness to|
136094058|/articles/6799-gomperz-benjamin|Austrian physician; born at Vienna Oct. 6, 1861. He was educated at the Leopoldstädter communal gymnasium and the University of Vienna, and received|
136049842|/articles/6801-gomperz-julius-ritter-von|Austrian merchant and statesman; brother of Theodor Gomperz; born at Brünn 1824; studied at the gymnasium and Philosophische Lehranstalt there. In|
118540661|/articles/6802-gomperz-theodor|Austrian philologist; born at Brünn March 29, 1832. His great-grandfather, Benedictus Levi Gomperz, was the financial agent of the duchy of Cleve,|
1016988249|/articles/6803-gonzalo-garcia-de-santa-maria|Spanish bishop and enemy of the Jews; born at Burgos in 1379; baptized as a boy of eleven, together with his father, Paul de Burgos or de S. Maria.|
119080923|/articles/6809-gordin-jacob-jakov-mikhailovich|Yiddish playwright and reformer; born May 1, 1853, in Mirgorod, government of Poltava. He received a good education and acquired a thorough|
141816805|/articles/6810-gordon-david-b-dob-baer|Russian journalist; born in Podmerecz, near Wilna, in 1826; died in Lyck, Prussia, May 21, 1886. At the age of ten he went to Wilna, where he|
128775114|/articles/6812-gordon-leon-judah-lob-ben-asher|Accused of Treason. V06p047002.jpgLeon Gordon.Russian Hebrew writer and poet; born at Wilna Dec. 7, 1831; died at St. Petersburg Sept. 16, 1892. He|
1019742577|/articles/6811-gordon-lord-george|English agitator and convert to Judaism; born in London on Dec. 26, 1751; died in 1793; son of the third Duke of Gordon. After serving as midshipman|
1144191866|/articles/6813-gordon-michel|Judæo-German poet and Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Nov. 4, 1823; died at Kiev Dec. 26, 1890. While at the bet ha-midrash he wrote his first poetry|
1153226006|/articles/6814-gordon-samuel|English novelist; born at Buk, Germany, Sept. 10, 1871. He went to England with his parents in 1883, and was educated at the City of London School|
1158333757|/articles/6816-gorin-bernard|Yiddish journalist; born in Lida, government of Wilna, April, 1868. He is the author of two short stories in Hebrew, "Ha-Naggar ha-Na'or" and|
136945120|/articles/6824-gottheil-gustav|American Rabbiner; born at Pinne in Prussian Posen May 28, 1827; died in New York city April 15, 1903. He was educated in Posen under Rabbi Solomon|
116793937|/articles/6826-gottheil-richard-james-horatio|American Orientalist; professor of Semitic languages, Columbia University, New York; born in Manchester, England, Oct. 13, 1862; son of Gustav|
118947850|/articles/6830-gottlober-abraham-baer|Russian-Hebrew poet and author; born at Starokonstantinov, Volhynia,Jan. 14, 1811; died at Byelostok April 12, 1899. His father was a cantor who|
118718274|/articles/6831-gottschalk-louis-moreau|American pianist; born at New Orleans May 8, 1829; died at Rio de Janeiro Dec. 18, 1869. He completed his musical education at Paris (1841-46), and|
117550442|/articles/6832-gottstein-adolf|German physician; born at Breslau Nov. 2, 1857. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and at the universities of Breslau, Strasburg,|
11679822X|/articles/6833-gottstein-jacob|German physician; born at Lissa, Austria, Nov. 7, 1832; died at Breslau, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 10, 1895; graduated (M.D.) from the University of|
1084609193|/articles/6836-goudchaux-michel|French statesman: born at Nancy March 18, 1797; died at Paris Dec. 27, 1862. After having been established for some time as Bankier in his native|
116798343|/articles/6837-goudsmit-joel-emanuel|Dutch jurist; born in Leyden June 13, 1813; died there March 17, 1882. He graduated in law May 12, 1842. After practising law for some time he was,|
119135051|/articles/6848-gracian-zerahiah-ben-isaac-ben-shealtiel-hen|Physician, Philosoph, translator, Hebraist; flourished about the end of the thirteenth century; born either at Barcelona or at Toledo. Confounded|
118697218|/articles/6850-graes-ortuin-de|Anti-Jewish writer of the sixteenth century; born at Holtwick in Westphalia in 1491; died at Cologne May 21, 1542. He was the son of a priest, and|
118541293|/articles/6851-graetz-heinrich-hirsch|German historian and exegete; born Oct. 31, 1817, at Xions, province of Posen; died at Munich Sept. 7, 1891. He received his first instruction at|
116813717|/articles/6852-graetz-leo|German physicist; son of Heinrich Graetz; born at Breslau Sept. 26, 1856. Graduating from the Elizabeth gymnasium at Breslau in 1875, he studied|
117736562|/articles/6862-gratzer-jonas|German physician; born at Tost, Upper Silesia, Oct. 19, 1806; died at Breslau Nov. 25, 1889. He graduated (M.D.) from the University of Breslau in|
119123266|/articles/6864-graziani-augusto|Italian economist; born at Modena Jan. 6, 1865. He obtained his education at the university of his native town, devoting himself especially to|
118718657|/articles/6874-gregoire-henri|Jesuit priest, Politiker, and advocate of the Jews; born at Vého, near Lunéville, Dec. 4, 1750; died at Paris May 28, 1831. Grégoire was a typical|
118652508|/articles/6877-gregory-bar-hebraeus|Jacobite Syrian historian, physician, Philosoph, and theologian; born at Malatia, Asiatic Turkey, 1226; died at Maragha, Persia, 1286. Gregory|
118541838|/articles/6875-gregory-i-the-great|Pope from 590 to 604; born about 540; died 604. Descended from an old Roman senatorial family, he had held various high official positions when he|
118697390|/articles/6876-gregory-xiii-ugo-buoncompagni|Pope from 1572 to 1585; born at Bologna Feb. 7, 1502; died at Rome April 10, 1585. His attitude toward the Jews was that of a man possessed of|
122949633|/articles/6881-griliches-avenir-girschevich|Russian engraver; father of Abraham Avenirovich Griliches; born at Wilna April, 1822. Until the age of sixteen he studied the Talmud, and later,|
143575120|/articles/6883-gronemann-selig|German Rabbiner; born at Flötenstein, West Prussia, Dec. 7, 1843; attended the gymnasium at Konitz and the seminary and university at Breslau; became|
1055101195|/articles/6884-gross-charles|American author; born at Troy, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1857; educated at the Troy High School; at Williams College, from which he received the degree of|
116868775|/articles/6885-gross-ferdinand|Austrian writer; born in Vienna April 8, 1849; died at Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna, Dec. 21, 1900. His ancestors lived in Italy; his father|
116868937|/articles/6886-gross-heinrich|German Rabbiner; born at Szenicz, Hungary, Nov. 6, 1835; pupil in Rabbinernical literature of Judah Aszod. After graduating from the Breslau seminary and|
116868988|/articles/6887-gross-jenny|Austrian actress; born at Szanto, Hungary. Educated for the stage by Cesarina Kupfer, she made her début in 1878 at the Carl-theater at Vienna; in|
131427830|/articles/6889-grosser-julius|German physician; born at Freistadt, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 25, 1835; died at Prenzlau, Prussia, Oct. 25, 1901. He studied at the University of|
1081163712|/articles/6892-grossmann-ignaz|American Rabbiner; born at Trencsen, Hungary, July 30, 1825; died March 18, 1897, in New York city. He received his education at the yeshibah of|
117564516|/articles/6894-grossmann-ludwig|Austrian mathematician and political economist; born at Leitomischl, Bohemia, March 14, 1854. As a boy he showed unusual aptitude for physics and|
118542702|/articles/6896-grotius-hugo-huig-van-groot|Dutch Christian diplomat, theologian, and scholar; born at Delft, Holland, April 10, 1583; died at Rostock, Germany, Aug. 28, 1645. In the religious|
116887265|/articles/6900-gruber-joseph|Austrian physician; born at Kosolup, Bohemia, Aug. 4, 1827; died at Vienna March 31, 1900. He graduated (M.D.) from the University of Vienna in|
116887435|/articles/6901-gruby-david|French physician; born at Neusatz (Ujvidék), Hungary, Oct. 10, 1810; died in Paris Nov. 16, 1898. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna,|
11688794X|/articles/6903-grunbaum-max-maier|German Orientalist; born in Seligenstadt, Hesse, July 15, 1817; died in Munich Dec. 11, 1898. Grünbaum studied philology and philosophy at Giessen|
100145426|/articles/6904-grunebaum-elias|German Rabbiner; born in the Palatinate Sept. 10, 1807; died in Landau Sept. 25, 1893. In 1823 he went to Mayence, where he became a pupil of the|
116888652|/articles/6905-grunfeld-alfred|Austrian pianist; born at Prague July 4, 1852; studied under Höger, under Krejci at the Prague Conservatorium, and under Kullak at the Neue Akademic|
116888733|/articles/6906-grunfeld-heinrich|Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague April 21, 1855; a brother of Alfred Grünfeld. Educated at the Prague Conservatorium, he went to Berlin in|
134060628|/articles/6907-grunfeld-josef|Austrian physician and writer; born at Gyönk, Hungary, Nov. 19, 1840. After graduating from the gymnasium at Kaschau, he went successively to the|
105540323X|/articles/6908-grunhut-david|German Rabbiner of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where his father was secretary of the congregation, and his|
116888814|/articles/6909-grunhut-karl-samuel|Austrian jurist; born at Bur-St. Georgen, Hungary, Aug. 3, 1844. He became associate professor in the juridical faculty of the University of Vienna|
139814787|/articles/6910-grunhut-lazar|Hungarian Rabbiner and writer; born at Gerenda, Hungary, in 1850. Receiving his diploma as Rabbiner while a mere youth, he went to Berlin, where he|
116901373|/articles/6911-grunwald-max|German Rabbiner and folklorist; born at Zabrze, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 10, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Gleiwitz and (1889) at the university in|
13940290X|/articles/6912-grunwald-moritz|Austrian Rabbiner; born March 29, 1853, at Ungarisch Hradisch, Moravia; died in London June 10, 1895. After a short stay in Prague he entered (1878)|
116893281|/articles/6913-grunwald-zerkowitz-sidonie|Austrian authoress; born in Tobitschau, Moravia, Feb. 17, 1852. Her early education she received from her father, a physician. With her parents she|
124234496|/articles/6918-guastalla-enrico|V06p104001.jpgEnrico Guastalla.Italian soldier; born at Guastalla 1828; died at Milan Sept. 28, 1903. Though brought up to a commercial life, he|
116909234|/articles/6920-gudemann-moritz|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Hildesheim, Germany, Feb. 19, 1835. He was educated at Breslau (Ph.D. 1858), and took his Rabbinernical diploma (1862) at the|
117576166|/articles/6921-guenee-antoine|French priest and Christian apologist; born at Etampes 1717; died 1803. He wrote, besides various apologetic works, "Lettres de Quelques Juifs|
116917229|/articles/6925-gueterbock-karl-eduard|German jurist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, April 18, 1830. He studied history, later law, at the universities of Königsberg, Bonn, Munich, and|
1095518615|/articles/6928-guggenheimer-randolph|American lawyer; born at Lynchburg, Va., July 20, 1846. His family originally settled in Virginia, where his father was engaged in the cultivation|
119173972|/articles/6929-guglielmo-benjamin|Italian dancing-master; flourished in the fifteenth century at Pesaro. His master was Domenico di Ferrara, in whose "Liber Ballorum" (1460) he is|
116920645|/articles/6930-guhrauer-gottschalk-eduard|German philologist and writer; born at Bojanowo, Prussian Poland, 1809; died at Breslau Jan. 5, 1854. He studied philology and philosophy at Breslau|
119092379|/articles/6931-guidacerius-agathius|Italian Christian Hebraist; born at Rocca-Coragio, Calabria, in the second half of the fifteenth century. Having studied Hebrew under a Portuguese|
118632981|/articles/6933-guillaume-of-auvergne|French scholastic; bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249. He was one of the originators of Christian scholasticism in the thirteenth century. In his|
136096603|/articles/6937-gumperz-aaron-solomon|German scholar and physician; born Dec. 10, 1723; died 1769. In March, 1751, Gumperz graduated as M.D. from the University of Frankfort-on-the-Oder,|
118719475|/articles/6939-gumplowicz-ludwig|Christian historian and jurist; born at Cracow March 9, 1838; studied at the universities of Cracow and Vienna, and practised law at Cracow. In 1876|
102208903X|/articles/6942-gunsberg-isidor|English merchant and chess-master; born in Budapest Nov. 2, 1854. When nine years old he went to England, in which country he has since resided,|
1077916248|/articles/6943-gunsburg-karl-siegfried|German author and preacher; born Dec. 9, 1784, at Lissa; died at Breslau Jan. 23, 1860. He studied philology and philosophy at Berlin, and for a|
13916913X|/articles/6948-gunzburg-david-baron|Russian Orientalist and communal leader; born at Kamenetzetz-Podolsk July 5, 1857. He was educated at home, his teachers being Adolph Neubauer,|
139266569|/articles/6954-gunzburg-mordecai-aaron-ben-judah-asher|Russian Hebrew writer; born at Salanty, government of Kovno, Dec. 3, 1795; died at Wilna Nov. 5, 1846. Having studied Hebrew and Talmud under his|
122325125|/articles/6955-gunzburg-ulma-simon-ben-eliezer|German scholar; communal worker; born at Günzburg, Bavaria, 1506; died at Burgau Jan. 9, 1585. He was the first who adopted and transmitted to his|
173493629|/articles/6956-gurland-jonah-hayyim|Russian and Hebrew writer; born at Kleck, government of Minsk, in 1843; died at Odessa March 14, 1890. At the age of ten Gurland entered the|
117576409|/articles/6958-guterbock-ludwig|German physician; born at Berlin Oct. 23, 1814(University of Berlin, M.D. 1837); died there Feb. 28, 1895. He settled in his native city, and|
117576417|/articles/6959-guterbock-paul|German surgeon; born at Berlin June 2, 1844; died there Oct. 17, 1897. He was educated at the universities of Würzburg and Berlin, graduating (M.D.)|
1079558853|/articles/6960-gutmann-david-ritter-von|Austrian merchant; philanthropist; brother of Wilhelm von Gutmann; born at Leipnik, Moravia, Dec. 24, 1834. As president of the Israelitische|
130072613|/articles/6961-gutmann-moses|Bavarian Rabbiner; born in Baiersdorf 1805; died at Redwitz Feb. 1, 1862; son of Yom-Ṭob Gutmann. Moses Gutmann was educated at Erlangen University,|
120068605|/articles/6962-gutmann-wilhelm-ritter-von|Austrian merchant; philanthropist; born at Leipnik, Moravia, Aug. 18, 1825; died at Vienna May 17, 1895. Destined for a teacher, the unlooked-for|
117591513|/articles/6964-guttmann-paul|German physician and medical author; born at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, Sept. 9, 1833; died in Berlin May 24, 1893. He received his education at the|
116935944|/articles/6965-guttmann-samuel|German gynecologist and medical writer; born at Ostrowo, Prussia, 1839; died at Berlin Dec. 22, 1893. After completing his course at the gymnasium|
119555980|/articles/6966-gutzmann-hermann|German physician; born at Bütow, in Pomerania, Jan. 29, 1865. He received the degree of doctor of medicine fromthe University of Berlin in 1887, and|
136964346|/articles/6969-haarbleicher-moses-m|German author; born in Hamburg Nov. 14, 1797; died there Sept. 25, 1869. Following the example of his father, the founder of the Jewish School of|
1111789789|/articles/6970-haas-robert|German Lutheran minister; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century, in the duchy of Nassau; pastor in the villages of Grävenwiesbach,|
116349298|/articles/6982-haber-solomon-von|German Bankier; born at Breslau Nov. 3, 1760; died Feb. 20, 1839. The son of poor parents, he rose to a position of wealth and eminence by his|
1145752187|/articles/6984-habib-jacob-ben-solomon-ibn|Spanish Talmudist; born at Zamora about 1460; died at Salonica 1516. In his youth Ḥabib studied the Talmud under R. Samuel Valensi. In 1492, when|
142041750|/articles/6986-habib-levi-ben-jacob-ibn|Rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when about seventeen, he was|
1062517288|/articles/7003-hadamard-auguste|French painter; born at Metz 1823; died in Paris 1886. A pupil of Paul Delaroche, he established himself at Paris, where, in addition to painting,|
10407972X|/articles/7006-hadassi-judah-ben-elijah-haabel|Contents of the "Eshkol." Karaite scholar, controversialist, and liturgist; flourished at Constantinople in the middle of the twelfth century.|
103448098|/articles/7007-haddad-isaac|Talmudic scholar of Gerba (an island near Tunis), where he died in 1755. He was a pupil of Ẓemaḥ ha-Kohen, and was the author of two works, "Toledot|
133956873|/articles/7016-haffkine-waldemar-mordecai-wolff|Bacteriologist; born at Odessa, Russia, 1860; graduated from the University of Odessa in 1884 (D.Sc.). He resided for the five following years at|
133089215|/articles/7042-hagiz-jacob|Palestinian Talmudist; born of a Spanish family at Fez in 1620; died at Constantinople 1674. Ḥagiz's teacher was David Karigal ("Ḳorban Minḥah," No.|
119005476|/articles/7043-hagiz-moses|Palestinian Rabbiner and author; born at Jerusalem in 1671; died at Safed after 1750. His father, Jacob Ḥagiz, died while Moses was still a child. The|
116385944|/articles/7047-hahn-august|German theologian and Orientalist; born at Grossosterhausen, Saxony, March 27, 1792; died in Silesia May 13, 1863. He studied theology and Oriental|
143167359|/articles/7048-hahn-joseph-yuspa-nordlinger-joseph-ben-phinehas-nordlingen|German Rabbiner; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died there April 3, 1637. He received a good education from|
143229036|/articles/7051-hai-ben-sherira|Gaon of Pumbedita; born in 939; died March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education from his father, Sherira, and in early life acted as his|
142698229|/articles/7055-haida-samuel|Bohemian cabalistic author; died June 1, 1685, in Prague, where he was dayyan and preacher, and which was probably his native city. He edited the|
118544969|/articles/7060-haindorf-alexander|German physician, writer, and philanthropist; born at Lenhausen, a village in Westphalia, May 12, 1784; died at Hamm Oct. 16, 1862. The son of poor|
116208848|/articles/7082-halban-heinrich-ritter-von|Austrian statesman; born at Cracow 1846; died at Gastein Aug. 13, 1902. Halban, whose name was originally Blumenstock, studied law at Cracow, and|
1053135246|/articles/7086-halberstadt-judah-ben-benjamin|Rabbinical author of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Minḥat Yehudah," giving explanations of all passages in Rashi on Berakot in which|
129572357|/articles/7088-halberstam-solomon-joachim|Austrian scholar; born at Cracow Feb. 23, 1832; died at Bielitz March 24, 1900. His father, Isaac Halberstam, was a prominent merchant who devoted|
1015979459|/articles/7091-halevy-halfan-elie|French Hebrew poet and author; born at Fürth in 1760; died at Paris Nov. 5, 1826; father of Fromenthal and Léon Halévy. At an early age Halévy went|
118832433|/articles/7092-halevy-jacques-francois-fromenthal-elie|French composer; born at Paris May 27, 1799; died at Nice March 17, 1862. His family name was "Levi"; his father, Élie Halévy, was a Bavarian by|
116405309|/articles/7093-halevy-joseph|French Orientalist; born at Adrianople Dec. 15, 1827. While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later in Bucharest, he devoted|
100833330|/articles/7094-halevy-leon|French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy; born at Paris Jan. 14, 1802; died at Saint Germain-en-Laye Sept.|
118919660|/articles/7095-halevy-ludovic|French dramatist; born in Paris Jan. 1, 1834; a son of Léon Halévy and a nephew of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy. He was educated at the Lycéc|
120163683|/articles/7108-halle-aaron-ben-wolf|Translator and commentator of the Bible; born 1754 at Halle; died at Fürth March 20, 1835; son of Dr. Wolf of Fürth. He was a follower of Moses|
10410239X|/articles/7111-halperine-kaminsky-ely|Russian writer; born at Vassilkof April 9, 1858. After having completed his studies at the University of Odessa he went (1880) to Paris, where he|
1031273735|/articles/7112-halphen-fernand|French composer; born at Paris Feb. 18, 1872; pupil of J. Massenet, G. Fauré, and André Gedalge. In 1895 he won the first "accessit" for fugue at|
118813331|/articles/7113-halphen-georges-henri|French army officer and mathematician; born at Rouen Oct. 30, 1844 died at Versailles May 21, 1889. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, and|
138638780|/articles/7114-haltern-joseph|One of the Meassefim; died in Berlin Sept. 5, 1818 (1817, according to Philippson in "Allg. Zeit. des Jud." ii. 216). He wrote "Esther," a Hebrew|
1055226354|/articles/7128-hamberger-c-h|Physician in Leipsic; died March 2, 1847, at an advanced age. He translated G. B. de Rossi's "Dizionario Storico degli Autori Ebrei" into German|
141966785|/articles/7132-hamburger-jacob|German Rabbiner and author; born at Loslau, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1826. He received his early education in Ratibor, and then attended the yeshibot of|
102864837|/articles/7135-hamburger-wolf-abraham-benjamin|Talmudical scholar and head of the yeshibah in Fürth; born Jan. 26, 1770; died May 15, 1850. He was a contemporary of R. Moses Sofer, and is|
118539876|/articles/7141-hameln-gluckel-of-gluckel-von-hameln|German diarist; born about 1646 in Hamburg; died 1724 at Metz. In 1649, when the German Jews were expelled from Hamburg, Glückel's parents moved to|
121911705|/articles/7148-hammerstein-oscar|American theatrical manager; born at Berlin May 8, 1848, where he was educated. In March, 1863, he emigrated to America and settled in New York|
104357231|/articles/7957-hushiel-ben-elhanan|President of the bet ha-midrash at Kairwan toward the end of the tenth century. He was born probably in Italy. According to Abraham ibn Daud, he was|
131785710|/articles/7192-hanau-solomon-ben-judah|German grammarian; born at Hanau (whence his surname) in 1687; died at Hanover Sept. 4, 1746. When but twenty-one he published at|
11940169X|/articles/7193-hanau-zebi-hirsh-ha-levi-ben-haggai-enoch|German Rabbiner; born at Vienna in 1662; died at Gemund, Bavaria, in 1740. He resided for many years at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where he assisted Jair|
108105557X|/articles/7225-hannaux-emmanuel|French sculptor; born at Metz in 1855. He began to study at the industrial school at Strasburg, but returned to Metz on the outbreak of the|
1095573691|/articles/7226-hanneles-haneles-judah-lob-ben-meir|Rabbinical author of the sixteenth century. He wrote "Wayiggash Yehudah" (Lublin, 1599), a commentary on Jacob ben Asher's "Ṭur Oraḥ Ḥayyim,"|
116454520|/articles/7228-hanno-raphael|German writer; born in Hanau 1791; died in Heidelberg 1871. He embraced Christianity and became professor (1824) of Oriental languages at the|
128757795|/articles/7229-hannover-nathan-nata-ben-moses|Russian historian, Talmudist, and cabalist; died, according to Zunz ("Kalender," 5623, p. 18), at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, July 14, 1663. Jacob|
141485884|/articles/9830-levi-raphael|German mathematician; died May 17, 1779, in Hanover, whither his father, Jacob Joseph Levi, a poor pedler, had gone with him, then a boy of eight|
116463600|/articles/7248-harburger-heinrich|German jurist; born at Bayreuth, Bavaria, Oct. 2, 1851. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and at the University of|
118545892|/articles/7250-harden-maximilian|German author; born at Berlin Oct. 20, 1861. Educated in the German capital, where he still resides, he became well known through his political and|
118701568|/articles/7251-hardt-hermann-von-der|German Protestant theologian and philologist; born at Melle, Westphalia, Nov. 15, 1660; died Feb. 28, 1746. He studied at Osnabrück, Jena, and|
124896464|/articles/7260-harkavy-albert-abraham-yakovlevich|Russian Orientalist and historian; born at Novogrudok, government of Minsk, Oct. 27, 1839. His father, Jacob Harkavy, was a wealthy merchant and a|
138747989|/articles/7261-harland-henry|American author; born at St. Petersburg March, 1861; educated at the College of the City of New York and at Harvard. From 1883 to 1886 he was in the|
173940218|/articles/7270-harris-maurice-henry|American Rabbiner; born Nov. 9, 1859, in London, England; educated in London and at Columbia College, New York city, graduating in 1887 (M.A., Ph.D.),|
116485116|/articles/7267-harris-sir-augustus-glossop|English actor, playwright, and theatrical manager; born in Paris 1852; died at Folkestone, England, June 22, 1896. Harris made possible the|
117498610|/articles/7280-hart-ernest-abraham|English physician and editor; born in London 1836; died there Jan. 7, 1898. He was educated at the City of London School and Queen's College,|
117498688|/articles/7284-hart-solomon-alexander|Artist, and librarian at the Royal Academy, London; born at Plymouth April, 1806; died in London June 11, 1881. In 1823 he was entered at the Royal|
116491418|/articles/7286-hartmann-anton-theodor|German author; born at Düsseldorf June 25, 1774; died at Rostock April 20, 1838. At Göttingen, Eichhorn led him to turn his attention to the study|
118773348|/articles/7287-hartmann-moritz|Austrian poet; born at Przibram, Bohemia, Oct., 1821; died at Oberdöbling, near Vienna, May 13, 1872. He was educated at the gymnasiums at|
116502428|/articles/7289-hartog-edouard-de|Dutch composer; born in Amsterdam Aug. 15, 1826; studied under Bartelmann, Döhler, Mme. Dulcken, and Hoch; subsequently with Elwart and Litolff, and|
173070620|/articles/7290-hartog-levi-de|Dutch jurist; born at Gorinchem (Gorkum), Holland, Nov. 6, 1835; studied law and (under Professor Dozy) Oriental languages at the University of|
11650336X|/articles/7296-hartvigson-frits|Danish pianist; born at Grenaae, Jutland, May 31, 1841. His first instructors in piano were his mother and Anton Rée. In 1859 he went to Berlin,|
1187284505|/articles/7303-hasdai-abu-omar-joseph-ibn|Judæo-Spanish poet of the eleventh century; probably born at Cordova; died between 1045 and 1055. Ibn Janaḥ, in his "Luma'" (p. 152="Riḳmah," p. 86;|
10435724X|/articles/7304-hasdai-abu-yusuf-ben-isaac-ben-ezra-ibn-shaprut|Spanish physician, diplomat, and patron of Jewish science; born about 915 at Jaen; died 970 or 990 at Cordova. His father was a wealthy and learned|
116539062|/articles/7338-hauser-miska-michael|Hungarian violin virtuoso; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1822; died at Vienna Dec. 8, 1887; pupil of Joseph Matalay, and later of Kreutzer, Mayseder,|
116539224|/articles/7339-hauser-philipp|Hungarian physician, and writer on medical topics; born at Nádas, Hungary, April 2, 1832. For several years he attended the Talmudic school at|
1055359826|/articles/7341-haussmann-david|German physician; born at Ratibor, Silesia, July 22, 1839; died at Berlin May 26, 1903. He received his education in the Jewish school and in the|
1063214793|/articles/7352-hayem-charles|French collector and art patron; born in Paris in 1839; died there May 13, 1902; eldest son of Simon Hayem. His wife was the daughter of Adolphe|
117508721|/articles/7353-hayem-georges|French physician; born in Paris Nov. 25, 1841; son of Simon Hayem. He became doctor of medicine in 1868, and later "agrégé" of the faculty of Paris.|
124042708|/articles/7387-hayyim-b-moses-attar|Italian Rabbiner; born at Sale, near Brescia, Italy, 1696; died in Jerusalem 1743. He was educated under the care of his grandfather, R. Ḥayyim. He|
118895311|/articles/7375-hayyim-ben-isaac-of-volozhin-hayyim-volozhiner|Russian Rabbiner and educator; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna, Jan. 21, 1749; died there June 14, 1821. Both he and his elder brother Simḥah (d.|
137255160|/articles/7396-hayyim-ben-solomon-of-moghilef|Rabbi and cabalist; died at Jerusalem in 1813. He was one of the Ḥasidic followers of Israel Ba'al Shem, and after he had been Rabbiner at five|
1089705735|/articles/7394-hayyim-shabbethai|Rabbi of Salonica; born about 1556; died 1647. After studying in the yeshibah of Salonica under Aaron Sason, Ḥayyim became a member of the bet din|
188419624|/articles/7365-hayyim-abraham-ben-judah-ibn|Spanish scholar and scribe of the thirteenth century. He wrote a Spanish treatise on the preparation of gold-foil and colors for miniatures; also a|
131807633|/articles/7369-hayyim-elijah-ibn|Rabbi of Constantinople, perhaps the immediate successor of Elijah. Mizraḥi; born about 1532; died in the beginning of the seventeenth century. In|
13022524X|/articles/7404-hayyuj-judah-b-david-abu-zakariyya-yahya-ibn-daud|Father of Scientific Hebrew Grammar. Spanish-Hebrew grammarian; born in Fez, Morocco, about 950. At an early age he went to Cordova, where he seems|
1048751279|/articles/7407-hayyun-nehemiah-hiyya-ben-moses|Excommunicated at Jerusalem. Bosnian cabalist; born about 1650; died about 1730. His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where|
1020690968|/articles/7422-hazkuni-abraham-ben-hezekiah|Galician Talmudist and cabalist; born at Cracow in 1627; died at Tripoli, Syria. He was a disciple of Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller, and the author of the|
1015081401|/articles/7469-hecht-emanuel|German educationist; born 1821 in Nordheim, Bavaria; died Feb. 25, 1862, in Hoppstädten, Birkenfeld-Oldenburg. On graduating in 1842 from the Royal|
11656282X|/articles/7470-heckscher-ferdinand|German act-or; born at Berlin 1806; died at Sondershausen Feb. 28, 1891. Heckscher, who had a fine bass voice, began his theatrical career as a|
1053424795|/articles/7475-hefez-b-yazliah|Halakist; lived toward the end of the tenth century. Rapoport assumes him to have beena Palestinian, but it is more probable that he lived in|
118547739|/articles/7477-hegel-georg-wilhelm-friedrich|German Philosoph; born at Stuttgart 1770; died at Berlin 1831. After studying at theUniversity of Tübingen he became tutor at Bern and|
131937847|/articles/7481-heidenheim-philip|German Rabbiner and teacher; born at Bleicherode June 14, 1814. In 1834 he was called as teacher to Sondershausen, where he worked under I. Wolffson,|
122702964|/articles/7482-heidenheim-wolf-benjamin-ben-samson|His Pentateuch. V06p319001.jpgWolf Heidenheim.German exegete and grammarian; born at Heidenheim in 1757; died at Rödelheim Feb. 23, 1832. At an|
104201738|/articles/7485-heilbron-david|Dutch physician; born at The Hague July 4, 1762; died at Amsterdam 1847. He was educated at the University of Leyden, graduating (M.D.) in 1784.|
1038083508|/articles/7491-heilbuth-ferdinand|French painter; born at Hamburg in 1826; died Nov. 19, 1889, at Paris, where he had been naturalized ten years previously. His work is characterized|
117510246|/articles/7494-heilprin-angelo|American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin; born March 31, 1853, at Sátoralja-Ujhely, Hungary. He was taken by his father|
132168677|/articles/7496-heilprin-jehiel-ben-solomon|Lithuanian Rabbiner, cabalist, and chronicler; born about 1660; died at Minsk about 1746. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria, and traced his|
1057640271|/articles/7499-heilprin-louis|American encyclopedist; son of Michael Heilprin; born in Miskolcz, Hungary, July 2, 1851. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in|
1069142212|/articles/7500-heilprin-michael|Association with Kossuth. Polish-American scholar, author, and philanthropist; born in Piotrkow, Russian Poland, Feb. 23, 1823; died in Summit, N.|
141542713|/articles/7501-heilprin-phinehas-mendel|Polish Hebraist; born in Lublin Nov., 1801; died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1863. Trained in the study of the Talmud and its commentaries, his|
135689570|/articles/7505-heine-gustav-freiherr-von-geldern|Austrian publicist; born June 18, 1812, at Düsseldorf; died Nov. 15, 1886, at Vienna; brother of Heinrich Heine. On completing his preliminary|
118548018|/articles/7506-heine-heinrich|German lyric poet and essayist; born at Düsseldorf Dec. 13, 1797; died in Paris Feb. 17, 1856; son of Samson Heine and Betty von Geldern. Though|
11665936X|/articles/7507-heine-maximilian|German physician; youngest brother of Heinrich Heine; born at Düsseldorf (1805 according to Embden; Strodtmann gives 1807); died at Berlin Nov. 6,|
118548026|/articles/7508-heine-solomon|German merchant and philanthropist; born in Hanover 1767; died in Hamburg Dec. 26, 1844. Going to Hamburg when he was sixteen and practically|
13280283X|/articles/7509-heinefetter-klara-madame-stockl|German singer; born at Mayence Feb. 17, 1816; died at Vienna Feb. 24, 1857. In 1829 she accompanied her eldest sister, Sabine, to Paris, where the|
116659718|/articles/7510-heinefetter-sabine|German soprano opera-singer; born Aug. 19, 1809, at Mayence; died insane Feb. 18, 1872, at Illenau, Baden. Beginning life as a strolling harpist,|
11666004X|/articles/7511-heinemann-heinrich|German actor; born at Bischofsburg, East Prussia, Sept. 15, 1842. After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm gymnasium, Berlin, he went on the|
116660147|/articles/7512-heinemann-jeremiah|German author; born at Sandersleben July 20, 1778; died in Berlin Oct. 16, 1855; son of Rabbi Joachim Heinemann. In 1808 he was appointed secular|
1011739402|/articles/7514-heitler-moritz|Austrian physician; born at Korompa, Hungary, March 21, 1847. He was educated at the gymnasia at Hódmezö-Vásárhely and Szegedin, and at the|
1041767323|/articles/7519-hekscher-ephraim-ben-samuel-sanvel|President of the Jewish congregation at Altona at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Dibre Ḥakamim we-Ḥidotam," giving|
141785446|/articles/7529-helin-jacob-moses-ben-abraham-ashkenazi|Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died about 1700. He studied at Lublin under R. Naphtali ha-Kohen and R. Heshel, and was the son-in-law of Löb|
11668657X|/articles/7536-heller-isidor|Austrian author; born May 5, 1816, at Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia; died at Arco, Tyrol, Dec. 19, 1879. He was studying to become a Rabbiner when (1837) his|
141543558|/articles/7537-heller-jehiel-b-aaron|Russian Rabbiner; born in Koidanov, government of Minsk. 1814; died at Plungian, government of Kovno, Nov. 14, 1861. He was a descendant of Rabbi|
1053420382|/articles/7538-heller-joshua-ben-aaron|Russian Rabbiner and preacher; born 1814; died at Telshi, government of Kovno, June 2, 1880. After having been for several years preacher in Grodno,|
116686944|/articles/7540-heller-seligmann|Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz, Bohemia, July 8, 1831; died in Vienna Jan. 8, 1890. After completing his course at the University of|
118773852|/articles/7541-heller-stephen|Hungarian pianist and composer; born at Budapest May 15, 1815; died in Paris Jan. 14, 1888. He was originally destined for the law, but soon decided|
120084171|/articles/7542-heller-yom-tob-lipmann-ben-nathan-ben-moses-levi|Rabbi and liturgical poet; born at Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1579; died at Cracow Sept. 7, 1654. Erroneously the editor of the "Megillat Ebah" concludes|
118773917|/articles/7557-hengstenberg-ernst-wilhelm|German Bible exegete; born Oct. 20, 1802, at Fröndenberg, Westphalia; died at Berlin May 28, 1869; studied theology and Oriental languages at the|
135933323|/articles/7558-henikstein-alfred-freiherr-von|Austrian general; born Aug. 11, 1810, at Ober-Döbling; died Jan. 29, 1882, in Vienna. He was the son of the Bankier Joseph von Henikstein. After|
11671011X|/articles/7559-henle-elise|German novelist and dramatist; born in Munich 1830; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 18, 1892; she was a niece of the poetess Henriette|
129841676|/articles/7560-henle-elkan|One of the earliest champions of the emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria; born Dec. 7, 1761, in Fürth; died there Oct. 14, 1833. He was the author|
118549154|/articles/7561-henle-friedrich-gustav-jacob|Genealogical Tree of the Hendricks Family.V06p346001.jpgGerman anatomist; born at Fürth, Bavaria, July 19, 1809; died at Göttingen May 13, 1885. He|
138219710|/articles/7562-henle-sigmund-von|Bavarian deputy; born June 30, 1821; died at Munich Oct. 9, 1901. He was a descendant of Löb Berlin, the district Rabbiner of Bamberg in 1789-94.|
116717300|/articles/7563-henoch-eduard-heinrich|German physician; born at Berlin June 16, 1820. After taking the degree of M.D. there (1843), he began to practise as a specialist in diseases of|
135471354|/articles/7569-henriques-robert-martin|Danish musician, composer, and author; born in Copenhagen Dec. 14, 1858. He received instruction in violoncello from Bendix and Neruda, and in 1877|
133968006|/articles/7571-henry-ii|King of Castile; born at Seville in 1333; died in 1379; illegitimate brother of Pedro I. He was as hostile to the Jews as Pedro had been friendly.|
116719656|/articles/7575-henschel-august-wilhelm-eduard-theodor|German physician and botanist; born in Breslau Dec. 20, 1790; died there July 24, 1856; educated at the medical and surgical college at Breslau, the|
142976741|/articles/7576-henschel-elias-h|German physician; born at Breslau April 4, 1755; died in 1839; father of A. W. Henschel. He commenced life as an errand-boy, and for some time was|
116719710|/articles/7577-henschel-georg-isidor|German composer and barytone singer; born Feb. 18, 1850, at Breslau, where he studied with Wandelt and Schäffer. He made his first appearance as a|
124361315|/articles/7581-hepner-adolf|German-American journalist; born at Schmiegel, Posen, Nov. 24, 1846; educated at the gymnasium at Lissa, the Rabbinernical seminary at Breslau, and the|
116730277|/articles/7584-herczeghy-moriz|Hungarian physician and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1815; died in Vienna Dec. 23, 1884. He studied medicine in Budapest and Vienna, and|
1011831090|/articles/7585-herczel-mano-de-szentpeteri|Hungarian physician; born in Szegedin July 1, 1861; studied successively in his native city, in Ujvidék, in Budapest, in Vienna, in Strasburg, and|
118549553|/articles/7586-herder-johann-gottfried-von|German Protestant theologian, poet, and writer; born at Mohrungen, East Prussia, Aug. 25, 1744; died at Weimar Dec. 21, 1803. He studied theology,|
100969429|/articles/7587-heredia-paulus-pablo-de|Spanish anti-Jewish writer; born about 1405 in Aragon; died at an advanced age after 1486. Baptized late in life, he attacked Judaism, though he had|
118896512|/articles/7594-hermann-ludimar|German physiologist; born in Berlin Oct. 21, 1838; M.D. Berlin, 1859. He engaged in practise in his native city, and in 1865 became privat-docent at|
118549847|/articles/7598-herod-i|King of Judea 40-4 B.C.; founder of the Herodian dynasty; born about 73 B.C.; son of Antipater, and, consequently, of Idumean origin. It is said|
1089147775|/articles/7609-herrera-alonzo-de|Cabalist; born in Spain; died in Amsterdam, Holland, 1631. According to D. L. de Barrios, Herrera was descended from the famous Spanish commander,|
1106410572|/articles/7610-herrmann-leo|French painter; born in Paris July 12, 1853. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris, and exhibited his first picture, "A Bout|
118841920|/articles/7611-herschel-sir-william|English astronomer; born at Hanover Nov. 15, 1738; died at Slough, near Windsor, England, Aug. 22, 1822. His Jewish descent is acknowledged by his|
1049476433|/articles/7612-herschell-lord-farrer|Lord Chancellor of England; born 1837; died March 1, 1899. His father was the Rev. Ridley H. Herschell. He was educated at University College,|
119361116|/articles/7615-hertz-henrik|Danish poet; born Aug. 25, 1798, at Copenhagen; died there Feb. 25, 1870. He studied law at the University of Copenhagen, but, soon renouncing it,|
120975823|/articles/7616-hertz-joseph-herman|American Rabbiner; born at Rebrin, Zemplén Comitat, Hungary, Sept. 25, 1872; educated at the College of the City of New York, at Columbia University|
118825186|/articles/7618-hertzka-theodor|Austrian economist and journalist; born July 13, 1845, at Budapest. He studied at the universities of Vienna and Budapest, and in 1872 became a|
123675030|/articles/7621-herxheimer-salomon|German Rabbiner; born Feb. 6, 1801, at Dotzheim, near Wiesbaden; died Dec. 25, 1884, at Berenberg. At the age of thirteen he began his theological|
1021110914|/articles/7622-herz-cornelius|French electrician; born in Besançon 1848; died in Bournemouth, England, July 6, 1898. Herz's parents were Germans who had emigrated to France. He|
1023501597|/articles/7623-herz-elise-von-lamel|Austrian philanthropist; born at Prague Dec. 20, 1788; died at Vienna July 25, 1868. Her home in Prague was an intellectual center. On the death of|
116759194|/articles/7624-herz-henri|Austrian pianist; born at Vienna Jan. 6, 1806; died at Paris Jan. 5, 1888. He commenced his studies at Coblenz under the guidance of his father, and|
118550152|/articles/7625-herz-henriette|German leader of society; born in Berlin Sept. 5, 1764; died there Oct. 22, 1847. From her father, De Lemos, a physician, descended from a|
116759283|/articles/7626-herz-jacob|German physician; born at Bayreuth Feb. 2, 1816; died at Erlangen Sept. 27, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Bayreuth and the University of|
116759267|/articles/7627-herz-jacques-simon|Pianist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1794; died at Nice Jan. 27, 1880. He went to Paris when a child, and in 1807 was admitted to the|
118933876|/articles/7628-herz-markus|German physician and lecturer on philosophy; born June 17, 1747, at Berlin; died there Jan. 19, 1803. The son of very poor parents, he was destined|
11676001X|/articles/7630-herzberg-frankel-leo|Austrian writer; born at Brody, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1827. At the age of seventeen he went for a year to Bessarabia, and on his return published|
116760036|/articles/7631-herzberg-frankel-sigmund|Austrian historian; born at Brody, Galicia, March 7, 1857; son of Leo Herzberg-Fränkel. He studied law at the University of Vienna (from 1874). and,|
117523682|/articles/7633-herzenstein-solomon-markovich|Russian zoologist; born 1854; died 1894; graduated in natural sciences and mathematics from the St. Petersburg University; appointed in 1880|
116760524|/articles/7634-herzfeld-adolf|German actor; born April 9, 1800, at Hamburg; died at Vienna March 24, 1874; son of Jacob Herzfeld. He made his début in Hamburg in 1821, where he|
116760575|/articles/7635-herzfeld-albrecht|Austrian actor; born June 7, 1840, at Vienna; son of Adolf Herzfeld. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town, and entered a|
116760931|/articles/7636-herzfeld-jacob|German actor and theatrical manager; born at Dessau Jan. 3, 1769; died at Hamburg Oct. 24, 1826. After studying medicine at Leipsic University he|
124400329|/articles/7637-herzfeld-jacob|German chemist; born at Mülheim, near Cologne, June 17, 1859; educated at the gymnasium and technical high school of Charlottenburg, and the|
116761040|/articles/7638-herzfeld-levi|German Rabbiner and historian; born Dec. 27, 1810, at Ellrich; died at Brunswick March 11, 1884. Having chosen the Rabbinernical career, he studied under|
116761628|/articles/7639-herzl-siegmund|Austrian merchant and novelist; born at Vienna May 26, 1830; died there Feb. 9, 1889. He wrote: "Liederbuch eines Dorfpoeten," 1853; "Lieder eines|
118550241|/articles/7640-herzl-theodor|Leader of political Zionism; born in Budapest May 2, 1860. Herzl settled in Vienna in his boyhood, and was educated there for the law, taking the|
117523720|/articles/7641-herzog-jakob|Austrian writer; born at Misslitz, Moravia, June 17, 1842. He was educated at Brönn, Vienna, and Graz. When only seventeen years of age he wrote for|
1012272605|/articles/7646-hess-isaac|Advocate of Jewish emancipation in Württemberg; born in Lauchheim, near Ellwangen, in 1789; died Oct. 6, 1866. Destined for the Rabbinernate, he was|
141374365|/articles/7647-hess-mendel|German Rabbiner; born at Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar, March 17, 1807; died at Eisenach Sept. 21, 1871. He was one of the first Jewish theologians to combine|
136577741|/articles/7648-hess-michael|German educator and author; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Weimar, April 9, 1782; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Feb. 26, 1860; brother of Mendel Hess. His|
118550373|/articles/7649-hess-moses-moritz|Jewish socialist and nationalist; born at Bonn June 21, 1812; died in Paris April 6, 1875; buried in the Jewish cemetery at Cologne. His|
11678508X|/articles/7658-hevesi-ludwig|Hungarian journalist and author; born Dec. 20, 1843, in Heves, Hungary. He began to study medicine and classical philology in Budapest and Vienna,|
116786825|/articles/7662-heydemann-heinrich|German archeologist; born at Greifswald Aug. 28, 1842; died at Halle Oct. 10, 1889; studied classical philology and archeology at the universities|
117739081|/articles/7665-heymann-isaac-h|Dutch cantor and composer; born about 1834; son of Phinchas Heymann. After having made several tours through Hungary, Heymann was cantor|
116792477|/articles/7666-heymann-karl|German pianist; born at Filehne, Posen, Oct. 6, 1853; son of Isaac H. Heymann. He received his early musical education at the Cologne|
116792728|/articles/7667-heymann-paul|German laryngoscopist; born at Pankow, near Berlin, 1849; studied medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg (M.D., Berlin, 1874). After taking a|
1053391471|/articles/7672-hezekiah-ben-manoah|French exegete of the thirteenth century. In memory of his father, who lost his right hand through his stead-fastness in the faith, Hezekiah wrote|
103110240|/articles/7679-hibat-allah-abu-al-barakat-b-ali-b-malka-malkan-al-baladi|Arabian physician of the twelfth century; born in Bassora. He went to Bagdad in order to study medicine under the physician Sa'id b. Hibat Allah;|
116797843|/articles/7691-hilberg-isidor|Austrian philologist; born May 28, 1852, at Byelaya Tzerkov, Ukraine, Russia. In 1856 he went with his parents to Vienna, where he received his|
118704796|/articles/7693-hildesheimer-israel-azriel|German Rabbiner, and leader of Orthodox Judaism; born at Halberstadt May 20, 1820; died at Berlin July 12, 1899; son of R. Löb Glee Hildesheimer. He|
116812397|/articles/7709-hiller-eduard|German philologist; nephew of Ferdinand Hiller; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main April 14, 1844; died at Halle March 7, 1891. Educated at the|
118704931|/articles/7710-hiller-ferdinand|German composer and musical writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1811; died at Cologne May 10, 1885. He studied with Hofmann (violin),|
119256355|/articles/7711-hillquit-morris|American lawyer and socialist; born at Riga, Russia, Aug. 1, 1870, educated at the gymnasium of that town. He emigrated to the United States in|
11855140X|/articles/7716-hippocrates|Greek physician; born in Cos 460 B.C.; died at Larissa in Thessaly about 360 B.C. He studied medicine under Herodicus of Selymbria and under his|
1023501813|/articles/7723-hirsch-albert|Austrian playwright; born in Vienna June 29, 1841. He was first a public-school-teacher; then went on the stage, playing, among other places, in the|
116903864|/articles/7725-hirsch-august|German physician and medico-historical writer; born at Danzig Oct. 4, 1817; died at Berlin Jan. 28, 1894. After having followed commerce for a few|
123551307|/articles/7739-hirsch-baron-maurice-de-moritz-hirsch-freiherr-auf-gereuth|Foundation of His Fortune. German philanthropist; born at Munich Dec. 9, 1831; died near Ersek-Ujvar, Hungary, April 21, 1896; eldest son of Baron|
137580290|/articles/7726-hirsch-clara-de-baroness-de-hirsch-gereuth|Wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch; born at Antwerp June 13, 1833; died in Paris April 1, 1899. Her mother was a sister of Solomon H. Goldschmidt, who|
1146813872|/articles/7727-hirsch-david|German instructor of deafmutes; born at Müntz, Rhenish Prussia, May 23, 1813; died at Rotterdam Feb. 2, 1895. He studied at the Heinicke institute|
137580355|/articles/7728-hirsch-emil-gustav|American Rabbiner; professor of Rabbinernical literature and philosophy in the University of Chicago; born in the grand duchy of Luxemburg May 22, 1852;|
1102965952|/articles/7729-hirsch-fischl|Hebrew bookseller; died at Berlin June 5, 1899. About 1860 he settled at Halberstadt, and founded a Jewish printing and publishing business. He soon|
116907029|/articles/7730-hirsch-franz-arnold|Austrian dramatist and miscellaneous writer; born in Horitz, Bohemia, June 15, 1815; died in Vienna Nov. 24, 1896. After leaving the gymnasium|
142957968|/articles/7732-hirsch-gaston|French dramatic author; born at Metz 1830. His chief plays are: "Le Préjugé"; "Un Malheureux Caractère"; "La Marquise des Rues" (music by Hervé),|
124651356|/articles/7733-hirsch-jacob-von|German Bankier; grandfather of Maurice de Hirsch; born in 1764 at Königshofen, near Würzburg; died March 23, 1841, at Munich. Although in his youth|
116904755|/articles/7735-hirsch-jenny|German authoress and advocate of women's rights; born Nov. 25, 1829, at Zerbst, Anhalt; died March 9, 1902, at Berlin. After the death of her|
141374853|/articles/7736-hirsch-joseph-von|German Bankier; father of Maurice de Hirsch; born July 2, 1805, at Würzburg; died Dec. 9, 1885, at Munich. After completing his studies he entered|
1047686937|/articles/7738-hirsch-markus|Chief Rabbiner of Hamburg; born at Tisza-Beö, Hungary, Feb. 17, 1833. In 1853 he went to Prague, where he became the pupil of I. L. Rapoport, attending|
116905549|/articles/7740-hirsch-max|German economist and deputy; born in Halberstadt Dec. 30, 1832. His parents removed at the end of the thirties to Magdeburg, where Max received his|
118774522|/articles/7741-hirsch-samson-raphael|German Rabbiner; born at Hamburg June 20, 1808; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1888. His father, though a merchant, devoted much of his time to|
117747955|/articles/7742-hirsch-samuel|American Rabbiner; born at Thalfang, near Treves, Rhenish Prussia, June 8, 1815; died in Chicago, Ill., May 14, 1889; educated at the universities of|
116905921|/articles/7744-hirsch-siegfried|German historian; born at Berlin Nov. 5, 1816; died at Paris Sept. 11, 1860; cousin of Theodor Hirsch. From 1833 to 1836 he studied history at the|
116905999|/articles/7746-hirsch-theodor|German historian; born Dec. 17, 1806, at Altschottland, near Danzig; died Feb. 17, 1881. He studied theology, history, and geography at Berlin|
116906480|/articles/7749-hirschberg-julius|German ophthalmologist; born at Potsdam Sept. 18, 1843. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and at the University of|
144000784|/articles/7753-hirschel-moses-christian-moritz|German writer; born at Breslau Sept. 13, 1754; continued to live in that city. On being baptized (1804) he took the name of "Christian Moritz." He|
14184048X|/articles/7754-hirschensohn-isaac-m|Jerusalem Talmudist; bibliophile; born at Pinsk, in the government of Minsk, Russia, in 1844. As a boy of three he accompanied his father, Jacob|
101160097|/articles/7755-hirschfeld-gustav|German archeologist, geographer, and topographer; born Nov. 4, 1847, at Pyritz, Pomerania; died April 20, 1895, at Wiesbaden. He studied philology|
172761573|/articles/7756-hirschfeld-hartwig|English Orientalist; born at Thorn, Prussia. He studied at Posen, at the universities of Berlin and Strasburg, and at Paris under Derenbourg. In|
1137490950|/articles/7757-hirschfeld-ludwik-maurycy|Polish anatomist; born at Nadarzyn, government of Warsaw, 1816; died at Warsaw 1876. Hirschfeld received a Talmudical education at home, but, not|
116914149|/articles/7758-hirschfeld-otto|German historian, epigrapher, and archeologist; born March 16, 1843, at Königsberg, Prussia. He studied philology and history at the universities of|
119060620|/articles/7759-hirschfeld-robert|Austrian writer on music; born Sept. 17, 1857, in Moravia; educated at the universities of Breslau and Vienna. He also studied at the Conservatorium|
116914475|/articles/7761-hirschfelder-solomon|German genre painter; born May 16, 1832, at Dettensee, near Horb, on the Neckar; died at Munich May 10, 1903. He was a student at the Academy in|
122990714|/articles/7763-hirschl-adolf|Hungarian painter; born at Temesvar, Hungary, Jan. 31, 1860; studied (1874-1882) at the Vienna Academy, where for two years (1882-1884) he won a|
1011872420|/articles/7764-hirschler-ignaz|Hungarian oculist; born at Presburg 1823; died at Budapest Nov. 11, 1891. He studied medicine at Vienna. After practising for two years at Paris he|
121069265|/articles/7765-hirschmann-henri-louis|French composer; born at Saint-Mandé, department of the Seine, April 30, 1873. He studied under André Gedalge, and, for two years, under J. Massenet|
121758443|/articles/7766-hirschsprung-heinrich|Danish manufacturer and art-collector; born in Copenhagen Feb. 7, 1836; son of Abraham Marcus Hirschsprung (1793-1871), who in 1826 founded one of|
1079326065|/articles/7768-hirszenberg-samuel|Polish painter; born at Lodz 1866. He studied at the Academy of Cracow from 1881 to 1885, and completed his studies at Munich (1885-89). He began|
131521594|/articles/7774-hittites|A race of doubtful ethnic and linguistic affinities that occupied, from the sixteenth century until 717 B.C., a territory of vague extent, but which|
116917482|/articles/7775-hitzig-ferdinand|German Christian theologian; born at Hauingen, Baden, June 23, 1807; died at Heidelberg Jan. 22, 1875. After studying under Gesenius at Halle and|
1146432879|/articles/7796-hochstadter-benjamin|German Rabbiner; born 1810 at Hürben, Bavaria; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 8, 1888. As teacher and preacher at Heddernheim, near Frankfort|
143482041|/articles/7798-hock-simon|Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 27, 1815; died at Vienna Oct. 22, 1887. For several decades he gave his spare time to the collection of|
140702520|/articles/7801-hoffa-joseph|German philologist and archeologist; born Aug. 18, 1803, at Cassel; died about 1843. His father was paymaster of the army. In 1816 he entered the|
119356422|/articles/7804-hoffmann-david|Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary at Berlin; born at Verbó, Hungary, Nov. 24, 1843. After attending various yeshibot in his native town he entered|
137067135|/articles/7806-hofmann-isaak-low-edler-von-hofmannsthal|Austrian merchant; born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia; died at Vienna Dec. 12, 1849. During the|
121825116|/articles/7807-hoga-stanislaus|English convert to Christianity; lived in London in the nineteenth century. He published "Songs of Zion," a selection of English and German hymns|
124434541|/articles/7813-holdheim-samuel|Early Training. German Rabbiner and author; leader of the extreme wing of the Reform movement; born at Kempen, Posen, in 1806; died at Berlin Aug. 22,|
116961244|/articles/7816-holitscher-philip|Hungarian land holder and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1822. His parents destined him for a mercantile career, and in 1842 he took over his|
1167826914|/articles/7817-hollaenderski-leon-lob-ben-david|Polish scholar and author; born at Wistiniecz, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1808; died in Paris Dec. 20, 1878. He studied at Königsberg,|
136924867|/articles/7819-hollander-jacob-h|Associate professor of political economy and head of the department of political economy in the Johns Hopkins University; born in Baltimore July 23,|
137627831|/articles/7820-hollander-ludwig-heinrich|German dental surgeon; born at Leobschütz Feb. 4, 1833; died at Halle March 14, 1897; educated at the universities at Würzburg and Breslau (M.D.|
116973943|/articles/7834-holzmann-michael|Austrian historian of literature; born at Slavaten, Moravia, June 21, 1860; studied at Lemberg, Vienna, and Berlin (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1891 he has|
134020626|/articles/7835-homberg-herz|Austrian educator and writer; born at Lieben, near Prague, Sept., 1749; died Aug. 24, 1841. He studied Talmud at Prague, Presburg, and Gross-Glogau,|
136481612|/articles/7848-honig-israel-edler-von-honigsberg|Austrian tobacco-manufacturer; born at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Oct., 1724; died at Vienna Jan. 19, 1808. He is noteworthy in the history of the|
119267306|/articles/7853-hoogstraten-hochstraten-jacob-van|Belgian controversialist; born at Hoogstraeten, Belgium, about 1460; died at Cologne Jan. 21, 1527. He studied at Louvain and Cologne, and became|
11700958X|/articles/7870-hornthal-franz-ludwig-von|German jurist and author; born in Hamburg March 5, 1763; died at Bamberg June 27, 1853. After studying at Bamberg he was appointed teacher to the|
118707132|/articles/7874-horovitz-markus|German Rabbiner and historian; born March 14, 1844, at Ladány, near Tokaj, Hungary. The descendant of an ancient family of scholars, he pursued his|
139414398|/articles/7880-horowitz-horwitz-phinehas-levi|Rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Poland about 1731; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main July 1, 1805. The descendant of a long line of Rabbinernical|
123549310|/articles/7876-horowitz-isaiah|German cabalist, Rabbiner, and author; born at Prague about 1555; died at Safed about 1630. At an early age he accompanied his father, Abraham|
137067593|/articles/7877-horowitz-lazar-eleazar|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Flosz, Bavaria, 1803; died at Vöslau, near Vienna, June 11, 1868. He was the son of David Joshua Hoeshel, Rabbiner of Flosz,|
117010030|/articles/7878-horowitz-leopold|Hungarian painter; born in 1837 at Rozgony, near Kaschau, where he attended the gymnasium. He received instruction in painting from Roth until 1850,|
1053298005|/articles/7884-horschetzky-moritz|Austrian physician and writer; born at Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1788; died Nov. 7, 1859, at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, where he had been practising medicine|
142447595|/articles/7889-horwitz-aryeh-lob-ben-zebi-halevi|Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. After having been "rosh yeshibah" in several German towns Horwitz was called in a similar capacity|
1013603702|/articles/7891-horwitz-bernard|Chess player and writer on chess; born 1809 in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg; died in London 1885. A chess pupil of Mendheim in Berlin, he became|
122854187|/articles/7903-hoshke-reuben|Cabalist; Rabbiner of Prague; (died April 3, 1673. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken by De Rossi|
104286547|/articles/7909-hottinger-johann-heinrich|Swiss Christian Hebraist; born at Zurich March 10, 1620; drowned in the Limmat, in Switzerland, June 5, 1667. Having studied Oriental languages and|
129352802|/articles/7910-houbigant-charles-francois|French Christian Hebraist; born in Paris in 1686; died there Oct. 31, 1783. In 1704 Houbigant entered the order of the Congregation of the Oratory.|
173223052|/articles/7911-hourwich-isaac-aaronovich|American statistician; born at Wilna, Russia, April 27, 1860; educated at the gymnasium of Minsk and the University of St. Petersburg. As a student,|
119440229|/articles/7912-hourwitz-zalkind|Polish scholar; born at Lublin, Poland, about 1740; died at Paris in 1812. Endowed with great ability and thirsting for learning, he left his native|
138856621|/articles/7918-hubsch-adolph|American preacher; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1830; died in New York city Oct. 10, 1884. Hübsch was descended from the Jaffe|
1146599951|/articles/7931-huna|His Liberality. Babylonian amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; born about 216 (212 according to Grätz); died in 296-297|
119034891|/articles/7940-hupfeld-hermann|German Christian Biblical scholar; born at Marburg March 31, 1796; died at Halle April 24, 1866. He was professor of Old Testament exegesis at|
119045141|/articles/7945-hurwitz-adolf|German mathematician; born March 26, 1859, at Hildesheim; studied at Munich, Berlin, and Leipsic. In 1882 he became privat-docent at Göttingen; in|
121429636|/articles/7948-hurwitz-hyman|Professor of Hebrew and author; born 1770; died 1844. He was a native of Poland, in which country he acquired great proficiency in Biblical and|
132716666|/articles/7949-hurwitz-judah-ben-mordecai-ha-levi|Russian physician and author; born at Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno Nov. 12, 1797. He graduated in medicine from|
131462563|/articles/7952-hurwitz-phinehas-elijah|Hebrew writer; born in Wilna; died in Cracow in 1812. While a youth he went to Buchach, a hamlet in Galicia, where he began his "Sefer ha-Berit,"|
117073563|/articles/7958-huth-georg|German Orientalist and explorer; born Feb. 25, 1867, at Krotoschin, Prussia. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the|
118555049|/articles/7959-hutten-ulrich-von|Poet and satirist; born in the castle of Steckelberg, near Fulda, April 2l, 1488; died on the Isle of Ufnau, Lake Zurich, Aug. 29, 1523. As a|
10239623X|/articles/7972-hyrcanus-john-johanan-i|High priest; prince of the Hasmonean family; born about 175; died 104 (Schürer). He was a wise and just ruler and a skilful warrior. As a young man|
121970736|/articles/7983-ibn-danan-saadia-ben-maimun-ben-moses|Lexicographer, Philosoph, and poet; flourished at Granada in the second half of the fifteenth century. He exercised the function of dayyan at|
118646613|/articles/7985-ibn-ezra-abraham-ben-meir-aben-ezra|First Period: to 1140. Scholar and writer; born 1092-1093; died Jan. 28 (according to Rosin, Reime und Gedichte, p. 82, n. 6, 1167 (see his|
143810987|/articles/7986-ibn-ezra-isaac-abu-sa-d|Spanish poet of the twelfth century; son of Abraham ibn Ezra. He won fame as a poet at an early age, probably while still in his Spanish home.|
12966281X|/articles/7987-ibn-ezra-joseph-ben-isaac|Oriental Rabbiner of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; descendant of the Ibn Ezra family of Spain. Brought up in Salonica, he studied under the|
118641174|/articles/7989-ibn-ezra-moses-ben-jacob-ha-sallah-abu-harun-musa|Spanish Philosoph, linguist, and poet; born at Granada about 1070; (died after 1138; relative of Abraham ibn Ezra and pupil of Isaacibn Ghayyat.|
118688987|/articles/7991-ibn-gabirol-solomon-ben-judah-abu-ayyub-sulaiman-ibn-yahya-ibn-jabirul|Spanish poet, Philosoph, and moralist; born in Malaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia. He is called by Grätz "the Jewish Plato," and by|
104278137|/articles/7998-ibn-janah-abu-al-walid-merwan|Greatest Hebrew philologist of the Middle Ages; born at Cordova between 985 and 990; died at Saragossa in the first half of the eleventh century. He|
128831065|/articles/8000-ibn-killis-ya-kub-ben-yusuf-abu-al-faraj|Vizier to the calif of Egypt, Al-'Aziz Nizar; born at Bagdad 930; died at Cairo 990-991. His parents were Jews; and he himself professed the Jewish|
1053048076|/articles/8001-ibn-latif-isaac-b-abraham|Spanish physician and cabalist; probably born at Toledo; died at Jerusalem, whither he had gone in indigent circumstances, about 1290. He was the|
1053405634|/articles/8002-ibn-malkah-judah-ben-nissim|Spanish Philosoph; flourished either in Spain or in Africa in the middle of the fourteenth century. He was imbued with Neoplatonic ideas, and he|
142234184|/articles/8003-ibn-matkah-judah-ben-solomon-ha-kohen|Spanish Philosoph, astronomer, and mathematician; born at Toledo in 1215. On his mother's side he was the grandson of Ziza ibn Shushan. Although|
105315111X|/articles/8006-ibn-migas-joseph-jehosef-ben-meir-ha-levi|Spanish Rabbiner and head of a school in Lucena; born 1077; died in Lucena 1141. His birthplace was probably Seville, where his father, Meïr ha-Levi|
173134467|/articles/8011-ibn-pulgar-isaac-ben-joseph|Spanish Philosoph, poet, and controversialist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. Where he lived is not known, for though|
104083212|/articles/8017-ibn-shaprut-shafrut|Spanish Philosoph, physician, and polemic; born at Tudela in the middle of the fourteenth century; often confused with the physician Shem-Ṭob ben|
102500495|/articles/8019-ibn-shem-tob-joseph-ben-shemtob|One of the most prolific Judæo-Spanish writers of the fifteenth century; born in Castile; died 1480. He lived in various cities of Spain: Medina del|
142127310|/articles/8024-ibn-shu-aib-joel|Rabbi, preacher, and commentator of the fifteenth century; born in Aragon; lived also at Tudela. He wrote: "'Olat Shabbat," sermons, in the order of|
129777803|/articles/8040-ibn-yahya-joseph-ben-david|Italian exegete and Philosoph; born at Florence 1494; died at Imola 1539. His parents were Spanish exiles who had lived for a time in Florence and|
119219832|/articles/8045-ibrahim-ibn-ya-kub-the-israelite|Jewish merchant-traveler of the tenth century. The little that is known about Ibrahim ibn Ya'ḳub is from his own account of the countries of the|
172907365|/articles/8061-igel-lazar-elias|Austrian Rabbiner; born Feb. 28, 1825, at Lemberg, where his father was a second-hand bookseller; died at Czernowitz March 26, 1892. After studying in|
120731282|/articles/8065-ignatiev-ignatyev-ignatieff-count-nikolai-pavlovich|Fosters Anti-Jewish Agitation. Russian statesman; born 1832. He was one of the prime movers in the reactionary anti-Jewish legislation of the last|
1172052360|/articles/8067-ikriti-foreignchars-v06p559001-jpg-foreignchars-shemariah-b-elijah-of-negropont|Italian Philosoph and Biblical exegete; contemporary of Dante and Immanuel; born probably at Rome about 1275, the descendant of a long line of|
119178575|/articles/8084-imber-naphtali-herz|Austrian Hebrew poet; born at Zloczow, Galicia, in 1856. After the usual Talmudic training he began his wandering life by journeying to Vienna and|
122697421|/articles/8090-immanuel-b-solomon-b-jekuthiel|Italian scholar, satirical poet, and the most interesting figure among the Jews of Italy; born at Rome c. 1270; died probably at Fermo c. 1330. He|
107552024X|/articles/8088-immanuel-ben-jekuthiel-of-benevento|Grammarian and corrector for the press at Mantua; lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was connected with the printing|
118931571|/articles/8089-immanuel-siegmund-solomon-jacob|German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 4, 1792; died at Minden Dec. 28, 1847. Educated at the gymnasium of Altona and later at Hamburg, he|
118555642|/articles/8119-innocent-iii-lothario-conti|Pope from 1198 to 1216; born at Anagni in 1161; elected June 8, 1198; died July 17, 1216. A Roman writer said of him, "Thy words are the words of|
118555677|/articles/8120-innocent-xi-benedetto-odescalchi|Pope from 1676 to 1689; born at Como in 1611; elected Sept. 21, 1676; died Aug. 12, 1689. That the Jews were not excluded from the results of his|
142057142|/articles/8182-isaac-eisak-ben-joshua-ben-abraham-of-prague|Physician and parnas of Prague in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "'Olat Yiẓḥaḳ" a collection of ritual laws arranged after the Arba'|
119184575|/articles/8150-isaac-b-abba-mari|French codifier; born in Provence about 1122; died after 1193 (in Marseilles ?). Isaac's father, a great Rabbinernical authority, who wrote|
1089711638|/articles/8210-isaac-b-reuben-albargeloni-albarceloni|Spanish Talmudist and liturgical poet; born at Barcelona in 1043. He was a judge in the important community of Denia, where he became connected,|
1146491913|/articles/8158-isaac-ben-asher-ha-levi-riba|Tosafist; lived at Speyer in the eleventh century; son-in-law of Eliakim ben Meshullam and pupil of Rashi. His are the earliest known tosafot, and|
1053424779|/articles/8172-isaac-ben-hayyim-of-volozhin|Russian Talmudist; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna; died at Ivenitz, government of Minsk, June 16, 1849. Isaac was a distinguished Talmudist,|
1138222879|/articles/8177-isaac-ben-jacob-ha-laban|Tosafist and liturgical poet; flourished at Prague in the twelfth century; the brother of the traveler Pethahiah of Regensburg. He was among the|
173249353|/articles/8181-isaac-ben-joseph-of-corbeil|French ritualist; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the son-in-law of R. Jehiel ben Joseph of Paris, whose school he|
1053420781|/articles/8185-isaac-ben-judah-ha-levi|French exegete and tosafist; lived at Sens, probably, in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of Ḥayyim of Falaise, whom|
138182108|/articles/8186-isaac-ben-judah-lob|Rabbi at Offenbach in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Be'er Yiẓḥaḳ," a commentary on the Hafṭarot, with the text (1729);|
1037468317|/articles/8199-isaac-ben-melchizedek-of-siponto|Italian Rabbiner and Talmudist; lived about 1110-70; born in Siponto, a seaport of Apulia and an ancient seat of Jewish learning. His father was known|
124069207|/articles/8205-isaac-ben-moses-of-vienna|German halakist, a descendant of a learned family; probably born in Bohemia; lived about 1200-70. He mentions as his teachers two Bohemian scholars,|
1053420773|/articles/8211-isaac-ben-samson-ha-kohen|Bohemian Talmudist; died May 30, 1624, in Prague. He was assistant Rabbiner and magistrate of the community, and was son-in-law of the chief Rabbiner of|
142555762|/articles/8214-isaac-ben-samuel-ha-levi|Polish Rabbiner; born at Vladimir, government of Volhynia, Russia, about 1580; died before 1646. He was the elder brother and teacher of David b.|
133925196|/articles/8217-isaac-ben-samuel-ha-zaken|French tosafist and Biblical commentator; flourished at Ramerupt and Dampierre in the twelfth century. He died, according to Grätz ("Gesch." vi.|
1036143694|/articles/8218-isaac-ben-sheshet-barfat-ribash|Becomes Rabbi. Spanish Talmudic authority; born at Valencia in 1326; died at Algiers in 1408. He settled early in life at Barcelona, where he|
123396778|/articles/8170-isaac-ibn-halfon-abu-ibrahim|Spanish poet of the eleventh century. According to Moses ibn Ezra's treatise on poetry (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 1974, fol. 316), his|
142044695|/articles/8183-isaac-joshua-ben-immanuel-de-lattes|Italian Talmudist and publisher: born at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century: died at Ferrara about 1570. He was the grandson of thewell-known|
138689555|/articles/8192-isaac-leon-ben-eliezer-ibn-zur-sefardi|Rabbi at Ancona in the first half of the sixteenth century. He belonged to a Spanish family which settled in Italy after the expulsion of the Jews|
124810314|/articles/8180-isaac-johann-levita|German professor of Hebrew; born 1515; died at Cologne 1577. At first a Rabbiner at Wetzlar, he was baptized as a Protestant in 1546, but embraced the|
137034601|/articles/8225-isaacs-abram-samuel|American Rabbiner, professor, and editor; born in New York city Aug. 30, 1852. He was educated at New York University (B.A. 1871, M.A. 1873, Ph.D.|
1055492119|/articles/8227-isaacs-isaac-a|Australian statesman and jurist; born at Melbourne, Victoria, Aug. 6, 1855; educated at Melbourne University, and admitted to the Victorian bar in|
100966721|/articles/8243-isaiah-ben-mali-di-trani-the-elder-rid|Prominent Italian Talmudist; born about 1180. He originated in Trani (Conforte, "Ḳore ha-Dorot," p. 15a), an ancient settlement of Jewish|
117210641|/articles/8265-isler-meyer|German philologist; born Dec. 14, 1807, at Hamburg; died there Aug. 19, 1888; studied philology at the universities of Bonn and Berlin (Ph.D. 1830).|
141825944|/articles/15158-zamosz-israel-ben-moses-ha-levi|Polish Talmudist and mathematician; born at Buberki about 1700; died at Brody April 20, 1772. He was appointed one of the lecturers in the yeshibah|
1053384440|/articles/8291-israel-ben-samuel-ashkenazi-of-shklov|Talmudic casuist; born at Shklov about 1770; died at Tiberias May 13, 1839. One of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to|
131789341|/articles/8293-israel-ben-shabbethai-of-kozienice|Hasidic Rabbiner, cabalist, and thaumaturge; born at Kozienice, government of Radom, Russian Poland, about 1745; died in 1815. Israel was successively|
129034363|/articles/8273-israel-bruna-ben-hayyim|German Rabbiner of the fifteenth century. He was at first Rabbiner of Brünn, and after the expulsion of the Jews from that city (1454) he settled at|
118710982|/articles/8279-israel-james|German physician; born at Berlin Feb., 1848; M.D. Berlin, 1870. Settling in the German capital, he became in 1875 assistant surgeon at the|
117659193|/articles/8288-israel-oskar|German physician; born at Stralsund Sept. 6, 1854; educated at the universities of Leipsic, Kiel, and Berlin (M.D. 1877). In 1878 he entered the|
134125967|/articles/8296-israeli-isaac-ben-joseph-the-younger|Spanish astronomer; flourished at Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a pupil of Asher ben Jehiel, at whose request (in 1310)|
118775677|/articles/8297-israeli-isaac-ben-solomon-abu-ya-kub-ishak-ibn-sulaiman-alisra-ili|African physician and Philosoph; born in Egypt before 832; died at Kairwan, Tunis, in 932. These dates are given by most of the Arabic|
104406465X|/articles/8330-israels-abraham-hartog|Dutch medical historian; born at Groningen March 27, 1822; died at Amsterdam. Jan. 16, 1883; educated at the university of his native town (M.D.|
118775685|/articles/8332-israels-joseph|Dutch genre painter; born at Groningen, Holland, June 27, 1824. It was his mother's desire that he should enter the Rabbinernate, but other influences|
1171355637|/articles/8336-issachar-bar-b-tanhum|Russian Rabbiner; born (in Grodno ?) 1779; died at Wilna July 31, 1855. He became one of the "more ẓedeḳ" ("dayyanim") of Wilna in 1819, and held that|
129816051|/articles/8339-isserlein-isserlin-israel-ben-pethahiah-ashkenazi|The foremost Talmudic authority of Germany in the first half of the fifteenth century; born in the last decade of the fourteenth century, probably|
120508419|/articles/8340-isserles-moses-ben-israel-rema|Polish Rabbiner, code annotator, and Philosoph; born at Cracow about 1520; died there May 1, 1572. His father was a rich and prominent Talmudist, and|
115468277|/articles/8374-jablonski-daniel-e|German Christian theologian and Orientalist; born Nov. 26, 1660, in Danzig; died May 25, 1741, in Berlin. After spending some time as a wandering|
130891487|/articles/8391-jacob-ben-asher|German codifier and Biblical commentator; died at Toledo, Spain, before 1340. Very little is known of Jacob's life; and the few glimpses caught here|
1146097522|/articles/8412-jacob-ben-hayyim-ben-isaac-ibn-adonijah|Masorite and printer; born about 1470 at Tunis (hence sometimes called Tunisi); died before 1538. He left his native country in consequence of the|
136586635|/articles/8417-jacob-ben-jacob-moses-of-lissa|German Talmudist; died in Stryj, Galicia, May 25, 1832. He was a great-grandson of Ẓebi Ashkenazi and a pupil of Meshullam Eger. Jacob was ab bet|
103619857X|/articles/8419-jacob-ben-jeremiah-mattithiah-ha-levi|German translator of the seventeenth century. He translated into Judæo-German Abraham Jagel's "Leḳaḥ Ṭob" (Amsterdam, 1675; Wilmersdorf, 1714;|
1053420609|/articles/10100-london-jacob-ben-judah-hazzan|English scholar; born in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When quite young he went to Amsterdam, where he lived for a long time.|
138870845|/articles/8436-jacob-ben-meir-tam|Most prominent of French tosafists; born at Ramerupt, on the Seine, in 1100; died at Troyes June 9, 1171. His mother, Jochebed, was a daughter of|
103649492|/articles/11560-nissim-ben-jacob-ben-nissim-ibn-shahin|African Talmud exegete and moralist; lived during the first half of the eleventh century in Kairwan. He received his early instruction from his|
1089139063|/articles/8453-jacob-ben-reuben-ibn-zur|Talmudist and Rabbiner of Fez; born in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died after 1750. That his reputation as a Talmudist stood high is|
1089815255|/articles/8457-jacob-ben-sheshet-gerondi|Spanish cabalist of Gerona (whence his surname "Gerondi") in the thirteenth century. He was the author of "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim," a cabalistic essay|
173225225|/articles/8465-jacob-ben-wolf-kranz-of-dubno-dubner-maggid|Russian preacher; born at Zietil, government of Wilna, about 1740; died at Zamosc Dec. 18, 1804. At the age of eighteen he went to Meseritz|
1021430749|/articles/8432-jacob-ha-levi-he-hasid|French Rabbiner and cabalist; lived in the thirteenth century, at Marvège. It was said that by prayers and invocations he was able to obtain from|
130675881|/articles/8422-jacob-joshua-ben-zebi-hirsch|Polish Rabbiner; born at Cracow in 1680; died at Offenbach Jan. 16, 1756. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Joshua of Cracow, the author of|
119554151|/articles/8394-jacob-benno|German Rabbiner and Biblical scholar; born at Breslau Sept. 8, 1862; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the theological seminary of his|
136253377|/articles/8414-jacob-israel|German Bankier and philanthropist; born April 14, 1729, at Halberstadt; died Nov. 25, 1803. He was widely respected for his philanthropy, which he|
136250815|/articles/8426-jacob-julius|German landscape- and portrait-painter; born in Berlin April 25, 1811; died there Oct. 20, 1882. He studied under Wach at the Düsseldorf|
119411172|/articles/8468-jacobi-abraham|American physician; born at Hartum, near Minden, Westphalia, May 6, 1830; educated at the universities of Greifswald, Göttingen, and Bonn (M.D.,|
104261714|/articles/8469-jacobi-heinrich-otto|German philologist; born at Tütz, West Prussia, 1815; died in Berlin 1864. He studied at Berlin University, and received the honorary degree of|
118775766|/articles/8470-jacobi-karl-gustav-jakob|German mathematician; born Dec. 10, 1804, at Potsdam; died at Berlin Feb. 18, 1851; brother of Moritz Hermaun Jacobi. He studied mathematics,|
100501133|/articles/8471-jacobi-moritz-hermann|German physicist; born Sept. 21, 1801, at Potsdam; died March 10, 1874, at St. Petersburg. He was established as architect at Königsberg when, in|
138974594|/articles/8472-jacobi-samuel|Danish physician; born in Yaroslav, Galicia, 1764; died in Copenhagen 1811. He studied the Talmud for some years, but later devoted himself to|
11937479X|/articles/8475-jacobs-joseph|Critic, folklorist, historian, statistician, communal worker; born Aug. 29, 1854, at Sydney, N. S. W.; educated at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney and|
136252508|/articles/8478-jacobsohn-paul|German physician and hygienist; born in Berlin Sept. 30, 1868; educated at the gymnasium in Berlin and the universities of Berlin and Freiburg (M.D.|
117047724|/articles/8480-jacobson-eduard|German dramatist; born at Gross Strelitz, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1833 (M.D. Berlin, 1859); died in Berlin Jan. 29, 1897. He established himself as a|
11761047X|/articles/8481-jacobson-heinrich|German physician; born Oct. 27, 1826, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died Dec. 10, 1890, at Berlin; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and|
117047767|/articles/8482-jacobson-heinrich-friedrich|German jurist and writer on ecclesiastical law; born at Marienwerder June 8, 1804; died at Königsberg March 19, 1868. He studied in the latter city,|
11704783X|/articles/8483-jacobson-israel|German philanthropist and reformer; born in Halberstadt Oct. 17, 1768; died in Hanover Sept. 14, 1828. Originally his father's name was Jacob. His|
117047899|/articles/8484-jacobson-ludwig-lewin|Danish surgeon; born in Copenhagen Jan. 10, 1783; died there Aug. 29, 1843. He received his early education at the German Lyceum in Stockholm,|
117610518|/articles/8486-jacobsthal-johann-eduard|German architect; born at Stargard, Pomerania, Sept. 17, 1839. He studied at the architectural academy in Berlin, and, after long travels through|
118556436|/articles/8487-jacoby-johann|German physician and statesman; born at Königsberg, Prussia, May 1, 1805; died there March 6, 1877. The son of a well-to-do merchant, after|
117610550|/articles/8488-jacoby-louis|German engraver; born June 7, 1828, at Havelberg, Brandenburg, Germany; pupil of the engraver Mandel of Berlin, in which city he settled. The year|
117084506|/articles/8490-jacques-heinrich|Austrian deputy; born in Vienna Feb. 24, 1831; shot himself Jan. 25, 1894. He studied philosophy and history at Heidelberg, and afterward|
117610674|/articles/8492-jadassohn-josef|German physician; born at Liegnitz Sept. 10, 1863. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Breslau, Heidelberg, and Leipsic (M.D. Breslau,|
119258021|/articles/8493-jadassohn-solomon|German composer and music teacher; born at Breslau, Prussia, Aug. 13, 1831; pupil at the Breslau gymnasium and of Hesse (pianoforte), Lüstner|
118898108|/articles/8499-jagel-abraham-ben-hananiah-dei-galicchi|Rescued from Bandits. Italian catechist, Philosoph, and cabalist; born at Monselice; lived successively at Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara, and Sassuolo,|
1089703333|/articles/8520-jare|Name of an ancient Italian family of scholars dating back to the fifteenth century.Giuseppe Jaré: Italian Rabbiner; born at Mantua, Dec., 1840. He was|
116653981|/articles/8523-jarno-josef-josef-cohen|Austrian actor; born at Budapest Aug. 24, 1866. He was educated for a mercantile career, but went on the stage when nineteen years of age. His début|
11708560X|/articles/8530-jastrow-ignaz|German economist and statistician; born Sept. 13, 1856, at Nakel. Having studied at Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D. 1878), he became in 1885|
1055123873|/articles/8531-jastrow-joseph|American psychologist; born Jan. 30, 1863, at Warsaw, Poland. He accompanied his father, Dr. Marcus Jastrow, to the United States in 1866, and was|
102745013|/articles/8532-jastrow-marcus-mordecai|American Rabbiner and scholar; born June 5, 1829, at Rogasen, Prussian Poland; died Oct. 13, 1903, at Germantown, Pa.; fifth child of Abraham Jastrow|
117085626|/articles/8533-jastrow-morris-jr|American Orientalist and librarian; son of Marcus Jastrow; born Aug. 13, 1861, at Warsaw, Poland. His family removed to the United States in 1866,|
101291426|/articles/8535-javal-emile|French physician and deputy; born May 5, 1839, at Paris; son of Leopold Javal. Emile studied both medicine and mineralogy (M.D. 1868); he devoted|
1084241684|/articles/8547-jedidiah-ben-moses-of-recanati|Italian scholar; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. At the request of Immanuel di Fano, Jedidiah translated, in 1580, the|
142652172|/articles/8555-jehiel-michael-ben-judah-lob|Rabbi of Berlin; died March, 1728. After filling the office of Rabbiner in several Polish communities he removed about 1701 to Berlin, where, with his|
102701172|/articles/8556-jehiel-michael-ben-uzziel-of-glogau|Rabbinical author; died in Vienna 1730. He was well versed in the Midrashim, and was the author of "Nezer ha-Ḳodesh," an extensive commentary on|
1067836519|/articles/8572-jehudi-b-sheshet|Hebrew philologist of the tenth century; pupil of Dunash b. Labraṭ. He is known exclusively through the polemic in which he defended his teacher|
113667213|/articles/8574-jeiteles-alois|Austrian physician and poet; born June 20, 1794 (or 1795), at Brünn, Moravia; died there April 16, 1858. He studied philosophy at Brünn and Prague,|
1053446616|/articles/8600-jeroham-ben-meshullam|French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. According to Gross, he lived in Languedoc, but on the banishment of the|
117615749|/articles/8612-jesi-samuel|Italian engraver; born at Milan 1789; died at Florence Jan. 17, 1853. He was a pupil of G. Longhi at the Academy of Milan. His first work (1821) was|
118557513|/articles/8616-jesus-of-nazareth|In History: Founder of Christianity; born at Nazareth about 2 B.C. (according to Luke iii. 23); executed at Jerusalem 14th of Nisan, 3789 (March or|
118776223|/articles/8687-joachim-joseph|Hungarian violinist; born at Kittsee, near Presburg, Hungary, June 28, 1831. He began to study the violin when he was five years old, and was placed|
117653519|/articles/8689-joachimsthal-ferdinand-j|German mathematician; born May 9, 1818, at Goldberg, Silesia; died April 5, 1861, at Breslau. In the year of his graduation (Ph.D. Berlin, 1842) he|
117140546;17217547X|/articles/8690-joachimsthal-georg|German physician; born at Stargard, Pomerania, May 8, 1863. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin in 1887 and established|
117161403|/articles/8700-jochelson-waldemar|Russian explorer and ethnologist; born in Wilna Jan. 1, 1856. He graduated from the gymnasium of Wilna, and became identified with the revolutionary|
131560808|/articles/8704-joel-david|German Rabbiner and author; born Jan. 12, 1815, at Inowrazlaw, Posen; died Sept. 7, 1882, at Breslau; brother of Manuel Joël. His father, who went in|
117148199|/articles/8707-joel-karl|German philosophical writer; born March 27, 1864, at Hirschberg, Silesia; son of Rabbi H. Joël of that city and nephew of David and Manuel Joël.|
101495196|/articles/8709-joel-manuel|German Rabbiner; born Oct. 19, 1826, at Birnbaum, province of Posen; died at Breslau Nov. 3, 1890; son of Rabbi Heimann Joël of Birnbaum. In 1849 he|
118592114|/articles/8727-johannes-pauli|German humorist and convert to Christianity; born about 1455; died at Thann 1530. He became a distinguished preacher of the Franciscan Order at|
117162485|/articles/8730-johlson-joseph-asher-ben-joseph-fulda|German Bible translator and writer on educational topics; born in 1777 at Fulda; died atFrankfort-on-the-Main June 13, 1851. He was sometimes called|
101238606|/articles/8748-jolowicz-heymann-hayyim-ben-abraham|German preacher and author; born Aug. 23, 1816, at Santomischl, province of Posen; died at Königsberg, Prussia, Jan. 31, 1875. He attended the|
117175323|/articles/8757-jonas-emil|German writer and publicist; born July 14, 1824, at Schwerin, Mecklenburg; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and at Heidelberg. In 1845|
11717534X|/articles/8758-jonas-emile|French musician; born at Paris March 5, 1827. He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, where he took the first prize in harmony in 1847 and the Grand|
1089712049|/articles/8789-jose-ben-halafta|Palestinian tanna of the fourth generation (2d cent.). Of his life only the following few details are known: He was born at Sepphoris; but his|
117183377|/articles/8801-joseffy-rafael|American piano virtuoso; born in 1852 in Hunfalu, Hungary. In the following year the family moved to Miskolcz, where he spent his childhood and|
118713094|/articles/8802-josel-joselmann-joselin-of-rosheim-joseph-ben-gershon-loanz|The great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the emperors Maximilian I. and Charles V.; born about 1480; died March,|
139156895|/articles/8868-joseph-josel-ben-moses-frankfurt|Dayyan at Fürth in the first half of the eighteenth century; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; author of "Torat Yosef," masorah on the Pentateuch, with|
124305636|/articles/8867-joseph-joslein-ben-moses|Bavarian Talmudist; born at Höchstädt about 1420; died after 1488. A few details of Joseph's life are known through his "Leḳeṭ Yosher," of which|
1146680384|/articles/8841-joseph-ben-isaac-bekor-shor-of-orleans|French tosafist, exegete, and poet; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Caro, and Samuel ben Meïr|
118555243|/articles/8849-joseph-ben-jacob-ibn-zaddik|Spanish Rabbiner, poet, and Philosoph; died at Cordova 1149. A Talmudist of high repute, he was appointed in 1138 dayyan at Cordova, which office he|
132563673|/articles/8848-joseph-ben-jacob-of-pinczow|Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil of Ẓebi Hirsch, Rabbiner in Lublin. In 1687 he was Rabbiner at Kosowi, Russia, whence he|
122750144|/articles/8852-joseph-ben-joshua-ben-meir-ha-kohen|Historian and physician of the sixteenth century; born at Avignon Dec. 20, 1496; died at Genoa in 1575 or shortly after. His family originally lived|
143684973;173351999|/articles/8853-joseph-ben-judah-ibn-aknin|Physician and Poet. Disciple of Moses Maimonides; born about 1160; died 1226. For the first twenty-five years of his life he lived with his father,|
143606948|/articles/8854-joseph-ben-kalonymus-ha-nakdan|German Masorite and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a long acrostic poem on the|
1012738434|/articles/8863-joseph-ben-mordecai-gershon-ha-kohen|Polish Talmudist; born at Cracow 1510; died 1591. He began his studies in the Talmud at an early age, and became the head of a yeshibah founded for|
124072135;173247776|/articles/8874-joseph-ben-nathan-official|Controversies with Officials. French controversialist; lived, probably at Sens, in the thirteenth century. He was a descendant of Todros Nasi of|
1089706669|/articles/8886-joseph-ben-samuel-ibn-rey|Italian Rabbiner; died prematurely in Venice April 2, 1608. His epitaph (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." iv. 1213) leaves it to be supposed that his surname was an|
137453280|/articles/8889-joseph-ben-solomon-joseph-darshan-of-posen|German preacher; born at Posen in 1601; died there in 1696. When a youth Joseph studied at Byelaya Tzerkov, Russia, where he seems to have settled,|
128469730;118555243|/articles/8899-joseph-ben-zaddik|Rabbi in Arevalo, Spain, during the fifteenth century; author of a treatise entitled "Zeker Ẓaddiḳ," on ritual matters, in fifty chapters, still in|
118558404|/articles/8805-joseph-ii|German emperor; born March 13, 1741; died Feb. 20, 1790, at Vienna. As German emperor his sovereignty was one in name only, but as ruler of Austria|
117198579|/articles/8827-joseph-david|German architect; born July 4, 1863, at Königsberg, eastern Prussia; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at Gnesen, at the Technische|
1053051506|/articles/8845-joseph-jacob|Russian-American Rabbiner; born at Krozhe, government of Kovno, Russia, 1848; died at New York July 28, 1902. He studied in the yeshibah at Volozhin|
118640003|/articles/8905-josephus-flavius|General and historian; born in 37 or 38; died after 100. He boasts of belonging to the Hasmonean race on his mother's side ("Vita," § 1). His|
140935312|/articles/8920-joshua-falk-lisser-ben-judah-lob|German Talmudist; born in Lissa, Posen. He was schoolmaster at Hamburg toward the end of the seventeenth century, and was the author of "'Emeḳ|
124843808|/articles/8913-joshua-b-hananiah|A leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma'as. Sh. v. 9), and served in the|
1059151227|/articles/8917-joshua-joseph-ben-david-halevi|Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He composed elegies ("ḳinot") on the deaths of Samuel Aboab and Moses Zacuto|
118913565|/articles/8931-jost-isaac-marcus|German historian; born at Bernburg Feb. 22, 1793; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Nov. 22, 1860. Jost was one of a poor family of eleven, most of whom|
119046776|/articles/8939-juan-rodrigo-de-castel-branco|Portuguese physician; born at Castel-Branco, Portugal, in 1511;died at Salonica in 1568. He was a descendant of a Marano family called Ḥabib (=|
1053446748|/articles/9000-judah-b-kalonymus-b-meir|German historian and Talmudic lexicographer; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century. Judah came from one of the most celebrated Jewish|
122607414|/articles/8973-judah-ben-asher|German Talmudist; later, Rabbiner of Toledo, Spain; born in western Germany June 30, 1270; died at Toledo July 4, 1349; brother of Jacob ben Asher|
120056712|/articles/8975-judah-ben-barzillai|Spanish Talmudist of the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century. Almost nothing is known of his life. He came of a very|
1089701624|/articles/8994-judah-ben-ilai|One of the most important tannaim of the second century; born at Usha, a city of Galilee (Cant. R. ii.). His teachers were his father (himself a|
1041801769|/articles/8995-judah-ben-isaac|French tosafist; born in Paris 1166; died there 1224 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29). According to Gross he was probably a descendant of Rashi,|
119012154|/articles/9020-judah-ben-samuel-he-hasid-of-regensburg|Ethical writer and mystic; died Feb. 22, 1217 ("Oẓar Ṭob," 1878, p. 045; Berliner, "Magazin," 1876, p. 220; "Kerem Ḥemed," vii. 71 [erroneously|
118824767|/articles/9005-judah-ha-levi|His Youth. Spanish Philosoph and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in the Orient|
119211440|/articles/8963-judah-i|Patriarch; redactor of the Mishnah; born about 135; died about 220. He was the first of Hillel's successors to whose name the title of hereditary|
1064864465|/articles/9001-judah-ibn-kuraish|Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer; born at Tahort, northern Africa; flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries. In his grammatical work he|
137355858|/articles/9004-judah-leone-b-isaac-sommo|Italian writer and dramatic critic and manager; died after 1591. A scion of the Portaleone family of Mantua, he lived first at Ferrara—where he was|
1089708076|/articles/9008-judah-lob-ben-simeon|Rabbi and physician; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main about the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Mayence in 1714. He studied medicine and|
119237865|/articles/9009-judah-low-lob-liwa-ben-bezaleel|Austrian Talmudist and mathematician; born aboutthe second decade of the sixteenth century in Posen, whither his family had gone from Worms toward|
119525577|/articles/9079-julian-of-toledo|Primate of Spain; born in Toledo (where he was also baptized); died in 690. He was the first of the long list of ecclesiastical princes who were of|
118558684|/articles/9078-julian-the-apostate-flavius-claudius-julianus|Roman emperor; born Nov. 17, 331; reigned from Nov., 361, till June, 363.The recognition of Christianity as the religion of the state by Constantine|
118955314|/articles/9083-julius-iii-giovanni-maria-del-monte|Two hundred and twenty-eighth pope; born at Rome 1487; elected pope Feb. 8, 1550;died March 22, 1555. Personally he was favorably inclined toward|
118907441|/articles/9086-julius-nikolaus-heinrich|German physician and prison-reformer; born at Altona, Germany, Oct. 3, 1783; died at Hamburg Aug. 20, 1862. He received his early education at|
1053080565|/articles/9099-justus-dr|Convert to Christianity and writer against the Jews; born at Costinasti, Rumania, about 1860. Until the age of twenty he lived at Buczacz, a small|
142237531|/articles/9103-juwel-moses-mordecai|Galician scholar; lived at Brody in the first half of the nineteenth century. He translated from the German into Hebrew Hufeland's "Macrobiotik," or|
116015675|/articles/9111-kadelburg-gustav|German actor and dramatist; born Jan. 26, 1851. He made his first appearance at Leipsic in 1869, and two years later played at the Wallnertheater,|
10259466X|/articles/9114-kaempf-saul-isaac|Austrian Rabbiner and Orientalist; born at Lissa, Posen, May 6, 1818; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1892. He received his first lessons from his father,|
126504059|/articles/9118-kahan-abraham|Russian Hebrew author; born Dec. 19, 1874, at Skomorochy, near Jitomir. He has written or edited the following works: an anthology of S. D.|
140443541|/articles/9127-kahn-joseph|German Rabbiner and preacher; born at Wawern, a small village near Treves, Sept. 2, 1809; died at Amsterdam July 10, 1875. He lost his father, the|
116024097|/articles/9129-kahn-robert|German composer and pianist; born at Mannheim July 21, 1865; a pupil of Ernst Frank and Vincenz Lachner (Mannheim), Friedrich Kiel (Berlin), and|
133958809|/articles/9130-kahn-zadoc|Chief Rabbiner of France; born Feb. 18, 1839, at Mommenheim, Alsace. In 1856 he entered the Rabbinernical school of Metz, finishing his theological|
131790021|/articles/9131-kaidanover-aaron-samuel-ben-israel|Polish Rabbiner; born at Wilna 1614; died at Cracow Dec. 1, 1676 (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography). Among his teachers|
172702305|/articles/9132-kaidanover-zebi-hirsch|Native of Wilna; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main March 23, 1712; son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Kaidanover; pupil of Joseph ben Judah Jeidel, Rabbiner of|
116031883|/articles/9150-kalisch-david|German playwright and humorist; born at Breslau Feb. 23, 1820; died at Berlin Aug. 21, 1872. His infancy and early childhood were spent in a home of|
1042668965|/articles/9151-kalisch-isidor|American Rabbiner and author; born Nov. 15, 1816, at Krotoschin; died May 11, 1886, at Newark, N. J.; studied theology, philosophy, and philology at|
116031921|/articles/9152-kalisch-ludwig|German novelist; born Sept. 7, 1814, at Lissa; died March 3, 1882, at Paris. When only twelve years of age he left his home and became successively|
1113218665|/articles/9153-kalisch-marcus-m|Hebraist and Bible commentator; born at Treptow, Pomerania, May 16, 1828; died in Derbyshire, England, Aug. 24, 1885. He was educated at Berlin|
11603193X|/articles/9155-kalisch-paul|German singer; born at Berlin Nov. 6, 1855; son of David Kalisch, founder of the "Kladderadatsch." Kalisch was destined for an architeet's career,|
133168131|/articles/9157-kalischer-judah-lob-ben-moses|German Talmudist; died April 18, 1822, at Lissa, where he was dayyan. Kalischer was the head of the yeshibah of Lissa for more than fifty years,|
126683824|/articles/9158-kalischer-solomon|German composer, pianist, and physicist; born Oct. 8, 1845, at Thorn, West Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and the|
128687592|/articles/9159-kalischer-zebi-hirsch|German Rabbiner and colonizer; born March 24, 1795, at Lissa, Posen; died Oct. 16, 1874, at Thorn, on the Vistula. Destined for the Rabbinernate, he|
1171011954|/articles/9160-kalisker-abraham-ben-alexander-ha-kohen|Rabbi of Kaliska, Prussia, in the eighteenth century. Kalisker studied successively under Elijah Wilna and Bär of Meseritz, becoming a fervent|
116032103|/articles/9162-kalkar-christian-andreas-herman|Danish convert to Protestantism; born Nov. 27, 1802, at Stockholm; died at Gladsaxe, near Copenhagen, Feb. 3, 1886. He received his early education|
1068189819|/articles/9164-kallir-eleazar-b-eleazar|Hungarian Rabbiner and author; died at Kolin, Bohemia, in 1805; grandson of Meïr Eisenstadt, author of "Panim Me'irot." Kallir, who was Rabbiner of|
102415056|/articles/9173-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus-ben-meir|Provençal Philosoph and translator; born at Arles 1286; died after 1328. He was a descendant of a prominent Provençal family, several members of|
124505392|/articles/9184-kaminka-armand|Russian scholar; born at Berdychev May 5, 1866; educated at the Rabbinernical seminary of Israel Hildesheimer, Berlin (1880), at Hamburg, Riga, Berlin|
105304741X|/articles/9188-kanah-abigdor|A cabalistic writer of the fifteenth century, who lived either in Spain (Graetz) or in Italy or in Greece (Jellinek). In the introduction to his|
116195215|/articles/9189-kanitz-august|Hungarian botanist; born April 25, 1843, at Lugos; died July 12, 1896, at Klausenburg. While a student at the University of Vienna he wrote|
116039051|/articles/9190-kanitz-felix-philipp|Hungarian archeologist and ethnographer; born at Budapest Aug. 2, 1829; died at Vienna Jan. 8, 1904. When only seventeen years of age he entered the|
137712642|/articles/9192-kann-moses|German Rabbiner; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died there Dec. 1, 1762; son of Löb Kann. He was chief Rabbiner of Hesse-Darmstadt and head of the|
117568538|/articles/9203-kaposi-kohn-moriz|Austrian dermatologist; born at Kaposvár, Hungary, Oct. 23, 1837; died March 6, 1902. After graduating (M.D., 1861) from the university at Vienna,|
116053755|/articles/9205-kapper-siegfried|Austrian poet and physician; born at Smichow near Prague, March 21, 1821; died at Pisa June 7, 1879; educated at the gymnasium and University of|
1042288259|/articles/9206-kara-abigdor-ben-isaac|Bohemian cabalist and liturgical poet; died at Prague April 10, 1439. He lived for a time at Ratisbon, but settled permanently at Prague after 1409.|
118558374|/articles/9210-kara-simeon|French Rabbiner; lived in Mans in the eleventh century; brother of Menahem ben Ḥelbo and father of Joseph Ḳara. For the meaning of his surname see|
1012978648|/articles/9213-kareis-josef|Austrian electrician and deputy; born at Semic, Bohemia, Feb. 14, 1837; studied at the technical institute in Prague. From 1858 till 1896 he was in|
101915022X|/articles/9217-kargau-mendel|German Talmudist; born 1772 at Prostibor, Bohemia; died 1842 at Fürth. He was a disciple of Ezekiel Landau in Prague and of Phinehas Horwitz in|
14159649X|/articles/9223-karman-moritz|Hungarian educator; born Dec. 25, 1843, at Szegedin. He was brought up under the influence of Leopold Löw. While preparing for the Rabbinernical career|
116060433|/articles/9229-karpeles-gustav|Historian of literature; editor; son of Elijah Karpeles; born Nov. 11, 1848, at Eiwanowitz, Moravia; studied at the University of Breslau, where he|
116119675|/articles/9233-kassowitz-max|Austrian physician; born at Presburg, Hungary, Aug. 14, 1842; M.D., Vienna, 1863. For many years assistant to L. Politzer in Vienna, he became his|
116067217|/articles/9234-katscher-bertha|Hungarian writer; born at Treutschin, Hungary, June 12, 1860. She was educated by her aunt, by whom she was taken to Herzegovina, where in 1881 she|
1055390502|/articles/9236-katz-albert|Rabbi and author; born July 17, 1858, at Lodz (Russian Poland). He studied at the yeshibot of Lublin and Wilna and then (1881) went to Berlin, where|
117495727|/articles/9237-katz-ludwig|German otologist and laryngologist; born at Loslau Jan. 1, 1848; graduated (M.D.) from Berlin University in 1872. He began to practise as a|
127706682|/articles/9239-katzenelson-judah-lob-b-israel|Russian physician; born in Bobruisk 1848. He studied in the Rabbinernical school of Jitomir and in the Imperial Medico-Surgical Academy of St.|
139934472|/articles/9241-kaufman-alexander-arkadyevich|Russian political economist; born 1864. After graduating in law from the University of St. Petersburg, he was commissioned (1887-90) by the minister|
132693216|/articles/9243-kaufman-illarion-ignatyevich|Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1847. He graduated from the University of Kharkof, and entered the government service in 1870.Kaufman's|
119249197|/articles/9244-kaufmann-david|His Life. Austrian scholar; born at Kojetein, Moravia, June 7, 1852; died at Karlsbad, Bohemia, July 6, 1899. He was educated at Kojetein; and from|
119333422|/articles/9245-kaufmann-isidor|Hungarian painter; born March 22, 1853, at Arad. He was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfil his wish to become a painter|
1089687842|/articles/9246-kaufmann-moses-jekuthiel|Polish Talmudist; born at Krotoschin about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a son-in-law of Abraham Abele Gombiner, and was Rabbiner at|
116090219|/articles/9251-kayser-paul|German jurist and diplomat; born at Oels, Silesia, Aug. 9, 1845; died atLeipsic Feb. 13, 1898. He was admitted to the bar in 1872; became city judge|
116141115|/articles/9252-kayserling-meyer|German Rabbiner and historian; born in Hanover June 17, 1829; died at Budapest, April 21, 1905; educated at Halberstadt, Nikolsburg (Moravia), Prague,|
1089699956|/articles/9254-kayyara-simeon|Babylonian halakist of the first half of the ninth century. The early identification of his surname with "Ḳahirah," the Arabic name of Cairo|
118776983|/articles/9257-kean-edmund|English actor; born in London Nov. 4 (?), 1787; died at Richmond, near London, May 15, 1833. He was the natural son of Aaron Kean, a Jew (Stirling,|
116126264|/articles/9268-kellner-leon|Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow 1859. He studied Bible and Talmud up to the age of eighteen, then academic subjects at the Jewish Theological|
116127473|/articles/9271-kempner-friederike|German poet; born at Opatow, Posen, June 25, 1836; died at Friederikenhof Feb. 23, 1904. She early developed aninterest in general humanitarian|
116127643|/articles/9273-kempner-max|German author; born at Breslau March 5, 1863. He began his literary career when twenty-five, with a volume of poems, "Buch der Liebe," published in|
101530870|/articles/9274-kempner-stanislaw-alexander|Polish economist and publicist; born in 1857 at Kalisz, Poland; studied law in the University of Warsaw, and was graduated thence in 1882. While at|
139982809|/articles/9280-kennicott-benjamin|English Christian Hebraist; born at Totness, England, April 4, 1718; died at Oxford Aug. 18, 1783. He was, at first, master of the "Blue Coat," or|
1079220623|/articles/9295-keyser-ephraim|American sculptor; born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1850; educated at the City College of Baltimore and at the art academies of Munich (where he won|
130285692|/articles/9304-kiamil-pasha|Turkish official; born at Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1832. Educated on that island and in Egypt, he at the age of seventeen entered the service of the|
1066339686|/articles/9338-kirchheim-raphael|German scholar; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there Sept. 6, 1889. For some time he was shoḥeṭ in the Orthodox congregation of Samson|
118771582|/articles/9344-kirkisani-abu-yusuf-ya-kub-al|Karaite dogmatist and exegete; flourished in the first half of the tenth century; a native of Circassia (whence the name of Ḳirḳisani). He seems to|
130828750|/articles/9347-kirstein-moritz|German physician; born at Filehne 1830; died in Berlin July 12, 1896. He studied at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, in Berlin, and later at the|
136116825|/articles/9353-kiss-joseph|Hungarian poet; born Nov. 8, 1843, at Mezöcsat. Being obliged by the death of his mother and financial ruin of his father to give up his college|
116196130|/articles/9360-klaar-alfred|Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 7, 1848; studied law and, later, German philology at the universities of Vienna and Prague (Ph.D. 1870). In|
116196173|/articles/9361-klaczko-julian-judah|French publicist; born in Wilna, Russia, Nov. 6, 1825. His father belonged to one of the best Jewish families of Wilna, and instructed his son in|
116197536|/articles/9363-klapp-michael|Austrian journalist and author; born in Prague 1834; died Feb. 25, 1888. He removed in 1855 to Vienna, where he devoted himself to journalism. In|
124132820|/articles/9368-klausner-joseph|Russian Hebrew writer; born at Olkeniki, government of Wilna, Aug. 14, 1874. In 1885 he went to Odessa and became a pupil in the yeshibah there,|
116210419|/articles/9369-kleeberg-clotilde|Pianist; born at Paris June 27, 1866, of German parents. She studied with Mmes. Retz and Massart at the Conservatoire, where, at the age of eleven,|
189558903|/articles/9370-kleeberg-minna-cohen|German-American poetess; born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, July 21, 1841; died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31, 1878. Her father, Marcus Cohen, a|
1050554485|/articles/9372-klein-charles|English dramatist; born at London Jan. 7, 1867; educated at the North London Collegiate School. Klein is the author of "A Mile a Minute" (produced|
11856286X|/articles/9373-klein-felix|German mathematician; born at Düsseldorf April 24, 1849; educated at the University of Bonn, where he became assistant in the institution of physics|
116228040;138475008|/articles/9375-klein-hugo|Hungarian writer; born at Szegedin July 21, 1853; educated at the University of Budapest. He was for several years editor of the "Ungarische Lloyd,"|
116212330|/articles/9378-klein-julius-leopold|Hungarian poet and writer; convert to Christianity; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, 1810; died at Berlin Aug. 2, 1876; educated at the gymnasium at|
11918690X|/articles/9379-klein-max|Hungarian sculptor; born Jan. 7, 1847, at Göncz; son of a poor country school-teacher. He was apprenticed first to a grocer at Kaschau, and then to|
117523313|/articles/9382-klein-solomon|Austrian oculist; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, Aug. 12, 1845; M.D., Vienna, 1870. Since his graduation he has practised in the Austrian capital. In|
1053260970|/articles/9383-klein-solomon|French Rabbiner; born at Bischheim, Alsace, Oct. 14, 1814; died at Colmar, Alsace, Nov. 10, 1867. He was successively district Rabbiner at Bischheim|
116212721|/articles/9385-klein-wilhelm|Austrian archeologist; born Nov. 28, 1850, at Karánsebes, Hungary. He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy at Vienna and Prague. The|
116222298|/articles/9386-klemperer-georg|German physician; born at Landsberg-on-the-Warthe May 10, 1865; son of Wilhelm Klemperer; studied at the universities of Breslau, Halle, and Berlin|
13759383X|/articles/9387-klemperer-guttmann|Austrian Rabbiner; born 1815 at Prague; died at Tabor, Bohemia, Jan. 20, 1882. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller. He|
1020661259|/articles/9388-klemperer-wilhelm|German Rabbiner; born March 30, 1839, at Prague; son of Guttmann Klemperer. After attending the gymnasium of his native city, he studied (1856-1863) at|
11622732X|/articles/9390-kley-israel|German preacher, educator, and writer; born at Bernstadt, Silesia, June 10, 1789; died at Hamburg Oct. 4, 1867. He attended the Wilhelm school at|
1016440316|/articles/9391-kley-wilhelm|German economist and educator; born at Steinbach, district of Meiningen, Germany, June 25, 1869. He taught for several years at various schools, and|
1050481380|/articles/9393-klotz-louis-lucien|French journalist and deputy; born in Paris Jan. 11, 1868; of Alsatian descent. After his education was finished, he was enrolled as advocate at the|
136826172|/articles/9394-kluger-solomon-ben-judah-aaron|Chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia; born at Komarow, Russian Poland, in 1783; died at Brody June 9, 1869. He was successively Rabbiner at Rawa|
119372800|/articles/9400-kober-gustav|Austrian actor; born at Vienna April 21, 1849. He was trained for the stage by Emilie Dorr in that city and made his début at the Elysiumtheater,|
117527742|/articles/9401-kobner-heinrich|German physician; born at Breslau Dec. 2, 1838. He studied medicine at Berlin and Breslau (M.D. 1859), taking post-graduate courses at Vienna and|
116280913|/articles/9407-kocher-hermann-friedrich|German Christian Hebraist; born at Osnabrück in 1747; died April 2, 1792. He was the author of "Specimen Observationum Philologicarum in I Sam. ii."|
121468380|/articles/9410-koenen-hendrik-jacob|Dutch historian of the Jews; born at Amsterdam Jan. 11, 1809; died at Buitenrust, near Haarlem, Oct. 13, 1874. He was educated for the bar, and|
118963775|/articles/9419-kohler-kaufmann|Rabbi and theologian; born in Fürth, Bavaria, May 10, 1843; a descendant of a family of Rabbiners. He received his Rabbinernical training at Hassfurt,|
103856428X|/articles/9420-kohler-max-j|American lawyer; born at Detroit, Mich., May 22, 1871; son of Kaufmann Kohler; educated at the College of the City of New York (B.S. 1890) and at|
143660462|/articles/9422-kohn-kahana-david|Russian archeologist and Hebrew writer; born at Odessa in 1838. He received a Rabbinernic education; but at the age of fourteen he took up the study of|
132706644|/articles/9421-kohn-abraham|Austrian Rabbiner; born Jan. 1, 1807, at Zaluzan, Bohemia; died at Lemberg, Galicia, Sept. 7, 1848. In 1828 he entered theUniversity of Prague, where|
131829297|/articles/9427-kohn-maier|azzan in Munich, Bavaria; born toward the close of the eighteenth century. He was the predecessor of Solomon Naumbourg, afterward chief cantor of|
137101554|/articles/9429-kohn-samuel|Hungarian Rabbiner and author; born at Baja, Hungary, Sept. 21, 1841; grandson of the Rabbiner of that place, Götz Schwerin Kohn; educated at the|
116308710|/articles/9431-kohn-solomon|Austrian ghetto poet; born March 8, 1825, at Prague. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the university in that city (1844-46), and then|
116285966|/articles/9433-kohne-karl|German jurist and economist; born at Danzig March 21, 1863. Since 1902 he has been privat-docent in commercial and technical law at the technical|
1070222798|/articles/9434-kohner-moritz|Founder of the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund; born at Neuern, Bohemia, April 4, 1818; died March 21, 1877. Destined for a mercantile career, he|
116309105|/articles/9435-kohut-adolph|German writer; born Nov. 10, 1848, at Mindszent, Hungary; brother of Alexander Kohut. For three years he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in|
137101597|/articles/9436-kohut-alexander|Rabbi and Orientalist; born April 22, 1842, at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died May 25, 1894, in New York. He belonged to a family of Rabbiners, the most|
139441956|/articles/9446-kolisch-baron-ignaz-von|Hungarian merchant, journalist, and chess-master; born at Presburg April 6, 1837; died at Vienna April 30, 1889. Both in business and as a|
13413009X|/articles/9447-kolisch-rudolf|Austrian physician; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Dec. 10, 1867; studied medicine at Vienna and Heidelberg (M.D. 1891). In 1895 he became|
116314478|/articles/9448-kolisch-sigmund|Austrian poet and historical writer; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Sept.15, 1817. He was educated at the University of Vienna, where he studied|
118713868|/articles/9449-kompert-leopold|Austrian author; born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia, May 15, 1822; died at Vienna Nov. 23, 1886. He studied at the universities of Prague and Vienna, and|
116291869|/articles/9451-konig-friedrich-eduard|German Protestant theologian; born at Reicheribach, Saxony, Nov. 15, 1846; Ph.D., 1874, Leipsic; D.D., 1888, Erlangen. He was appointed professor of|
118994069|/articles/9452-konig-julius|Hungarian mathematician; born Dec. 16, 1849, at Raab. He entered the University of Vienna to study medicine, but being more interested in|
116293802|/articles/9455-konigsberger-leo|German mathematician; born in Posen Oct. 15, 1837. He studied in Berlin (Ph.D. 1860), and was appointed instructor in mathematics and physics at the|
117529192|/articles/9456-konigstein-leopold|Austrian oculist; born at Bisenz, Moravia, April 26, 1850; M.D., Vienna, 1873. On graduating he engaged in practise as an oculist in the Austrian|
132339498;17387973X;|/articles/9463-koppelmann-jacob-ben-samuel|German author and translator; born in the district of Breisgau 1555; died 1598. In 1583 he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main, but was obliged to leave|
117537586;173243061|/articles/9467-koranyi-friedrich|Hungarian physician and medical writer; born Dec. 20, 1828, at Nagy-Kallo. In 1851 he took his doctor's degree at Budapest, and after practising for|
116340266|/articles/9471-korn-selig-friedrich-n-nork|German writer and mythologist; born April 26, 1803, at Prague; died at Teplitz Oct. 16, 1850. Expelled from the gymnasium of his native town on|
117537748|/articles/9474-kornfeld-hermann|German physician; born at Posen 1840; son of the Talmudist Samuel ben Naḥman Kornfeld and grandson of R. Akiba Eger. He received his education at|
1146679556|/articles/9475-kornik-kurnik-meir-ben-moses|German Rabbiner and calendar-maker; born at Glogau, where he was afterward Rabbiner; died at Hamburg Aug. 9, 1826. Kornik was the author of the following|
117530271|/articles/9477-korosi-joseph|Hungarian statistician; born April 20, 1844, at Pesth. He was educated privately, and then accepted a position with an insurance company, and also|
104178469|/articles/9479-kosch-raphael|German physician and deputy; born at Lissa, Posen, Oct. 5, 1803; died at Berlin March 27, 1872. Educated at the University of Königsberg (M.D.|
116343281|/articles/9483-kossarski-julius|German poet; born 1812 at Bromberg; died there July 1, 1879. He went to Berlin to take up the study of literature, afterward studying philosophy and|
11634329X|/articles/9484-kossarski-ludwig|German poet and writer; brother of Julius Kossarski; born 1810 at Bromberg; died Nov. 3, 1873, at Berlin. He studied medicine at Berlin, but soon|
118990926|/articles/9491-kowner-abraham-uri|Russian Hebrew critic; born at Wilna about 1837. He became renowned on account of a campaign which he conducted against many of the Hebrew Maskilim|
102023778|/articles/9498-krasnopolski-horace|Austrian jurist; born Nov. 5, 1842, at Pistyn, Galicia, where he received his earliest education in the ḥeder. From 1853 to 1861 he attended the|
1126616036|/articles/9499-kraus-adolf|American lawyer; born at Blowitz, Bobemia, Feb. 26, 1850; emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen, and worked successively on a farm,|
132942240|/articles/9502-kraus-leopold-gottlieb|Austrian physician; born at Kolin, Bohemia, Dec. 22, 1824; died in 1901. He studied at the University of Prague, making a specialty of neurology,|
101454643|/articles/9503-kraushar-alexander|Polish jurist and author; born 1843 at Warsaw; educated at the Royal Gymnasium in that city and at the preparatory college instituted by the marquis|
1055233393|/articles/9504-krauskopf-joseph|American Rabbiner and author; born in Ostrowo, Prussia, Jan. 21, 1858. He emigrated to America (New York) in July, 1872, and from New York he went to|
118927663|/articles/9505-krauss-friedrich-salomon|Austrian folklorist; born at Pozega, Slavonia, Oct. 7, 1859. He studied classical philology at the University of Vienna (Ph.D.), and then devoted|
116401656|/articles/9506-krauss-samuel|Hungarian philologist and historian; born in Ukk, a village in the county of Szala, Hungary, Feb. 18, 1866. At the age of eleven he was sent for two|
129728462|/articles/9510-kremnitzer-johanan-b-meir|Polish Rabbinernical author; lived in the seventeenth century at Kalisz.He wrote "Oraḥ Mishor" (Sulzbach, 1692), a commentary on "Darke Mosheh" to|
136522157|/articles/9511-kremser-simon|German army commissary; born Sept. 15, 1775, at Breslau, Germany; died 1851. He became commissary agent to Blücher in 1806, and was entrusted with|
1089705654|/articles/11004-mordecai-ben-naphtali-hirsch-kremsir|Polish commentator; died in Cracow 1670. He was a disciple of Shabbethai Sheftel. His most important work is a commentary to Targum Jonathan and|
117549320|/articles/9520-kristeller-samuel|German physician; born at Xions, Posen, May 26, 1820; died at Berlin June 15, 1900. He received his diploma as doctor of medicine from the|
137033192|/articles/9521-krochmal-abraham|Galician Philosoph and writer; born at Brody about 1823; died in 1895; son of Nachman Krochmal. Very littleis known of his life. He seems to have|
129519030|/articles/9522-krochmal-hayyim|Polish Talmudist; born 1626; died 1666 at Cracow; son-in-law of Abraham Chemiesch. He was for many years preacher ("darshan") in the different|
136935540|/articles/9523-krochmal-menahem-mendel-ben-abraham|Moravian Rabbiner; born at Cracow about 1600; died at Nikolsburg Jan. 2, 1661. His teacher in the Talmud was Joel Sirkes, author of "Bet Ḥadash."|
119229528|/articles/9524-krochmal-nachman-kohen|Austrian Philosoph and historian; born at Brody, Galicia, Feb. 17, 1785; died at Tarnopol July 31, 1840. He began the study of the Talmud at an|
116554487|/articles/9526-kronecker-hugo|German physiologist; born at Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 27, 1839; educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin (M.D. 1863). Attending|
118567020|/articles/9527-kronecker-leopold|German mathematician; born Dec. 7, 1823, at Liegnitz; died Dec. 29, 1891, at Berlin. Educated at the universities of Bonn, Breslau, and Berlin|
137108583|/articles/9530-kroner-theodor|German Rabbiner; born at Dyhernfurth, Prussian Silesia, May 12, 1845. He was educated at the gymnasium at Glatz, the yeshibah of R. Pollack at|
142368512|/articles/9531-kronik-kroniker-moses-ben-akiba-of-glogau|Rabbi of Flatow (Zlotowo); lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Tefillah we-Todah," hymns and prayers for the|
11884704X|/articles/9534-krug-wilhelm-traugott|Christian advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born June 22, 1770, in the village of Radis, near Wittenberg, Prussia; died at Leipsic Jan. 12,|
119076357|/articles/9538-kuenen-abraham|Dutch Christian Old Testament scholar; born in Haarlem, North Holland, Sept. 16, 1828; died in Leyden Dec. 10, 1891. He was educated at Leyden|
137415532|/articles/9540-kuh-david|Austrian journalist and deputy; born in Prague 1818; died Jan. 26, 1879. He gave up the study of medicine and law, which he had been pursuing in|
118943774|/articles/9541-kuh-emil|Austrian poet and novelist; born Dec. 13, 1828, at Vienna; died Dec. 30, 1876, at Meran; studied philosophy and history at the University of Vienna.|
120951711|/articles/9542-kuh-ephraim-moses|German poet; born 1731 in Breslau; died there April 3, 1790. His parents had chosen for him the career of a student of the Talmud; but his faith had|
116601469|/articles/9543-kuhn-abraham|German physician; born at Bissersheim, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1838; died at Strasburg Sept. 15, 1900. Kuhn was educated at the universities of Giessen,|
103835501X|/articles/9544-kuhn-moriz|Austrian physicist; born in Brünn, Moravia, Jan. 11, 1843; educated at the Polytechnic high school there, and later at the University of Vienna. He|
1018710930|/articles/9545-kulisher-mikhail-ignatyevich|Russian lawyer and author; born July 7, 1847, in a Jewish agricultural colony near the village of Sophiefka, district of Lutsk. At the age of ten he|
1017811350|/articles/9547-kulka-adolf|Austrian journalist; born Oct. 5, 1823, in Leipnik, Moravia; died in Vienna Dec. 5, 1898. He studied philosophy and jurisprudence in Prague and|
101205570|/articles/9548-kulke-eduard|Austrian author; born at Kostel, near Nikolsburg, Moravia, May 28, 1831; died in Vienna March 20, 1897; educated at the polytechnic institutes of|
142381918|/articles/9551-kunitzer-moses-ben-menahem|Rabbi in Ofen and dayyan in Budapest; born at Alt-Ofen; died Feb. 2, 1837. A descendant of Rabbi Löwe ben Bezaleel, he was one of the pioneers of|
173673600|/articles/9553-kupernik-abraham-avraam-aronovich|Russian communal worker; born at Wilna 1821; died at Dembitza 1893, on his homeward journey from abroad; buried in Kiev. He studied Talmud at the|
116615923|/articles/9555-kuranda-ignaz|Establishes "Die Grenzboten." Austrian deputy and political writer; born in Prague May 1, 1812; died in Vienna April 3, 1884. His grandfather and|
127882197|/articles/9559-kurrein-adolf|Austrian Rabbiner; born Jan. 28, 1846, at Trebitsch, Moravia. He received his doctor's degree from the University of Vienna. He was Rabbiner of St. Pölten|
116626771|/articles/9560-kusel-rudolph|German jurist and Politiker; born May 9, 1809, in Carlsruhe; died there Jan. 26, 1890. He studied law in Heidelberg and Munich, and in 1832 was|
139187731|/articles/9564-kutner-joshua-hoschel|Preacher at Lissa in the middle of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Ha-Emunah weha-Ḥaḳirah" (Breslau, 1847), containing a philosophical|
116627549|/articles/9565-kutner-robert|German surgeon; born at Ueckermünde, Pomerania, April 11, 1867. Educated at Berlin, Kiel, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Vienna, and Paris (M.D. 1891). In|
116000309|/articles/9643-l-arronge-adolf|German dramatist and theatrical manager; born in Hamburg March 8, 1838; son of Eduard Theodor l'Arronge (Aaron). He received a musical training at|
116635541|/articles/9570-labatt-leonard|Swedish dramatic tenor; born in Stockholm Dec. 4, 1838; died at Christiania, Norway, March 7, 1897. He studied under Günther and Masset, and made|
123943302|/articles/9577-ladier-dob-bar-b-shneor-zalman|Russian Ḥasidic Rabbiner; born about 1770; died 1834. He was the son of R. Shneor Zalman of Liady, the founder of the Ḥasidic sect known as "Ḥabad,"|
124586732|/articles/9580-ladvocat-jean-baptiste|Christian Hebraist; born at Vaucouleurs Jan. 3, 1709; died at Paris Dec. 29, 1765. Though he achieved particular distinction as a Hebraist and|
118725971|/articles/9582-lagarde-paul-anton-de|German Orientalist; born in Berlin Nov. 2, 1827; died in Göttingen Dec. 22, 1891. His father was Wilhelm Bötticher; and his earlier writings|
116652411|/articles/9589-lambert-mayer|French Orientalist; born Dec. 23, 1863, at Metz; son of Elie Lambert, author of religious text-books, grandson of Chief Rabbi Lion Mayer Lambert of|
136233627|/articles/9595-lamel-simon-edler-von|Austrian merchant; born at Tuschkau near Pilsen, Bohemia, Aug. 28, 1766; died at Vienna April 18, 1845. Early bereft of his father, he quickly|
138313881|/articles/9603-lampronti-isaac-b-samuel|Italian Rabbiner and physician; born Feb. 3, 1679, at Ferrara; died Nov. 16, 1756. His great-grandfather, Samuel Lampronti, emigrated from|
1017566348|/articles/9605-lanczy-leo|Hungarian deputy and financier; born in 1852. After having been connected for several years with the Anglo-Hungarian Bank and the Ungarische|
117575089|/articles/9610-landau-leopold|German gynecologist; born at Warsaw July 16, 1848. He studied at the universities of Breslau, Würzburg, and Berlin, graduating from the last-named|
136543189|/articles/9611-landau-wolf|German Rabbiner and author; born at Dresden March 1, 1811; died there Aug. 24, 1886; grandson of Chief Rabbi David Landau (known also as R. David|
137136226|/articles/9612-landauer-m-h|Writer on Jewish mysticism; born in 1808 at Kappel, near Buchau, Württemberg; died there Feb. 3, 1841. He was a son of the cantor Elias Landauer,|
116671920|/articles/9613-landauer-samuel|German Orientalist and librarian; born at Hürben, Bavaria, Feb. 22, 1846. He received his education at the yeshibah of Eisenstadt (Hungary), the|
131775952|/articles/9614-landesberg-max|Rumanian oculist; born in 1840 at Jassy; died at Florence March 4, 1895. He was educated at the gymnasium at Ratibor and at the University of Berlin|
11872911X|/articles/9615-landesmann-heinrich|Austrian poet and philosophical writer; born at Nikolsburg Aug. 9, 1821; died at Brünn Dec. 4, 1902. From his earliest childhood he was very sickly;|
1034940341|/articles/9622-landsberg-max|American Rabbiner; born at Berlin Feb. 26, 1845; son of Meyer Landsberg, "LandRabbinerner" at Hildesheim, Hanover. He was educated at the Hildesheim|
116669888|/articles/9624-landsberger-hugo|German novelist, dramatist, and editor; born at Berlin Aug. 25, 1861. His first production was "Der Neue Gott, Roman aus der Gegenwart," Dresden,|
117583596|/articles/9625-landsberger-joseph|German physician; born at Posen Aug. 21, 1848; descendant of Aryeh Löb, who died as martyr in Posen in 1737; educated at the gymnasium of his native|
1022222457|/articles/9626-landshuth-leser|German liturgiologist; born Jan. 15, 1817, at Lissa, Posen; died in Berlin March 23, 1887. He went to Berlin as a youth to study Jewish theology,|
103333835|/articles/9627-landsofer-landschreiber-jonah-ben-elijah|Bohemian Talmudist; born in 1678; died at Prague Oct. 9, 1712. Landsofer made a special study of the Masorah and was well versed in the regulations|
100300359|/articles/9628-langenschwarz-maximilian-leopold|German author and hydropathist; born 1801 at Rödelheim, near Frankfort-on-the-Main; died before 1860. His parents being very poor, a few wealthy|
130884359|/articles/9632-lapapa-aaron-b-isaac|Oriental Rabbiner and Talmudist; died 1674. He was at first Rabbiner at Manissa, Turkey, and at an advanced age was called to Smyrna as judge in civil|
117595101|/articles/9637-laqueur-ludwig-l|German ophthalmologist; born at Fürstenberg, Silesia, July 25, 1839. Studied at Paris and Berlin (M.D. 1860). In 1860 he became privat-docent at|
1022461818|/articles/9639-lara-isidore-de|English composer; born in London Aug. 9, 1858. He was educated at Boulogne, and made his first appearance as a pianist at the age of thirteen,|
1023965410|/articles/9646-lasch-gershon|German teacher and author; born in 1803; died at Halberstadt March 3, 1883. In 1823 he was appointed instructor at the Jewish school in Halberstadt,|
118569848|/articles/9649-lasker-eduard|German Politiker; born at Jarotschin, Posen, Oct. 14, 1829; died in New York city Jan. 5, 1884; educated at the universities of Breslau and Berlin|
118569872|/articles/9650-lasker-emanuel|Chess champion of the world; born Dec. 24, 1868, at Berlinchen, Germany; educated at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg, and took|
118569910|/articles/9652-lassalle-ferdinand|The founder of Social Democracy; born in Breslau, Germany, April 11, 1825; died Aug. 31, 1864, in Geneva. His father, Heymann Lassel, was a|
116002166|/articles/9654-lassar-oskar-e|German dermatologist and hygienist; born at Hamburg Jan. 11, 1849. He received his education at a gymnasium at Hamburg and at the universities of|
118975773|/articles/9655-lassen-eduard|Danish conductor and dramatic composer; born at Copenhagen April 13, 1830; died at Weimar Jan. 15, 1904. His father was president of the Jewish|
11600455X|/articles/9656-lasson-adolf|German philosophical writer; born at Alt-Strelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, March 12, 1832; educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the|
116010223;117605700|/articles/9658-laszlo-philip|Hungarian portrait-painter; born June 1, 1869, at Budapest. As a highly talented student of the Model Drawing School of Budapest, he received for|
116865407|/articles/9662-laub-ferdinand|Austrian violinist; born at Prague Jan. 19, 1832; died March 17, 1875, at Gries, near Bozen, Tyrol. He received his early musical education from his|
172236126|/articles/9665-laurence-richard|English Christian Hebraist; born in Bath 1760; died in Dublin 1838. He was made regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in|
116769068|/articles/9667-lautenburg-sigmund|Theatrical manager; born at Budapest Sept. 11, 1852. In consequence of the poverty of his parents, he was obliged to interrupt his studies at the|
120813874|/articles/9683-lazare-bernard|French author; born at Nîmes June 14, 1865; died at Paris Sept. 1, 1903; educated in his native town and in Paris, where he settled, becoming critic|
118779052|/articles/9685-lazarus-emma|American poet; born July 22, 1849, in New York city; died there Nov. 19, 1887; daughter of Moses and Esther (Nathan) Lazarus. She was educated by|
136544142|/articles/9688-lazarus-leyser|German Talmudist; born at Filehne 1820; died at Breslau April 16, 1879; brother of Moritz Lazarus. He first attended yeshibot, then went to|
118570439|/articles/9689-lazarus-moritz|German Philosoph; born at Filehne, in the Prussian province of Posen, Sept. 15, 1824; died at Meran, Tyrol, April 13, 1903; son of Aaron Levin|
116847956|/articles/9691-lazarus-nahida-ruth|German authoress; born Feb. 3, 1849, at Berlin; a descendant of a German Christian family. She was married first to Dr. Max Remy (in her writings|
142381357|/articles/9697-lebensohn-abraham-dob-bar-ben-hayyim|Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian; born in Wilna, Russia, about 1789; died there Nov. 19, 1878. Like all Jewish boys of that time in Russia he|
142381209|/articles/9698-lebensohn-micah-joseph|Russian Hebrew poet; born in Wilna, Russia, Feb. 22, 1828; died there Feb. 17, 1852. His father, the poet Abraham Bär Lebensohn, implanted in him|
116849908|/articles/9699-lebert-lewy-hermann|German physician; born at Breslau June 9, 1813; died at Bex, Canton Waadt, Switzerland, Aug. 1, 1878. He studied medicine at the universities of|
116849959|/articles/9700-lebert-siegmund-siegmund-levy|Music-teacher and writer on music; born at Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, Dec. 12, 1822; died at Stuttgart Dec. 8, 1884. After completing his studies|
116850159|/articles/9701-lebrecht-furchtegott|German educator; born at Memmelbach, Bavaria, Nov. 16, 1800; died at Berlin, Sept. 1, 1876. He studied at Fürth, and later at Presburg under Moses|
1019164670|/articles/9704-lederer-abraham|Hungarian educator and writer; born Jan. 9, 1827, at Libochowitz, Bohemia. In 1840 he went to Prague, where he studied at the Teachers' Seminary and|
116851945|/articles/9705-lederer-joachim-k|Austrian play-wright; born at Prague Aug. 28, 1808; died at Dresden July 31, 1876. Lederer received only a meager education under a private tutor.|
118779192|/articles/9706-lee-sidney|English editor; born in London Dec. 5, 1859; educated at City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. Almost immediately on leaving college he|
1163626775|/articles/9709-leeuw-jacob-heymann-de|Dutch Talmudist; born at Leyden 1811; died at Amsterdam Sept. 15, 1883. He removed to the latter city in 1874, and was appointed Rabbiner at the bet|
116856335|/articles/9710-lefmann-salomon|German philologist; born at Telgte, Westphalia, Dec. 25, 1831, his family being old Westphalian settlers. He was educated at the Jewish school of|
116867159|/articles/9717-lehmann-emil|German jurist; born at Dresden Feb. 2, 1829; died there Feb. 25, 1898; son of the merchant Bonnier Lehmann. He attended the Israelitische|
116867094|/articles/9718-lehmann-joseph|German journalist; born at Glogau Dec. 28, 1801; died at Berlin Feb. 19, 1873. At the age of fifteen he found his way to Berlin, and secured a|
1030604010|/articles/9720-lehmann-leonce|French lawyer; born at Augsburg, Bavaria, Feb. 24, 1836; died in Paris Dec. 27, 1892. He was educated in the latter city, where he studied law, and|
128979178|/articles/9721-lehmann-marcus-meyer|German Rabbiner; born Dec. 29, 1831, at Verden, Hanover; died at Mayence April 14, 1890. After graduating from the gymnasium, he studied Hebrew at|
116876573|/articles/9725-lehrs-karl-ludwig-kaufmann|German philologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, Jan. 2, 1802; died there June 9, 1878; brother of the philologist F. Siegfried Lehrs|
117626546|/articles/9728-leidesdorf-max|Austrian psychiatrist; born at Vienna June 27, 1818; died there Oct. 9, 1889; educated at the university of his native city (M.D. 1845). After|
116882468|/articles/9730-leimdorfer-david|Rabbi; born at Hlinik, Hungary, Sept. 17, 1851; educated at his native place and at Zsolna, Waitzen, Budapest, Presburg, and Vienna. He became a|
116890444|/articles/9735-leitner-gottlieb-william|Professor of Arabic; born at Budapest in 1841; died at Bonn March 22, 1899. He was educated at Constantinople and at King's College, London. Showing|
143894056|/articles/9740-lemans-moses|Dutch educationist; born at Naarden Nov. 5, 1785; died at Amsterdam Oct. 17, 1832. He was educated by his father and (in mathematics) by Littwack.|
133558525|/articles/9745-lemon-hartog|Dutch physician and worker for the emancipation of the Jews; born about the middle of the eighteenth century; died at an advanced age at Amsterdam|
118500198|/articles/9754-leo-hebraeus-abravanel-judah|Physician, Philosoph, and poet; born in Lisbon in the second half of the fifteenth century, and died at Venice in 1535. He accompanied his father,|
118640437|/articles/9753-leo-x-giovanni-de-medici|Two hundred and twenty-fourth pope; born at Florence Dec. 11, 1475; elected March 11, 1513; died Dec. 1, 1521. His pontificate was very favorable|
118876511|/articles/9766-leon-judah-aryeh-of-modena|Italian scholar, Rabbiner, and poet; son of Isaac of Modena and Diana Rachel; born April 23, 1571, at Venice; died there March 24, 1648. He was a|
13221279X|/articles/9760-leon-edwin-de|American diplomat and journalist; born at Columbia, S. C., 1818; died in 1891; brother of David Camden de Leon. His father, a physician, removed to|
101362923X|/articles/9765-leon-messer-david-ben-messer|Italian Rabbiner; flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He studied at Naples in the school of his father, Messer Leon, author of "Libnat|
102794510|/articles/9767-leon-moses-ben-shem-tob-de|Cabalistic writer; author, or redactor, of the Zohar; born at Leon, Spain, about 1250; lived in Guadalajara, Valladolid, and Avila; died at Arevalo|
173319254|/articles/9768-leon-thomas-cooper-de|Lecturer, journalist, author, and playwright; brother of Edwin de Leon; born at Columbia, S. C., 1839. He served in the Confederate army from 1861|
137187211|/articles/9779-lerner-maier|German Rabbiner; born in Galicia 1857. He studied in Berlin under Hildesheimer, became Rabbiner at Winzenheim, Alsace (1884-1890), and preacher for the|
117668419|/articles/9780-leroy-beaulieu-henri-jean-baptiste-anatole|French historian; born at Lisieux in 1842. The first works that appeared from his pen were "Une Troupe des Comédiens" and "Essai sur la Restauration|
11766992X|/articles/9782-lesser-adolf|German physician and writer on medical jurisprudence; born at Stargard, province of Pomerania, Prussia, May 22, 1851; graduated from Berlin|
116949430|/articles/9783-lesser-alexander|Polish painter; born at Warsaw 1814; died there 1884. He was educated at the Warsaw lyceum and studied art at Warsaw University, at the Academy of|
117669938|/articles/9784-lesser-edmund|German physician; born at Neisse May 12, 1852; educated at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Strasburg (M.D. 1876). He became assistant at the|
116949627|/articles/9786-lesser-ludwig|German poet, editor, and publicist; born at Rathenow, province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Dec. 7, 1802; died at Berlin Dec. 2, 1867. When very young|
118572121|/articles/9787-lessing-gotthold-ephraim|German poet and critic; born Jan. 22, 1729, at Kamenz, Upper Lusatia; died Feb. 15, 1781, at Brunswick.Toleration and a striving after freedom of|
116956267|/articles/9791-letteris-meir-halevi-max|Austrian scholar and poet; born Sept. 13, 1800, at Zolkiev; died at Vienna May 19, 1871. He was a member of a family of printers that originally|
173584454|/articles/9793-levanda-lev-osipovitch|Russian author; born at Minsk 1835; died at St. Petersburg 1888. Levanda graduated from the Rabbinernical school in Wilna in 1854; was appointed|
11696104X|/articles/9795-leven-narcisse|French lawyer and communal worker; born at Urdingen, on the Rhine, Oct. 15, 1833; educated at the Lycée Henri IV. and at the Faculty of Law in|
119222760|/articles/9798-levertin-oskar-ivar|Swedish poet and critic; born at Gryt, East Gotland, July 17, 1862; educated at the University of Upsala (Ph.D. 1882), where, in 1889, he was|
121169804|/articles/9806-levi-ben-abraham-ben-hayyim|French encyclopedist; champion of the liberal party in Provence in the struggle for the study of secular sciences; born at|
118538802|/articles/9813-levi-ben-gershon|French Philosoph, exegete, mathematician, and physician; born at Bagnols in 1288; died April 20, 1344. Abraham Zacuto ("Yuḥasin," ed. Filipowski,|
120687542|/articles/9818-levi-ben-japheth-ha-levi-abu-sa-id|Karaite scholar; flourished, probably at Jerusalem, in the first half of the eleventh century. Although, like his father, he was considered one of|
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124783457|/articles/9805-levi-abraham|German traveler; born at Horn, in the principality of Lippe, in 1702; died at Amsterdam Feb. 1, 1785. At the age of five he was sent to Brog, near|
1068374322|/articles/9807-levi-benedikt|German Rabbiner; born at Worms Oct. 14, 1806; died at Giessen April 4, 1899; son of Samuel Wolf Levi, a member of the Sanhedrin of Paris and Rabbiner of|
116962518|/articles/9810-levi-david|Italian poet and patriot; born at Chieri 1816; died at Venice Oct. 18, 1898. Educated at the Jewish schools of his native town and Vercelli, he for|
1053151446|/articles/9811-levi-david|Hebraist and author; born in London 1742; died 1801. He was destined by his parents for the Rabbinernate; but the design was abandoned, and he was|
118865900|/articles/9814-levi-hermann|Musical director; born at Giessen, Germany, Nov. 7, 1839; died at Munich May 13, 1900. His mother was a pianist of distinction. He studied under|
116968257|/articles/9817-levi-israel|French Rabbiner and scholar; born at Paris July 7, 1856. He was ordained as Rabbiner by the Rabbinical Seminary of Paris in 1879; appointed assistant|
117670324|/articles/9823-levi-leone|English political economist; born in Ancona, Italy, in 1821; died in London May 7, 1888. Levi went to England at an early age, was converted to|
116963042|/articles/9827-levi-mose-giuseppe|Italian physician; born at Guastalla 1796; died at Venice Dec. 27, 1859. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of Padua in 1817 and|
119027283|/articles/9836-levi-sylvain|French Orientalist; born at Paris March 28, 1863. He received his education at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, where he became "agrégé ès lettres" in|
1055317643|/articles/9837-levi-catellani-enrico|Italian lawyer; born at Padua June 12, 1856; educated at the university there. In 1885 he was appointed assistant professor, and in 1890 professor,|
119374293|/articles/9838-levi-civita-tullio|Italian physicist; born at Padua March 29, 1873; educated at the university there (Ph. D). He was successively appointed assistant professor (1898)|
118626175|/articles/9852-levin-robert-rahel-antonie-friederike|German writer; born at Berlin June 19, 1771; died there March 7, 1833. Her home life was uncongenial, her father, a wealthy jeweler, being a|
102787123|/articles/9843-levin-hirschel-ben-aryeh-lob|German Rabbiner; born at Rzeszow, Galicia, in 1721; died at Berlin Aug. 26, 1800. His father (known also as Saul Levin) was Rabbiner at Amsterdam; and on|
128700203|/articles/9844-levin-israel-solomon|Danish grammarian and linguist; born in Randers 1810; died in Copenhagen 1883. He graduated from Randers high school, and afterward was employed as|
138612668|/articles/9846-levin-joshua-hoschel-ben-elijah-zeeb|Lithuanian Talmudist and author; born at Wilna July 22, 1818; died at Paris Nov. 15, 1883. After studying Talmud and Rabbinernics under Elijah|
105519617X|/articles/9850-levin-moritz|German Rabbiner; born 1843 at Wongrowitz, Posen. He studied at the University of Berlin, and was prepared for his Rabbinernical career by private|
116964790|/articles/9851-levin-poul-theodor|Danish author; born in Copenhagen June 17, 1869; educated at the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 1898). Levin, who has become widely known as a|
124943764|/articles/9855-levinsohn-isaac-baer|Russian-Hebrew scholar and writer; born at Kremenetz Oct. 13, 1788; died there Feb. 12, 1860. His father, Judah Levin, was a grandson of Jekuthiel|
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126618526|/articles/9857-levinstein-gustav|German manufacturer and writer; born in Berlin May, 1842. After graduating from the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin he went to England, where he and|
132968959|/articles/9860-levisohn-george-mordecai-gumpel-leive|German surgeon; born in Berlin of a family known as "Schnaber" ; died in Hamburg Feb. 10, 1797. He evinced an early aptitude for study, and attended|
11868194X|/articles/9864-levita-elijah|Grammarian, Masorite, and poet; born at Neustadt, near Nuremberg, in 1468; died at Venice Dec., 1549.V08p047001.jpgTitle-Page from the First Edition|
118640518|/articles/9865-levitan-isaac-isaac-ilyich|Russian painter; born near Eidtkuhnen Aug. 18, 1860; died at Moscow July 22, 1900. His father, who earned a livelihood by giving private tuition,|
142734268|/articles/9873-levy-alphonse|French painter; born at Marmoutier, Alsace, in 1843; educated at the Strasburg lyceum. At the age of seventeen he went to Paris, where he studied|
12410407X|/articles/9874-levy-amy|English novelist and poet; born Nov. 10, 1861, in London; died there Sept. 10, 1899. Verse written by her before she was eight years of age gave|
117670413|/articles/9875-levy-armand-abraham|French mathematician and mineralogist; born at Paris 1794; died there June 26, 1841. He was a graduate of the Ecole Normale, where he became teacher|
116968613|/articles/9877-levy-august-michel|French engineer, geologist, and mineralogist; born at Paris Aug. 17, 1844; son of Michel Lévy. In 1862 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique, and two|
116966130|/articles/9881-levy-emil|German philologist; born at Hamburg Oct. 23, 1855; educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin (Ph.D. 1880). The following two years he|
11767043X|/articles/9883-levy-ernst|German physician; born at Lauterburg, Alsace, March 5, 1864; educated at the universities of Strasburg, Heidelberg, and Paris (M.D.1887). Settling|
121907082|/articles/9887-levy-henri-leopold|French painter; born at Nancy Sept. 23, 1840; pupil of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and of Picot, Cabanel, and Fromentin. His first exhibit was "Hecuba|
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1056148632|/articles/9891-levy-joseph-hiam|English economist; born 1838; educated at the City of London School and City of London College. He entered the British Civil Service, was assigned|
1013706439|/articles/9896-levy-louis-asher-ben-moses|Poet and cantor of the Berlin synagogue; died Jan. 25, 1853. He wrote "Teḳufat ha-Shanah" (Berlin, 1842), poems on the four seasons, in imitation of|
1019163488|/articles/9897-levy-louis-edward|American photochemist; born at Stenowitz, Bohemia, Oct. 12, 1846. He went to America in early life, and was educated at Detroit; he studied|
130093726|/articles/9898-levy-ludwig|German architect; born March 14, 1852, at Landau. After his return from Italy, where he completed his studies, he was entrusted with the building of|
117670472|/articles/9899-levy-maurice|French engineer and member of the Institut; born at Ribeauville, Alsace, Feb. 28, 1838. Educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Ponts|
116968516|/articles/9901-levy-meyer|German jurist; born in Wollstein, province of Posen, Jan. 17, 1833; died in Berlin Oct. 18, 1896. After practising as an assessor in Berlin, he|
119014416|/articles/9902-levy-michel|French publisher; born at Pfalzburg Dec. 20, 1821; died in Paris May 6, 1875. In 1836 he settled in the latter city, where, together with his|
117670480|/articles/9903-levy-michel|French physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 28, 1809; died at Paris March 13, 1872; educated at the University of Montpellier (M.D. 1834). In 1836 he|
116968648|/articles/9904-levy-moritz-abraham|German Orientalist; born at Altona March 11, 1817; died at Breslau Feb. 22, 1872. Having received a Rabbinernical education, he became teacher in the|
124505937|/articles/9908-levy-sara|German philanthropist; born in Berlin June, 1761; died there March 11, 1854. She was a daughter of Daniel Itzig, and was well educated according to|
135806453|/articles/9910-levy-uriah-phillips|V08p064001.jpgUriah Phillips LevyAmerican naval officer; born in Philadelphia April 22, 1792; died in New York March 22, 1862. Levy was a cabin-boy|
116968982|/articles/9912-levy-bruhl-lucien|French Philosoph; born at Paris April 10, 1857; educated at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. In 1879 he received the degree|
118572393|/articles/9914-lewald-fanny|German authoress; born May 24, 1811, in Königsberg, Prussia; died Aug. 5, 1889, in Dresden. In her seventeenth year she entered the Evangelical|
128690615|/articles/9915-lewandowski-louis|German composer of synagogal music; born at Wreschen, province of Posen, April 23, 1823; died Feb. 4, 1894, at Berlin. At the age of twelve he went|
116971207|/articles/9918-lewin-adolf|German Rabbiner and author; born at Pinne, Posen, Sept. 23, 1843. Lewin was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the University of|
1019070080|/articles/9919-lewin-georg-richard|German dermatologist; born at Sondershausen April 25, 1820; died at Berlin Nov. 1, 1896. He was educated at the universities of Halle and Berlin,|
11857244X|/articles/9920-lewin-louis|German pharmacologist and toxicologist; born at Tuchel, West Prussia, Nov. 9, 1850. He received his education at the gymnasium and the University of|
139552960|/articles/9922-lewinsky-abraham|German Rabbiner; born March 1, 1866, at Loslau, Upper Silesia. He studied at the University of Breslau from 1884 to 1887 (Ph.D.), pursuing at the same|
119113937|/articles/9929-lewis-samuel|English money-lender and philanthropist; born in Birmingham 1837; died in London Jan. 13, 1901. Lewis began work when thirteen years old. He became|
12192016X|/articles/9933-lewy-bergnart-bernhard-carl|Danish chemist; born in Copenhagen July 5, 1817; died there Jan. 1, 1863. He obtained the degree of graduate of pharmacy in 1835, and then studied|
143497936|/articles/9934-lewy-israel|German scholar; born at Inowrazlaw in 1847; educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau. In 1874 he was appointed|
142372005|/articles/9935-lewysohn-abraham|Hebraist and Rabbiner of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia; born Dec. 6, 1805; died Feb. 14, 1860. He left a large number of manuscripts—several hundred|
143022563|/articles/9948-libowitz-nehemiah-samuel|Russian Hebrew scholar and author; born Jan. 3, 1862, at Kolno, government of Lomza (Lomzha). He studied Talmud under R. Elijah Ḥasid and then under|
10398609X|/articles/9952-lichtenberg-leopold|Violinist; born at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 22, 1861. He studied under Beaujardin, and made his first appearance in concert when eight years of|
143696726|/articles/9954-lichtenstadt-moses-abigdor|Polish Hebraist and Talmudist; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, July 15, 1787; died at Odessa Jan. 17, 1870. He was noted as well for his charities,|
1048018830|/articles/9956-lichtenstein-hillel|Hungarian Rabbiner; born at Vecs 1815; died at Kolomea, Galicia, May 18, 1891. After studying at the yeshibah of Moses Sofer he married, in 1837, the|
116986263|/articles/9957-lichtheim-ludwig|German physician; born Dec. 7, 1845, at Breslau, where he was educated at the gymnasium. He then studied medicine at the universities of Berlin,|
142664634|/articles/9960-lichtstein-abraham-jekuthiel-salman-ben-moses-joseph|Rabbi of Plonsk, government of Warsaw, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Zera' Abraham" (Dyhernfurth, 1811), a|
116987537|/articles/9961-lieben-adolf|Austrian chemist; born at Vienna Dec. 3, 1836. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1856), and Paris, and subsequently held|
142371777|/articles/9964-liebermann-libermann-eliezer|Talmudist of the first half of the nineteenth century. According to G. Wolf, in his biography of Isaac Noah Mannheimer (p. 10, Note), he was a|
119122812|/articles/9962-liebermann-aaron-arthur-freeman|Russian writer; born at Wilna about 1840. Persecuted because of his participation in revolutionary movements, he fled to America, and died by his|
136684521|/articles/9963-liebermann-benjamin|German manufacturer; born at Märkisch Friedland Feb. 4, 1812; died in Berlin Jan. 15, 1901. In 1825 his family moved to the latter city; and|
133970604|/articles/9965-liebermann-eliezer-dob|Russian writer; born in Pilvischok, government of Suwalki, April 12, 1820; died in Byelostok April 15, 1895. His father was a shoḥeṭ and gave him|
116996129|/articles/9966-liebermann-felix|German historian; born July 20, 1851, in Berlin. Destined for a commercial career, he began business life in a Berlin bank in 1869. There he|
118572695|/articles/9968-liebermann-max|German painter; born at Berlin July 29, 1849. After studying law at Berlin University for a year, he abandoned it and took up the study of painting|
1038283264|/articles/9970-liebling-emil|German pianist; born at Pless, Silesia, April 12, 1851. After a course in piano at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, Berlin, under Ehrlich and Kullak,|
116997532|/articles/9971-liebrecht-felix|German folklorist; born at Namslau, Silesia, March 13, 1812; died at St. Hubert Aug. 3, 1890. He studied philology at the universities of Breslau,|
116997567|/articles/9972-liebreich-oskar-matthias-eugen|German physician and pharmacologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, Feb. 14, 1839;younger brother of Richard Liebreich. He studied first|
117671819|/articles/9973-liebreich-richard|English ophthalmologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, June 30, 1830; brother of Oskar Liebreich. He received his education at the universities|
120508524|/articles/9980-lightfoot-john|English Christian divine and Talmudist; born at Stoke-upon-Trent 1602; died at Ely 1675. He passed through Christ's College, Cambridge, and later|
118572938|/articles/9982-lilien-ephraim-moses|Austrian artist; born at Drohobicz, Galicia, in 1874. Lilien's artistic inclinations became evident early in life. He was apprenticed to a|
11936588X|/articles/9983-lilienblum-moses-lob|Russian scholar and author; born at Keidany, government of Kovno, Oct. 22, 1843. From his father he learned the calculation of the course of the|
117006157|/articles/9984-lilienthal-max|Rabbi and educator; born at Munich Nov. 6, 1815; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1882; educated at the University of Munich (Ph.D. 1837). In 1839|
118572970|/articles/9985-lilienthal-otto|German mechanical engineer and experimenter in aerial navigation; born May 23, 1848, at Anklam; died Aug. 9, 1896, at Rhinow. Lilienthal's theory|
1111133204|/articles/9988-lima-moses-b-isaac-judah|Lithuanian Rabbinernical scholar, one of the so-called Aḥaronim; born in the second decade of the seventeenth century; died about 1670. When a|
142437387|/articles/9997-lindo-mark-prager|Dutch writer; born in London Sept. 18, 1819; died at The Hague March 9, 1879. He went to Holland in 1838 as teacher of English, first at Arnhem, and|
134066782|/articles/10000-linetzki-isaac-joel|Russo-Yiddish humorist; born at Vinnitza Sept. 8, 1839, in which town his father, Joseph Linetzki, was a Ḥasidic Rabbiner. At the age of eighteen Isaac|
141268824|/articles/10002-lion-henri-julius|Dutch journalist; born March 23, 1806, at Elberfeld; died Oct. 19, 1869. In 1824 he entered the Prussian army, and in 1830 that of Holland. In 1834|
11906815X|/articles/10004-lipiner-siegfried|Austrian poet; born at Yaroslav, Galicia, Oct. 24, 1856; educated at the gymnasia in Tarnow and Vienna and at the universities of Leipsic and|
12484880X|/articles/10011-lippe-chaim-david|Austrian publisher and bibliographer; born Dec. 22, 1823, at Stanislawow, Galicia; died Aug. 26, 1900, at Vienna. For some time he was cantor and|
117676004|/articles/10013-lippmann-eduard|Austrian chemist; born at Prague Sept. 23, 1842; educated at the gymnasium of Vienna and the universities of Leipsic and Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1864). He|
117044873|/articles/10014-lippmann-gabriel|French physicist; born at Hollerich, Luxemburg, in 1845. After being educated at the Ecole Normale and in Germany, he went to Paris, taking the|
120208717|/articles/10015-lippmann-gabriel-hirsch|German Rabbiner; born at Memmelsdorf, Bavaria; died at Kissingen May 26, 1864. He went in his early youth to Burgpreppach, where he studied the Talmud|
11881656X|/articles/10018-lipschitz-rudolf|German mathematician; born May 14, 1832, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died at Bonn Oct. 8, 1903. Educated at his native town (Ph.D. 1853), he|
1089710917|/articles/10023-lisker-abraham-ben-hayyim|Russian Rabbiner of the seventeenth century; native of Brest-Litovsk. After studying in the yeshibot of Lublin and Cracow, Lisker was called to the|
117059811|/articles/10026-lissauer-abraham|German physician and anthropologist; born at Berent, West Prussia, Aug. 29, 1832; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the|
173971776|/articles/10049-loans-elijah-ben-moses-ashkenazi|German Rabbiner and cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1555; died at Worms July, 1636. He belonged to the Rashi family, and on his mother's side|
13622198X|/articles/10050-loans-jacob-ben-jehiel|Physician in ordinary to the German emperor Frederick III. (1440-93), and Hebrew teacher of Johann Reuchlin; died at Linz about 1506. Loans rendered|
140911650|/articles/10053-lob-aryeh-ha-kohen-of-styria|Rabbi at Rozniatow and afterward at Styria; died in 1813. He was the author of the following works: "Ḳeẓot ha-Ḥoshen," a casuistic commentary in two|
1011827018|/articles/10067-lob-ben-samuel-zebi-hirsch|Russian Rabbiner; born probably at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Poland, about 1630; died at Brest-Litovsk 1714. Löb was on his father's side the|
12402825X|/articles/10068-lob-of-shpola|Early Ḥasidic Rabbiner; died at an advanced age Oct. 4, 1810. It is said that he was a poor "melammed" or teacher in his younger days, and that he did|
132296306|/articles/10071-lobatto-rehuel|Dutch mathematician; born at Amsterdam June 6, 1797; died at Delft Feb. 9, 1866. He sprang from a Portuguese Marano family which had gone to Holland|
1051462843|/articles/10072-lobel-arthur|Austrian physician; born at Roman, Rumania, May 15, 1857; educated at the gymnasium of Czernowitz and the universities of Vienna and Paris (M.D.,|
13991272X|/articles/10080-loeb-isidore|French scholar; born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace, Nov. 1, 1839; died at Paris, June 3, 1892. The son of Rabbi Seligmann Loeb of Sulzmatt,|
119133628|/articles/10081-loeb-jacques|American biologist; born in Germany April 7, 1859; educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M. D. 1884). He took a|
117676683|/articles/10083-loeb-morris|American chemist; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1863; son of Solomon Loeb; educated at the New York College of Pharmacy and at the universities|
1055435425|/articles/10084-loewe-louis|English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot of Lissa, Nikolsburg,|
117166839|/articles/10085-loewe-ludwig|German manufacturer, philanthropist, and member of the Reichstag; born at Heiligenstadt Nov. 27, 1837; died at Berlin Sept. 11, 1886. The son of a|
117187860|/articles/10086-loewenthal-eduard|German writer and editor; born March 12, 1836, at Ernsbach, Württemberg; educated at the high school at Stuttgart and at the University of Tübingen,|
117190446|/articles/10087-loewy-emanuel|Austrian archeologist; born at Vienna Sept. 1, 1857; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (Ph.D. 1882). He is now (1904)|
11719056X|/articles/10088-loewy-maurice|Astronomer; born at Vienna, Austria, April 15, 1833. A descendant of a Hungarian family, he received his education at his native city, where he was|
1019587113|/articles/10092-lolli-eude|Italian Rabbiner; born at Göritz Aug. 23, 1826; educated at the lyceum of his native town and at the Rabbinernical college of Padua, graduating thence in|
118728970|/articles/10096-lombroso-cesare|Italian alienist and criminologist; born Nov. 18, 1835, at Verona. Both his paternal and his maternal ancestors belonged to the tribe of Levi. On|
131791354|/articles/10101-london-solomon-b-moses-raphael|Russian author and publisher; lived at Novogrudok, Lithuania, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil of Samuel Schotten,|
105539849X|/articles/10105-lonzano-menahem-ben-judah-ben-menahem-de|Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer, and poet; died after 1608 in Jerusalem. His nativity is unknown, but it has been|
129065501|/articles/10109-lopez-rodrigo|Court physician to Queen Elizabeth; born in Portugal about 1525; executed June 7, 1594, for having attempted to poison the queen. He settled in|
119123274|/articles/10115-loria-achille|Italian political economist; born at Mantua March 2, 1857; educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities of Bologna, Pavia, Rome,|
117217174|/articles/10116-loria-gino|Italian mathematician; born at Mantua May 19, 1862; educated at the Mantua lyceum and at the University of Turin, becoming doctor of mathematics in|
1055150277|/articles/10130-lovinson-ermanno|German historian; born in Berlin June 3, 1863; educated at Berlin University (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1889 he has lived in Italy, and since 1895 has been|
140351027|/articles/10131-lovy-israel|French cantor and synagogal composer; born near Danzig Sept., 1773; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1832. He received a Talmudic and secular education at|
120823985|/articles/10132-low-a-maurice|Anglo-American writer; born in London July 14, 1860. Educated at King's College School in that city, and afterward in Austria, he devoted himself to|
136556442|/articles/10134-low-benjamin-wolf|Polish-Hungarian Rabbiner; born in Wodzislaw, government of Kielce, Poland, 1775; died at Verbo, Hungary, March 6, 1851. His father, Eleazar Löw,|
137219504|/articles/10135-low-leopold|Hungarian Rabbiner; born at Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811; died at Szegedin Oct. 13, 1875. He received his preliminary education at the yeshibot of|
1020008121|/articles/10136-low-moritz|Astronomer; born at Mako, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipsic and Vienna, and received|
117165859|/articles/10140-lowe-joel|German commentator; born in 1760; died in Breslau Feb. 11, 1802. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel (= "son of R. Judah Löb").|
117166456|/articles/10141-lowe-konrad|Austrian actor; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1856. He took a law course at the University of Vienna, and then went on the stage (1878). After|
117677310|/articles/10142-lowe-ludwig|German physician; born at Berlin March 11, 1844. After graduating from the gymnasium, he attended the universities of Jena, Würzburg, Strasburg, and|
101984759X|/articles/10143-lowe-moses-samuel-johann-michael-siegfried-lowe|German painter and engraver; born at Königsberg, Prussia, June 24, 1756; died there May 10, 1831. Aided by the friendship and influence of the|
133287270|/articles/10144-lowenberg-julius|German geographer; born at Strzelno, Prussia, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 12, 1893. He was educated in Berlin, where he became acquainted with|
117168815|/articles/10145-lowenfeld-leopold|German physician; born in Munich Jan. 23, 1847; educated at the gymnasium and university in his native city (M.D. 1870). During the Franco-Prussian|
123416248|/articles/10146-lowengard-max|German Rabbiner; born in Württemberg; died at Basel May 25, 1876. He was a friend of Berthold Auerbach and a diligent student of Schelling's|
1071931288|/articles/10148-lowenstamm-saul|Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Rzeszow 1717; died at Amsterdam June 19, 1790. He is known as the author of "Binyan Ariel" (Amsterdam, 1778), which|
1140548433|/articles/10150-lowenstein-bernhard|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Meseritz, province of Posen, Feb. 1, 1821; died at Lemberg March 15, 1889. Upon the recommendation of Ludwig Philippson he|
120710226|/articles/10151-lowenstein-l-h|Hebrew scholar; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1850. He was reviser in the publishing-house of Isaac Lehrberger at Rödelheim, which office was|
10410340X|/articles/10152-lowenstein-leopold|German Rabbiner; born in Gailingen, Baden, Dec. 1, 1843. He attended the gymnasium at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, receiving at the same time|
117186368|/articles/10153-lowenstein-rudolf|German author; born at Breslau Feb. 20, 1819; died at Berlin Jan. 6, 1891. When only nine years of age he was baptized. Educated at the gymnasium at|
1041565240|/articles/10156-lowenthal-naumann|German teacher and writer; born Feb. 25, 1819, at Schmiegel; died at Posen Feb. 28, 1855. He attended the gymnasium in Lissa and the universities of|
122192052|/articles/10157-lowi-isaac|German Rabbiner; born at Adelsdorf, near Erlangen, Bavaria, Jan. 31, 1803; died at Fürth Dec. 26, 1873. He received his Talmudical training at the|
119141329|/articles/10159-lowisohn-solomon|Historian and poet; born in Mor, district of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, in 1788; died there April 27, 1821. He studied at the yeshibah of Prague,|
127910905|/articles/10160-lowy-adolf|German physiologist; born in Berlin June 29, 1862; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (M.D. 1885), where he became|
142007072|/articles/10161-lowy-albert|English Rabbiner and communal worker; born at Aussee, Moravia, Dec., 1816. He studied first at Olmütz, and then moved to Vienna, where under Professor|
1012974316|/articles/10162-lowy-jacob-ezekiel|German Rabbiner and author; born at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia, Aug. 24, 1814; died at Beuthen Nov. 20, 1864. After attending various yeshibot in|
129733229|/articles/10168-lublin-meir-ben-gedaliah-maharam|Polish Rabbiner; born at Lublin (?) 1558; died there May 3, 1616. He was descended from a family of Rabbiners, and he speaks of his father as being an|
117315907|/articles/10185-lumley-benjamin|Director of Her Majesty's Theatre, Drury Lane, London; born in Canada 1811; died in London March 17, 1875. He was the son of Louis Levy, a Canadian|
123894514|/articles/10186-luncz-abraham-moses|Russian scholar and editor; born Dec. 9, 1854, at Kovno, Russia; went when very young to Jerusalem, where he still (1904) lives. Luncz, who has been|
118575449|/articles/10196-luther-martin|German church reformer; born at Eisleben Nov. 10, 1483; died there Feb. 18, 1546. The Reformation originated in the Renaissance, being due partly to|
141110813|/articles/10201-luzki-simhah-isaac-ben-moses|Karaite writer and bibliographer; born at Lutsk at the end of the seventeenth century; died, according to Firkovich, at Chufut-Kale, Crimea, or,|
11935649X|/articles/10202-luzzatti-luigi|Italian statesman and political economist; born at Venice March 11, 1841; studied at the University of Padua (Doctor of Law 1863) and in Venice.|
117667994|/articles/10214-lyons-israel|English astronomer, botanist, and mathematician; born at Cambridge 1739; died in London 1775; son of Israel Lyons. In his earliest youth he showed a|
1055634126|/articles/10215-lyons-jacques-judah|American minister; son of Judah and Mary Lyons; born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Aug. 25, 1814; died in New York Aug. 12, 1877. He was educated in|
119238683|/articles/10216-lyra-nicolas-de|French exegete; born at Lyre, near Evreux, Normandy, about 1270; died at Paris Oct. 23, 1340. The only certain dates in connection with his life are|
1031501614|/articles/10218-lysias|Syrian statesman of royal descent; died 162 B.C. (I Macc. iii. 32; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 7, § 2). When Antiochus Epiphanes undertook a campaign|
1141203952|/articles/10224-ma-arabi-nahum|Moroccan Hebrew poet and translator of the thirteenth century ("Ma'arabi," "Maghrabi" = "the western" or "the Moroccan"). His poems are found only|
132398575|/articles/10260-maggid-steinschneider-hillel-noah|Russian genealogist and historian; a descendant of the family of Saul Wahl; born at Wilna 1829; died there Oct. 29, 1903. His father was a|
118730185|/articles/10271-magnus-eduard|German painter; born at Berlin Jan. 7, 1799; died there Aug. 8, 1872. After studying successively medicine, architecture, and philosophy, he finally|
118576178|/articles/10272-magnus-heinrich-gustav|German chemist and physicist; born in Berlin May 2, 1802; died there April 4, 1870. He was graduated from the University of Berlin in 1827,|
1057554693|/articles/10273-magnus-lady-katie|English authoress and communal worker; born at Portsmouth May 2, 1844; daughter of E. Emanuel; wife of Sir Philip Magnus. She has been connected|
1034064193|/articles/10274-magnus-laurie|English author and publisher; son of Sir Philip Magnus; born in London in 1872; educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was the Berlin|
100817580|/articles/10275-magnus-ludwig-immanuel|German mathematician; born in Berlin March 15, 1790; died there Sept. 25, 1861; cousin of Heinrich Gustav Magnus. His father died when he was young;|
116678895|/articles/10277-magnus-paul-wilhelm|German botanist; born at Berlin Feb. 29, 1844; educated at the Werdergymnasium and the university of his native city and at the University of|
116678941|/articles/10278-magnus-sir-philip|English educationist; born in London Oct. 7, 1842; educated at University College in that city, and at the University of London (B.A. 1863; B.Sc.|
1110216106|/articles/10288-mahler-arthur|Austrian archeologist; born in Prague Aug. 1, 1871. After completing his studies at the gymnasium in Prague, he studied the history of art and|
116679638|/articles/10289-mahler-eduard|Austrian astronomer; born in Cziffer, Hungary, 1857. He was graduated from the Vienna public school in 1876, and then studied mathematics and|
118576291|/articles/10290-mahler-gustav|Austrian composer; born at Kalischt, Bohemia, July 7, 1860; studied at the gymnasiums at Iglau and Prague, and entered the University of Vienna in|
104104139|/articles/10295-mai-johann-heinrich|German Protestant theologian; born in Pforzheim Feb., 1653; died in Giessen Sept., 1719. In 1689 he became professor in the University of Giessen.|
119101890|/articles/10296-mai-joseph-ben-michael|German printer; born at Dyhernfurth Dec. 29, 1764; died at Breslau Dec. 1, 1810. His father had a printing establishment at Dyhernfurth, to which|
119537958|/articles/10297-maier-joseph-von|German Rabbiner; born in 1797; died at Stuttgart Aug. 19, 1873. He was president of the first Rabbinernical conference held at Brunswick in 1844, and he|
136771556|/articles/10299-maimon-maimun-ben-joseph|Spanish exegete and moralist; born about 1110; father of Moses Maimonides. He studied under Joseph ibn Migash at Lucena, and became a dayyan. He was|
11857647X|/articles/10301-maimon-solomon-ben-joshua|Early Studies. Philosophical writer; born at Nieszwicz, Lithuania, in 1754; died at Niedersiegersdorf, Silesia, Nov. 22, 1800. Endowed with greaty|
133561755|/articles/10306-maison-karl|Bavarian merchant, manufacturer and deputy; born in Oberdorf, Württemberg, Sept. 18, 1840; died in Munich Sept. 29, 1896. He was educated at the|
17407672X|/articles/10307-major-julius|Hungarian composer of music; born Dec. 13, 1859, at Kaschau on the Hernad, chief town of Aber Uj Var district, Hungary. He commenced his studies at|
117741280|/articles/10315-makower-hermann|German jurist; born at Santomischel, Posen, March 8, 1830; died at Berlin April 1, 1898. His father, recognizing the inadequate educational|
142371343|/articles/10323-malachi-b-jacob-ha-kohen|Prominent Talmudist and methodologist of the eighteenth century; the last of the great Rabbinernical authorities of Italy; died before 1790. He was|
139297146|/articles/10325-malbim-meir-lob-ben-jehiel-michael|Russian Rabbiner, preacher, and Hebraist; born at Volochisk, Volhynia, in 1809; died at Kiev Sept. 18, 1879. The name "Malbim" is derived from the|
119046598|/articles/10334-malki-ezra-ben-raphael|Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth century; brother-in-law of Hezekiah de Silva, the author of "Peri Ḥadash." Malki was the author of "Malki|
139707700|/articles/10337-malter-henry|American Rabbiner and scholar; born at Zabno, Galicia, March 23, 1867; educated at the Zabno elementary school, and at the universities of Berlin|
118985140|/articles/10345-manasseh-ben-israel|Dutch polyhistor; born at La Rochelle about 1604 (see Bethen-court in "Jew. Chron." May 20, 1904); died at Middleburg, Netherlands, Nov. 26, 1657.|
12270276X|/articles/10347-manasseh-ben-joseph-of-ilye|Russian Rabbinernical writer and Philosoph; born at Smorgony, government of Wilna, 1767; died at Ilye, in the same government, 1831. At seven years|
10651797X|/articles/10351-mandelkern-solomon-b-simhah-dob|Russian poet and author; born in Mlynov, Volhynia, 1846; died in Vienna March 24, 1902. He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he|
138562741|/articles/10353-mandelstamm-benjamin-b-joseph|Russian Hebraist and author; born in Zhagory about the end of the eighteenth century; died in Simferopol May 8, 1886. He was the eldest of several|
133535568|/articles/10354-mandelstamm-leon-aryeh-lob-b-joseph|Russian Hebraist, poet, and educator; born in Zhagory, government of Kovno, in 1809; died in St. Petersburg Sept. 12, 1889. He was the fourth son of|
117541184|/articles/10357-mandl-ludwig-lazar|Hungarian anatomist and pathologist; born at Budapest Dec., 1812; died in Paris July 5, 1881; educated at Vienna and Budapest (M.D. 1836). He then|
118730630|/articles/10362-manetti-giannozzo|Italian statesman and Christian Hebraist; born in Florence 1396; died at Naples Oct. 26, 1459. At the suggestion of Pope Nicholas V., who had made|
126905142|/articles/10370-mannheimer-isaac-noah|Jewish preacher; born at Copenhagen Oct. 17, 1793; died at Vienna March 17, 1865. The son of a ḥazzan, he began the study of the Talmud at an early|
141099399|/articles/10372-mannheimer-sigmund|American educator; born at Kemel, Hesse-Nassau, May 16, 1835. Educated at the teachers' seminary at Ems, Nassau, he became teacher in the Jewish|
142380547|/articles/10375-manoah-b-shemariah-handel|Polish author; born at Brzeszticzka (), Volhynia; died in 1612. He was the author of the following works: "Ḥokmat Manoaḥ," glosses to the|
119752476|/articles/10379-mantino-jacob-ben-samuel|Italian physician; died at Damascus in 1549. His parents—and perhaps Mantino himself—were natives of Tortosa, Spain, which place they left at the|
116736550|/articles/10382-manuel-eugene|French educator and poet; born at Paris July 13, 1823; died there June 1, 1901. A grandson on his mother's side of the famous Paris ḥazzan Lovy, he|
123119235|/articles/10385-mapu-abraham|Russian Hebrew novelist; born near Kovno Jan. 10, 1808; died at Königsberg Oct. 9, 1867. Mapu introduced the novel into Hebrew literature. His early|
104048182|/articles/10392-marc-charles-chretien-henri|French physician; born in Amsterdam Nov. 4, 1771, died in Paris Jan. 12, 1841. He took the degree of M.D. at Erlangen in 1792, and practised at|
118951122|/articles/10394-marcello-benedetto|Italian musician; born at Venice 1686; died there 1739. He is particularly celebrated for his settings to the Psalms, fifty of which, under the|
1050598032|/articles/10397-marcus-lewi-lewin|German lawyer; born Oct. 15, 1809, at Rhena, Mecklenburg; died Oct. 7, 1881, at Manchester, England. On account of his indefatigable exertions in|
116767855|/articles/10399-marcuse-adolf|German astronomer; born Nov. 17, 1860, in Magdeburg; educated at the universities of Strasburg and Berlin (Ph.D. 1884). Before his graduation he|
119060825|/articles/10400-marczali-heinrich|Hungarian historian; born at Marczali April 3, 1856; educated at Raab, Papa, Budapest, Berlin, and Paris. In 1878 he became professor at the|
132478765|/articles/10401-maretzek-max|Austrian impresario; born at Brünn, Moravia, June 28, 1821; died at Pleasant Plains, New York, May 14, 1897. He was a pupil of Seyfried in Vienna,|
12430575X|/articles/10404-margarita-antonius|Convert to Christianity in the first half of the sixteenth century; born about 1500 at Ratisbon (Regensburg), where his father, Jacob Margolioth,|
1024157202|/articles/10406-margolis-isaac-ben-eliah|Russo-Polish Rabbiner and author; born in Kalvariya, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1842; died in New York Aug. 1, 1887; son of the Rabbiner of|
116771011|/articles/10407-margolis-max-leopold|American philologist; born at Meretz, government of Wilna, Russia, Oct. 15, 1866; son of Isaac Margolis; educated at the elementary school of his|
137929889|/articles/10410-margulies-samuel-hirsch|Rabbi; born at Brzezan, Galicia, Oct. 9, 1858; a descendant of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolioth; educated at the theological seminary at Breslau. He|
11678251X|/articles/10422-markens-isaac|American writer; born in New York city Oct. 9, 1846; son of Elias Markens, a linguist and Orientalist. Isaac Markens was educated in the public|
1055165975|/articles/10424-marks-david-woolf|The "father" of Anglo-Jewish Reform; born in London Nov. 22, 1811; educated at the Jews' Free School, London. He acted as pupil-teacher at Solomon's|
116783710|/articles/10428-markus-ludwig|German Orientalist; born in Dessau Oct. 31, 1798; died in Paris July 15, 1843. He attended the Franzschule and the ducal gymnasium in Dessau; he was|
137363389|/articles/10430-marmorek-alexander|Austrian physician; born at Mielnica, Galicia, Feb. 19, 1865; educated at a gymnasium and at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1887). He removed to|
119365561|/articles/10431-marmorek-oskar|Austrian architect; brother of Alexander Marmorek; born at Skirta, Galicia, April 9, 1863. He studied at the polytechnic high school at Vienna and|
129410748|/articles/10439-marshall-louis|American lawyer and communal worker; born at Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1856; educated at the Syracuse high school and at the Columbia College Law|
118597906|/articles/10440-martin-raymund|Spanish Christian theologian; born in the first half of the thirteenth century at Subirats in Catalonia; died after 1284. In 1250 he was selected by|
116810653|/articles/10441-martinet-adam|German Catholic Orientalist; born in Höchstädt, near Bamberg, in Jan., 1800; date of death uncertain. Martinet, who was a professor in the lyceum of|
119065290|/articles/10448-marx-adolf-bernhard|German musical writer; born at Halle May 15, 1799; died at Berlin May 17, 1866. He had studied music for some time with D. S. Türk when his father,|
116814918|/articles/10449-marx-berthe|French pianist; born at Paris July 28, 1859. She began to study the pianoforte at the age of four, receiving her first instruction from her father,|
132630184|/articles/10451-marx-jacob|German physician; born in Bonn 1743; died in Hanover Jan. 24, 1789; studied medicine in Halle (M. D. 1765). He traveled for scientific purposes in|
118578537|/articles/10452-marx-karl|German socialistic leader and political economist; born at Treves May 5, 1818; died in London March 14, 1883. His father, a practising attorney at|
124324770|/articles/10453-marx-roger|French art critic; born in Nancy Aug 28, 1859. In 1878 he went to Paris, where he wrote for various theater and art journals. In 1883 he became art,|
116106166|/articles/10456-marzroth|Austrian author; born in Vienna March 21, 1818; died at Salzburg in 1888. After leaving the University of Vienna in 1844 he entered the field of|
1013003535|/articles/10463-maskileison-naphtali|Russian Hebrew author and book-dealer; born at Radashkovichi, near Minsk, Feb. 20, 1829; died at Minsk Nov. 19, 1897. His father, R. Abraham|
14216237X|/articles/10464-masliansky-zebi-hirsch-b-hayyim|Russian preacher; born in Slutsk, government of Minsk, June 6, 1856. He received a thorough Rabbinernical education, spending two years in the yeshibah|
104152311|/articles/10468-massarani-tullo|Italian senator, author, and painter; born at Mantua in 1826. He studied law at Pavia and took an active part in the Italian revolution of 1848,|
114722708X|/articles/10470-massel-joseph|Russian Jewish Hebraist; born at Ujasin, government of Wilna, 1850. He emigrated to England in the nineties and settled at Manchester, where he|
1053151179|/articles/10484-mattersdorf-joab-ben-jeremiah|Hungarian Rabbiner; died about 1807. Through the influence of Aaron Chorin, a disciple of his father, he became Rabbiner of Deutschkreuz, near|
100305318|/articles/10485-matthai-simeon-adam-rudolf-georg|German convert to Christianity; born at Fürth 1715; died at Nuremberg 1779. After having studied Talmud at Prague under his father, Jaidel, who was|
132083795|/articles/10493-mattithiah-ben-moses-ben-mattithiah|Spanish Talmudist; lived toward the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was a member of the Yiẓhari family of|
116856270|/articles/10497-maurice-charles|Theatrical director; born at Agen, France, May 29, 1805; died in Hamburg Jan. 27, 1896. Maurice, who was of French descent, was educated in his|
118579304|/articles/10500-mauthner-fritz|Austrian poet, novelist, and satirist; born in Horitz, Bohemia, Nov. 22, 1849. He attended the Piarist gymnasium in Prague and then ostensibly|
1020912219|/articles/10501-mauthner-julius|Austrian chemist; born in Vienna Sept. 26, 1852; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1879), where he became privatdocent in experimental medical|
102661960|/articles/10502-mauthner-ludwig|Austrian ophthalmologist; born in Prague April 13, 1840; died in Vienna Oct. 20, 1894; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1861). He was|
116858311|/articles/10503-mautner-eduard|German author and journalist; born at Budapest Nov. 13, 1824; died in Baden, near Vienna, July 2, 1889. His father, who was a merchant in Budapest,|
116859326|/articles/10510-maybaum-siegmund|Rabbi in Berlin; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, April 29, 1844. He received his education at the yeshibot of Eisenstadt and Presburg, at the lyceum in|
1022868926|/articles/10515-mayer-henry|American caricaturist; born at Worms July 18, 1868. Mayer is the son of a Jewish merchant of London, but was educated at Worms. In 1885 he went to|
1012574997|/articles/10517-mayer-samuel|German Rabbiner and lawyer; born at Hechingen Jan. 3, 1807; died there Aug. 1, 1875. He studied at the Talmud Torah in his native town, entered the bet|
1020248807|/articles/10518-mayer-sigmund|Austrian physician; born at Bechtheim, Rhein-Hessen, Dec. 27, 1842. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Giessen, and Tübingen (M.D. 1865)|
128540109|/articles/10526-mccaul-alexander|English Christian missionary and author; born at Dublin May 16, 1799; died at London Nov. 13, 1863. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.|
122548981|/articles/10587-me-iri-menahem-ben-solomon|Provençal Talmudist and commentator; born at Perpignan in 1249; died there in 1306; his Provençal name was Don Vidal Solomon. He was a disciple of|
130644633|/articles/10548-medini-hayyim-hezekiah|Palestinian Rabbinernical writer; born at Jerusalem 1833; son of Rabbi Raphael Eliahu Medini. At the age of nineteen, on completing his studies in his|
117554677|/articles/10559-meier-moritz-hermann-eduard|German philologist; born at Glogau, Silesia, Jan. 1, 1796; died at Halle Dec. 5, 1855. He was educated at the Graue Kloster in Berlin and at the|
138259828|/articles/10561-meinek-moses-sakel|German scholar and editor; lived at Offenbach at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He published in 1715, under his own name, Naphtali|
100961754|/articles/10582-meir-ben-samuel-ram|French tosafist; born about 1060 in Ramerupt; died after 1135. His father was an eminent scholar. Meïr received his education in the Talmudical|
119136392|/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch|German tosafist, codifier, and liturgical poet; born at Worms about 1215; died in the fortress of Ensisheim, Alsace, May 2 (April 27 old style),|
119119021|/articles/10591-meisels-dob-berush-b-isaac|Polish Rabbiner and statesman; born in Szezekoeiny about 1800; died in Warsaw March 17, 1870. He was a scion of one of the oldest families in Cracow,|
120890658|/articles/10606-melo-david-abenatar|Rabbi and poet; born in Spain about 1550. His translation of some of the Psalms into Spanish verse brought him under the suspicion of the|
116629746|/articles/10608-mels-alfred|German author; born at Berlin April 15, 1831; died at Summerdale, near Chicago, July 22, 1894. He studied at the University of Berlin, but in 1848|
123798760|/articles/10610-melville-lewis-lewis-s-benjamin|English author; born in 1874. He is the author of the following works: "Life of Thackeray" (1899); "Thackeray's Stray Papers" (1902); "In the World|
121059286|/articles/10620-menahem-b-aaron-ibn-zerah|Spanish codifier; born in Navarre, probably at Estella, in the first third of the fourteenth century; died at Toledo July, 1385. His father, forced|
1052591973|/articles/10630-menahem-ben-joseph-of-troyes|Liturgical compiler; lived at Troyes in the thirteenth century, succeeding his father, Joseph Ḥazzan ben Judah, as ḥazzan. The Jewish liturgy is|
12105909X|/articles/10643-menahem-ben-saruk-menahem-b-jacob-ibn-saruk|Spanish philologist of the tenth century. He was a native of Tortosa, and went, apparently at an early age, to Cordova, where he found a patron in|
1053045921|/articles/10644-menahem-ben-simeon|French Biblical commentator at the end of the twelfth century; a native of Posquières and a pupil of Joseph Ḳimḥi. The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris|
119269112|/articles/10656-mendel-emanuel|German physician; born at Bunzlau, Silesia, Oct. 28, 1839; educated at the universities of Breslau, Vienna, and Berlin (M.D. 1860). In 1861 he took|
116876786|/articles/10658-mendel-hermann|Music publisher and writer; born at Halle Aug. 6, 1834; died at Berlin Oct. 26, 1876. He received his musical education at Halle, Leipsic, and|
117561150|/articles/10661-mendelsohn-martin|German physician; born at Posen Dec. 16, 1860; studied medicine at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin (M.D. 1885). After a year spent in Paris,|
138406855|/articles/10664-mendelson-moses|German Hebraist andwriter of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; born in Hamburg; died there at an advanced age in 1861; a relative of Samson|
1055192557|/articles/10672-mendes-mendez-moses|English poet and dramatist; born in London; died at Old Buckenham, Norfolk, Feb. 4, 1758; son of James Mendes, a stock-broker of Mitcham, Surrey,|
118783203|/articles/10668-mendes-catulle|French poet, dramatist, and art critic; born at Bordeaux May 22, 1841. Educated in his native city, he went in 1859 to Paris, where he has since|
128314427|/articles/10671-mendes-maurits-benjamin-da-costa|Dutch philologist; born at Amsterdam May 16, 1851; entered the Athenæum (now the University) there in 1867 and studied classic philology. An|
119080877|/articles/10674-mendesia-gracia|Philanthropist; born about 1510, probably in Portugal; died at Constantinople 1569; member of the Spanish family of Benveniste. As a Maranoshe was|
118783270|/articles/10681-mengs-anton-rafael|Austrian painter; born in Aussig, Bohemia, March 12, 1728; died in Rome June 29, 1779; son of Ismael Israel Mengs. Anton Mengs was early destined|
123589959|/articles/10682-mengs-ismael-israel|Danish portrait-painter; born in Copenhagen 1690; died in Dresden Dec. 26, 1765. He learned the art of miniature- and enamel-painting in Lübeck, and|
119233509|/articles/10684-menken-ada-isaacs|Anglo-American actress and writer; born June 15, 1835, at Milneburg, La.; died in Paris, France, Aug. 10, 1868. Her first appearance before the|
12222311X|/articles/10705-merzbacher-abraham|German Bankier; born 1812 at Baiersdorf near Erlangen; died June 4, 1885, at Munich. He at first intended to follow a Rabbinernical career; but after an|
102613157X|/articles/10715-meshullam-ben-jonah|Physician and translator of the thirteenth century. It appears that he lived in southern France. He occupied himself with medicine merely as a|
1043833129|/articles/10744-metz-isaac|German scholar; lived at Hamburg in the first half of the nineteenth century. He compiled a catalogue, entitled "Ḳehillat Dawid," of David|
116958839|/articles/10745-metzler-lowy-pauline|Austrian contralto singer; born at Theresienstadt, Bohemia, Aug. 31, 1853. At the age of seven she entered the Prague Conservatorium, where she|
1152949381|/articles/10747-meyer-adolph|American congressman; born at New Orleans, La., Oct. 19, 1842. He was a student at the University of Virginia when the Civil war broke out; and in|
104368780|/articles/10749-meyer-annie|American writer; born in New York city Feb. 19, 1867. She early revealed literary gifts, and articles from her pen appeared in "The Critic,"|
104168870|/articles/10751-meyer-david-amsel|Danish financier; born in Copenhagen Jan. 18, 1753; died there Aug. 30, 1813. Meyer started in business for himself at a very early age, and during|
1055109633|/articles/10752-meyer-edvard|Danish journalist and author; born Aug. 6, 1813, in Copenhagen; died there Aug. 4, 1880. He was the son of very poor parents and received little or|
122994957|/articles/10753-meyer-ernst|Danish genre painter; born May 11, 1797, at Altona, Sleswick-Holstein; died in Rome Feb. 1, 1861. He studied at the Academy of Arts and in|
140852654|/articles/10756-meyer-louis|Polish poet; born in the village of Sluzewo (Sluzhew), government of Warsaw, Russian Poland, 1796; died March 25, 1869. He was sent in 1810 by his|
117565059|/articles/10757-meyer-ludwig|German psychiatrist; born at Bielefeld Dec. 27, 1827; died at Göttingen Feb. 8, 1900. He studied medicine at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, and|
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119551667|/articles/10760-meyer-m-wilhelm|German astronomer; born at Brunswick Feb. 15, 1853. He first engaged in the book-trade, but soon gave it up and pursued astronomical studies at the|
138371148|/articles/10759-meyer-moritz|German physician; born at Berlin Nov. 10, 1821; died there Oct. 30, 1893. After studying at the universities of Heidelberg, Halle, and Berlin (M.D.|
101141769|/articles/10761-meyer-rachel|German authoress; born in Danzig March 11, 1806; died in Berlin Feb. 8, 1874. A few years after the death of her sister Frederika, she married the|
13726139X|/articles/10762-meyer-samuel|German Rabbiner; born in Hanover Feb. 26, 1819; died there July 5, 1882. He studied Talmud in his native city and at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and|
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119034646|/articles/10764-meyer-victor|German chemist; born in Berlin Sept. 8, 1848; died in Heidelberg in 1897. He was inclined toward literature and the stage, when a visit to his elder|
118581945|/articles/10765-meyerbeer-giacomo|German composer; born at Berlin Sept. 5, 1791; died at Paris May 2, 1864. His real name was Jakob Liebmann Beer; but he changed it when his|
1146051875|/articles/10769-meza-christian-jacob-theophilus-de|Danish physician and author; born in Copenhagen Nov. 26, 1756; died there April 6, 1844. He was a son of the physician Christian de Meza, together|
1055423788|/articles/10770-meza-christian-julius-frederik-solomon-de|Danish physician; born in Amsterdam Sept. 4, 1727; died in Copenhagen June, 1800. Meza, who was the son of a Portuguese Rabbiner, Abraham de Meza,|
1103535013|/articles/10773-mezey-franz|Hungarian juristand author; born at Acsad Feb. 5, 1860. His parents had destined him for a Rabbinernical career, but after reaching maturity and|
137299273|/articles/10781-michael-heimann-joseph|Hebrew bibliographer; born at Hamburg April 12, 1792; died there June 10, 1846. He showed great acuteness of mind in early childhood, had a|
117013420|/articles/10782-michael-isaac|German laryngologist; born at Hamburg Nov. 16, 1848; died there Jan. 7, 1897. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipsic, Berlin, and|
117013455|/articles/10784-michael-max|German painter; born in Hamburg March 23, 1823; died at Berlin March 24, 1891. He studied art first at the Kunst-Akademie in Dresden, then for five|
118783726|/articles/10789-michaelis-johann-david|Christian Orientalist and polyhistor; born at Halle Feb. 27, 1717; died at Göttingen Aug. 22, 1791; grandnephew of Johann Heinrich Michaelis. He was|
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118783750|/articles/10794-michelson-albert-a|American physicist; born at Strelno, in the district of Bromberg, Prussia, Dec. 19, 1852. His father, Samuel Michelson, emigrated to the United|
138382468|/articles/10817-mielziner-moses|American Rabbiner and author; born at Schubin, province of Posen, Germany, Aug. 12, 1828; died at Cincinnati Feb. 18, 1903. His father, Benjamin, Rabbiner|
135990041|/articles/10818-mieses|A family of German and Austrian scholars of the nineteenth century, of which the following are prominent members:Fabius Mieses: Galician litterateur|
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11757791X|/articles/10837-millaud-arthur-paul-david-albert|French journalist and playwright; born at Paris in 1836; died there Oct. 22, 1892; son of Moïse Millaud. When only eighteen years of age he|
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11757824X|/articles/10842-milman-henry-hart|Historian; born in London Feb. 10, 1791; died there Sept. 24, 1868. His career at Oxford was a brilliant one. He first became known through his|
117578673|/articles/10856-minkowski-oscar|German physician; born at Alexoten, near Kovno, Russia, Jan. 13, 1858; educated at the universities of Freiburg, Strasburg, and Königsberg (M.D.|
118582682|/articles/10868-mirabeau-gabriel-honore-riqueti-comte-de|French statesman of the revolutionary era; born at Bignon March 9, 1749; died at Paris April 2, 1791. Sent by De Calonne on a secret mission to|
1020439858|/articles/10873-mires-jules-isaac|French financier; born at Bordeaux Dec. 9, 1809; died at Marseilles in 1871. A broker in 1848, he became, after the February Revolution of that|
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12434397X|/articles/10908-modigliani-elia|Italian traveler, naturalist, and author; born at Florence June 13, 1861; graduated at Pavia in 1883. From early youth he showed a marked|
132978172|/articles/10917-mogulesko-sigmund-selig|American comedian; born in Kaloraush, Bessarabia, Dec. 16, 1858; now residing in New York. He possessed a fine voice from early youth, and was the|
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118813935|/articles/10934-moll-albert|German physician; born at Lissa May 4, 1862; educated at the universities ofBreslau, Freiburg, Jena, and Berlin (M.D. 1885). During the following|
118583425|/articles/10939-mommsen-christian-matthias-theodor|Jurist, archeologist, and historian; born Nov. 30, 1817, at Garding, Sleswick-Holstein; died Nov. 1, 1903, at Charlottenburg, near Berlin. His most|
118784536|/articles/10943-mond-ludwig|English chemist; born at Cassel, Germany, March 7, 1839; educated at the Polytechnic School, Cassel, and at the universities of Marburg and|
1072327724|/articles/10948-monis-judah|American scholar. Hannah Adams in her "History of the Jews" says that he was born in Algiers about 1683, and that he died in Northborough, Mass., in|
118583786|/articles/10968-montoro-anton-de|Spanish poet of the fifteenth century; born in Montoro 1404; died after March, 1477; son of Fernando Alfonso de Baena Ventura, and a near relative|
117135909|/articles/10977-morais-henry-samuel|American writer and minister; born May 13, 1860, at Philadelphia, Pa.; educated at private and public schools of that city. He received his|
116834641X|/articles/10978-morais-sabato|Early Years. American Rabbiner; born at Leghorn, Italy, April 13, 1823; died at Philadelphia Nov. 11, 1897. He was the elder son and the third of nine|
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1053244177|/articles/10996-mordecai-ben-jehiel-michael-ha-levi|Russian grammarian and ab bet din of Slawatyetz-on-the-Bug; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Mera Dakya"|
1121512488|/articles/10999-mordecai-ben-judah-aryeh-lob-ashkenazi|Dutch ritualist; lived in Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Rovigo, whose commentary to the|
118584057|/articles/11015-morgenstern-karl|German landscape-painter; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 25, 1812; died there Jan. 10, 1893. He received his education in art in the Munich|
119452480|/articles/11016-morgenstern-lina|Multifarious Activity. German authoress and communal worker; born in Breslau Nov. 25, 1830. The Revolution of 1848 led her to interest herself in|
1131289757|/articles/11021-morosini-giulio-samuel-ben-nahmias-b-david-b-isaac-b-david-ba-al-teshubah|Italian convert from Judaism to Christianity; born at Venice 1612; died in 1687. He was descended from a wealthy family which traced its ancestry|
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130508098|/articles/11031-morteira-mortera-saul-levi|Dutch Rabbiner of Portuguese descent; born about 1596 at Venice; died at Amsterdam Feb. 10, 1660. In a Spanish poem Daniel Levi de Barrios speaks of|
1055642684|/articles/11034-morton-martha|American playwright; born Oct. 10, 1865, in New York city; educated in the public schools and at the Normal College. Among her contributions to the|
13800840X|/articles/11035-morwitz-edward|American physician and journalist; born at Danzig, Prussia, June 11, 1815; settled in Philadelphia 1850; died there Dec. 13, 1893. He was given a|
119233665|/articles/11038-moscheles-felix|English artist; born in London Feb. 8, 1833; studied painting in Paris and Antwerp, and exhibited his first pictures in those cities. Later he was|
118785028|/articles/11039-moscheles-ignaz|Austrian pianist; born at Prague May 30, 1794; died at Leipsic March 10, 1870. After a short course with Zadrahka and Horzelsky, his talent in 1804|
118584375|/articles/11045-mosen-moses-julius|German poet; born at Marieney, Saxony, July 3, 1803; died at Oldenburg Oct. 10, 1867. He was educated at Plauen, and studied law at the University|
101363184|/articles/11046-mosenthal-solomon-hermann-von|Austrian dramatist and poet; born at Cassel, Hesse-Nassau, Germany, Jan. 14, 1821; died at Vienna Feb. 17, 1877. He attended the gymnasium at Cassel|
116939060|/articles/11048-moser-moses|German merchant known as a friend of Heine; born 1796; died at Berlin Aug. 15, 1838. He was educated for a business career, and was for a time an|
1147240531|/articles/11063-moses-b-asher|Masorite; father of Aaron; generally called Ben Asher; lived at Tiberias in the second half of the ninth century. His father, Asher, was a|
1077263015|/articles/11058-moses-ben-abraham-provencal|Rabbi of Mantua about the middle of the sixteenth century. In opposition to the opinion of Meïr Katzenellenbogen of Padua and of others, he gave his|
119014556|/articles/11093-moses-ben-isaac-gajo-of-rieti|Italian physician, Philosoph, and poet; born at Rieti in 1388; died at Rome about 1460. After having received instruction in Talmud and Hebrew|
118884824|/articles/11109-moses-ben-joshua-of-narbonne-maestro-vidal-blasom|French Philosoph and physician; born at Perpignan at the end of the thirteenth century; died after 1362. His education in philosophy began at the|
118576488|/articles/11124-moses-ben-maimon|V09p073001.jpgTraditional Portrait of Moses ben Maimon, with Autograph.Talmudist, Philosoph, astronomer, and physician; born at Cordova March 30,|
118586157|/articles/11129-moses-ben-nahman-gerondi|Precocious Development. Spanish Talmudist, exegete, and physician; born at Gerona (whence his name "Gerondi") in 1194 (Gans, "Ẓemaḥ Dawid," p. 50,|
1103851314|/articles/11076-moses-eliakim-beri-ah-ben-israel|Polish preacher; born at Cozienice; died there in 1825. He wrote "Be'er Mosheh" (Jusefow, n.d.), homilies arranged according to the parashiyyot of|
142808660|/articles/11073-moses-ha-darshan|French exegete; lived at Narbonne about the middle of the eleventh century. According to a manuscript in the possession of the Alliance Israélite|
104129166|/articles/11135-moses-of-palermo|Sicilian translator from the Arabic into Latin; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century. According to a document preserved in the|
117604089|/articles/11170-mosler-henry|American genre painter; born in New York city June 6, 1841. He was taken to Cincinnati when a child and began to study art at the age of ten. In|
1055642714|/articles/11172-moss-mary|American authoress; born at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24, 1864. Since 1902 she has been a prolific contributor of fiction and essays|
102909156|/articles/11174-mosse-markus|German physician; born Aug. 3, 1808, at Grätz, in the province of Posen; died there Nov. 10, 1865. On account of his eminent ability and popularity|
118785109|/articles/11175-mosse-rudolf|German publisher and philanthropist; son of Dr. Markus Moses; born May 8, 1843, at Grätz, Posen. He began his career as an apprentice in the|
116941391|/articles/11179-moszkowski-moritz|German pianist and composer; born Aug. 23, 1854, at Breslau, where he received his early musical education. After a further course of musical|
1089689276|/articles/11185-motot-samuel-ben-sa-adias-ibn|Spanish commentator and translator; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century in Guadalajara, where he probably was born. The spelling of|
1106581741|/articles/11186-motot-simeon-ben-moses-ben-simeon|Jewish mathematician of the fifteenth century; probably lived in Lombardy. No Jewish author mentions him, nor is anything known of his life. That he|
138541426|/articles/11188-motta-jacob-de-la|American physician; son of Emanuel de la Motta; born about 1789; died at Charleston, S. C., Feb. 13, 1845. He studied medicine, and was made a|
13790195X|/articles/11201-muhr-abraham|German philanthropist; born at Berlin April 7, 1781; died at Breslau June 12, 1847. In addition to a thorough course in Hebrew literature, he|
13402995X|/articles/11202-muhr-julius|German genre painter; born at Plesse, Silesia, June 21, 1819; died at Munich in 1865. He studied first at the Academy of Berlin, and afterward|
137682972|/articles/11204-muhsam-samuel|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, May 22, 1837. He received his education at the gymnasium at Oppeln and the universities of|
173833446|/articles/11207-mulder-samuel-israel|Dutch educationist; born at Amsterdam June 20, 1792; died there Dec. 29, 1862. He was educated by his father and by David Friedrichsfeld, and then|
11757547X|/articles/11210-muller-david-heinrich|Austrian Orientalist; born July 6, 1846, at Buczacz, Galicia. He studied in Vienna, Leipsic, Strasburg, and Berlin, and became professor of Oriental|
139570039|/articles/11211-muller-gabriel|Dayyan at Mattersdorf, Hungary; born Oct. 3, 1836, at Nadas. He received much of his education in his father's (Ḥayyim Müller's) yeshibah, and in|
138105324|/articles/11212-muller-joel|German Rabbiner and Talmudist; born 1827 at Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1895. He received a thorough Talmudic training and|
100533876|/articles/11218-munk-eduard|German philologist; born Jan. 14, 1803, at Gross Glogau; died there May 3, 1871; cousin of Salomon Munk. He studied from 1822 to 1825 at Breslau and|
117185930|/articles/11219-munk-hermann|German physiologist; born at Posen Feb. 3, 1839; brother of Immanuel Munk; educated at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen (M.D. 1859). In 1860|
117610240|/articles/11220-munk-immanuel|German physiologist; born at Posen May 20, 1852; died in Berlin Aug. 1, 1900; brother of Hermann Munk. He studied medicine at the universities of|
117185957|/articles/11221-munk-salomon|At Paris. French Orientalist; born at Gross Glogau May 14, 1803; died in Paris Feb. 5, 1867. He received his first instruction in Hebrew from his|
118585517|/articles/11223-munster-sebastian|German Hebraist and cosmographer; born 1489 at Ingelheim; died at Basel May 23, 1552. He was educated at Heidelberg and Tübingen, and became a|
117178942|/articles/11225-munz-bernhard|Austrian writer; born Feb. 1, 1856, at Leipnik, Moravia; educated at the University of Vienna (Ph.D. 1877). After leaving that university he|
117179027|/articles/11227-munz-sigmund|Austrian writer; brother of Bernhard Münz; born at Leipnik, Moravia, May 7, 1859; studied at the universities of Vienna and Tübingen (Ph.D. Vienna,|
104268921|/articles/11244-mussafia-musaphia-benjamin-ben-immanuel|Physician and philologist of the seventeenth century, who in his Latin work on medicine calls himself Dionysius; born about 1606, probably in Spain;|
11718912X|/articles/11243-mussafia-adolf|Austrian Romance philologist; born at Spalato, Dalmatia, Feb. 15, 1835. At first intended for the medical profession, he became an instructor in|
136770649|/articles/11296-nahum-menahem-of-chernobyl|asidic leader in the last part of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Baer of Meseritz, by whom he was sent to Galicia to disseminate the|
118586408|/articles/11320-napoleon-bonaparte|Emperor of the French; born in Ajaccio, Corsica, Aug. 15, 1769; died at St. Helena in 1821. Only those incidents in his career need be noticed here|
1025762967|/articles/11326-narol-moses|Rabbi of Metz; father of the physician Tobias Cohn; died at Metz in 1659. Narol was Rabbiner and physician at Narol, Galicia, but fled to Germany|
1077204477|/articles/11342-nathalie-zaire-martel|French actress; born at Tournon, Seine-et-Marne, Sept. 3, 1816; died Nov. 17, 1885. She made her début at the Folies Dramatiques, Paris, in 1837 as|
105540953X|/articles/11355-nathan-b-isaac-jacob-bonn|Rabbi at Mayence, and later at Hamburg, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Shikḥat Leḳeṭ," a supplement to the "Yalḳuṭ|
102414815|/articles/11359-nathan-ben-jehiel|His Travels. Italian lexicographer; born in Rome not later than 1035; died in 1106. He belonged to one of the most notable Roman families of Jewish|
124072135|/articles/11361-nathan-ben-joseph-official|French Rabbiner and controversialist; lived at Sens in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was one of the most famous Rabbiners of France in the|
102450013|/articles/11350-nathan-elias-salomon|German physician and author; born at Eutin about 1806; died at Hamburg July 5, 1862; educated at Kiel (M.D. 1830). He took part in the Polish|
134838378|/articles/11354-nathan-isaac|English musician and composer; born at Canterbury, England, in 1792; died at Sydney, N. S. W., Jan. 15, 1864. He was intended for the ministry and|
138474273|/articles/14972-wolf-abraham-nathan|German scholar; born at Dessau in 1751; died there in 1784. On account of his liberal views he was highly esteemed by Moses Mendelssohn, but when he|
101452654X|/articles/11376-nathanson-bernhard|Russian-Hebrew journalist and author; born at Satanow, Podolia, April 15, 1832. He received his early Hebrew education under J. Z. Polichinetzki,|
136921388|/articles/11378-nathanson-joseph-saul|Polish Rabbiner and author; born at Berzan 1808; died at Lemberg March 4, 1875; son of Aryeh Lebush Nathanson, Rabbiner at Berzan and author of "Bet El."|
13014133X|/articles/11380-nathanson-mendel-levin|Danish merchant, editor, and economist; born in Altona Nov. 20, 1780; died in Copenhagen Oct. 6, 1868. When only eighteen years of age Nathanson|
103928146|/articles/11386-naumbourg-samuel|French composer; born at Dennenlohe, Bavaria, March 15, 1817; died at Saint-Mandé, near Paris, May 1, 1880. After having held the office of ḥazzan|
1089712170|/articles/11387-naumburg-jacob|Rabbi of Mayence and Offenbach at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the grandson of Jonah Te'omim, the author of "Ḳiḳayon de-Yonah."|
118738240|/articles/11400-neander-johann-august-wilhelm|German Church historian; born at Göttingen Jan. 17, 1789; died at Berlin July 14, 1850. Prior to his baptism his name was "David Mendel," and on his|
118738380|/articles/11434-neisser-albert|German dermatologist; born at Schweidnitz Jan. 22, 1855. His father, Moritz Neisser, was physician and "Geheimer Sanitätsrat" at Charlottenbrunn.|
116910364|/articles/11436-nemenyi-neumann-ambrosius|Hungarian deputy; born at Peczel 1852; died in Budapest Dec. 13, 1904; studied law at Vienna and Paris (LL.D., Budapest). Till 1871 he was known by|
118586998|/articles/11445-nero|Roman emperor; born at Antium Dec. 15, 37 C.E.; died near Rome in 68. His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, but on being adopted by the|
133927083|/articles/11452-netter-charles|French philanthropist; born at Strasburg in 1828; died at Jaffa, Palestine, Oct. 2, 1882. He studied at Strasburg and Belfort, and then engaged in|
1055191135|/articles/11457-neuberg-joseph|English litterateur; secretary to Thomas Carlyle; born at Würzburg, Bavaria, May 21, 1806; died in London March 23, 1867. At first he entered into|
117551058|/articles/11459-neuburger-max|Austrian physician; born Dec. 8, 1868, at Vienna, at whose university he studied medicine (M.D. 1893). After three years of hospital service he|
137306849|/articles/11463-neufeld-daniel|Polish writer; born at Praszka, government of Kalisz, 1814; died at Warsaw in 1874. His activity was confined to his birth-place and later to|
11695468X|/articles/11464-neugebauer-ladislaus|Hungarian writer; born at Budapest Feb. 22, 1845. After studying at Budapest and Vienna he entered the service of the Austro-Hungarian Bank at|
131423592|/articles/11466-neumann-abraham|Russian Rabbiner; born at Gerolzhofen, near Würzburg, 1809; died at St. Petersburg Aug. 22, 1875. In 1822 he studied Talmud at the yeshibah of Fürth|
116956739|/articles/11467-neumann-angelo|Austrian theatrical director; born at Vienna Aug. 18, 1838. Neumann went upon the stage in 1859, as a barytone, appearing at Cologne, Cracow,|
116962259|/articles/11469-neumann-carl-friedrich|German Orientalist and historian; born at Reichmansdorf, near Bamberg, Dec. 22, 1798; died in Berlin March 17, 1870. His parents were named|
117551430|/articles/11471-neumann-isidor|Austrian dermatologist; born at Misslitz, Moravia, March 2, 1832; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1858). He became privat-docent in 1861;|
142468045|/articles/11472-neumann-moses-samuel|Hungarian poet; born at Ban, Hungary, in 1769; died at Budapest Nov. 29, 1831; son of a poor cantor who died prematurely. When hardly more than a|
118738658|/articles/11473-neumann-salomon|German physician and statistician; born at Pyritz, Pomerania, Oct.22, 1819; studied medicine at Berlin and Halle (M.D. 1842). He has practised as a|
130124141|/articles/11478-neurath-wilhelm|Austrian economist; born at St. Georgen May 31, 1840. After winning his doctor's degree he became privat-docent at the Technische Hochschule in|
116985283|/articles/11482-neustatter-louis|German portrait- and genre-painter; born in Munich Sept. 5, 1829; died in Tutzing, on the Starnbergersee, May 24, 1899. Neustätter studied first|
109548706X|/articles/11514-neymarck-alfred|French economist and statistician; born at Châlons-sur-Marne Jan. 3, 1848. He was editor of the "Revue Contemporaine" in 1868-69, and in 1869|
133588254|/articles/11534-nierop-frederik-salomon-van|Dutch economist; born at Amsterdam March 6, 1844. He took his degree as doctor of law at Leyden in 1866, established himself as a lawyer at|
142803723|/articles/11535-nieto-david|Haham of the Sephardic community in London; born at Venice 1654; died in London Jan. 10, 1728. He first practised as a physician and officiated as a|
117022861|/articles/11556-nissen-nissen-saloman-henriette|Swedish singer; born in Göteborg March 12, 1819; died in Harzburg Aug. 27, 1879. She studied pianoforte under Chopin (1839), and singing under|
11894813X|/articles/11573-noah-mordecai-manuel|American Politiker, journalist, playwright, and philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 19, 1785; died in New York city March 22, 1851. He|
119453223|/articles/11581-noldeke-theodor|German Orientalist; born March 2, 1836, at Harburg. He studied Oriental languages at Göttingen, Vienna, Leyden, and Berlin; became assistant|
118588583|/articles/11585-nordau-max-simon|Settles in Paris. Austrian litterateur and Philosoph; born in Budapest July 29, 1849.His parents were very poor. His father, Gabriel Südfeld, had|
100534570|/articles/11588-nordheimer-isaac|American Orientalist; born 1809 at Memelsdorf, near Erlangen, in Bavaria; died 1842. A very promising Talmudic student, he was educated successively|
130053007|/articles/11600-nossig-alfred|Austrian author and sculptor; born at Lemberg, Galicia, April 18, 1864. He studied law, philosophy, and natural science at the universities of|
1089712782|/articles/11606-noveira-menahem|Italian Rabbiner of Verona and poet of the eighteenth century. He was a grandson of Hezekiah Mordecai Basan. His three responsa are appended to his|
123664667|/articles/11626-nunes-torres-david|akam and editor; born probably at Amsterdam; died in 1728 at The Hague. He was preacher of the societies Abi Yetomim and Keter Shem-Ṭob of Amsterdam|
11707263X|/articles/11636-nyari-alexander|Hungarian art critic; born Aug. 28, 1861, at Zala-Egersczeg; educated at Vienna under Hansen, receiving his diploma as architect in 1884. In the|
1045034207|/articles/11649-obornik-obernik-meir|Biurist and one of the Me'assefim; born in 1764; died at Vienna Nov. 6, 1805. Obornik contributed to the "Meassef" a great number of fables and was|
137155328|/articles/11655-ochs-adolph-simon|American journalist and newspaper publisher and proprietor; born March 12, 1858, at Cincinnati; educated at the common schools of Knoxville, Tenn.|
11707988X|/articles/11657-ochs-siegfried|German conductor and composer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main April 19, 1858. He first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum of|
118589598|/articles/11669-offenbach-jacques|Creator of French burlesque opera; born at Cologne June 21, 1819; died at Paris Oct. 5, 1880. He was a son of Judah Offenbach, cantor of the Jewish|
118786970|/articles/11685-oliphant-laurence|English traveler, author, and Politiker; born at Cape Town in 1829; died at Twickenham, England, Dec. 23, 1888. He traveled in nearly every country|
142447129|/articles/11691-olmo-jacob-daniel-ben-abraham|Italian Rabbiner and poet; born at Ferrara about 1690; died there the first day of Pentecost, 1757. He studied Talmud under his father and, later,|
117123323|/articles/11695-olshausen-justus|German Orientalist; born in Hohenfelde May 9, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 22, 1882; educated at the universities of Kiel (Ph.D. 1823), Berlin, and|
1089679815|/articles/11712-onkelos|Tanna of the end of the first century C.E. Although the proselyte Onḳelos is frequently confounded with the proselyte Aquila in the Talmud and the|
117134899|/articles/11716-opet-otto|German legist; born in Berlin April 1, 1866. He was formerly privat-docent in Bern, Switzerland, and at present (1904) is judge and instructor in|
1035111284|/articles/11725-oppenheim-abraham|German Rabbiner; born at Mannheim; died at Hanover Nov. 2, 1786; son of Löb Oppenheim. He was for many years prebendary in the Klaus of Mannheim,|
141732156|/articles/11728-oppenheim-asher-anshel|Talmudist; lived at Dessau at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Dibre Asher" (part i., "Miktab Ḥarbot Ẓurim"), treatise|
138991979|/articles/11729-oppenheim-david-ben-abraham|Austrian Rabbiner, cabalist, liturgist, mathematician, and bibliophile; born at Worms 1664; died at Prague Sept. 12, 1736. After studying at Metz under|
118951009|/articles/11730-oppenheim-heinrich-bernhard|German jurist, economist, and deputy; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 20, 1819; died at Berlin March 29, 1880. He was the son of a wealthy|
117137235|/articles/11731-oppenheim-hermann|German physician; born at Berlin Jan. 1, 1858. He studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen and Bonn, taking his degree in 1881. Settling in|
129521736|/articles/11732-oppenheim-jacques|Dutch barrister; born at Gröningen March 3, 1849. Educated at the gymnasium and university of his native town, he was graduated in 1872 as LL.D.,|
119484129|/articles/11735-oppenheim-moritz-daniel|German genre- and portrait-painter; born of Orthodox parents at Hanau in 1801; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Feb. 26, 1882. He received his first|
1053485425|/articles/11737-oppenheim-simon-ben-david|Austrian plagiarist; born in Kromau, Moravia, 1753; died at Pest, where he was dayyan, Jan. 24, 1851. He seems to have pursued his studies in|
118641417|/articles/11739-oppenheimer-franz|German physician and writer; born at Berlin March 30, 1864. His father, Julius Oppenheimer, is Rabbiner of the Berlin Reform Congregation. He studied|
118757733|/articles/11740-oppenheimer-joseph-suss|German financier; born at Heidelberg in 1698; executed at Stuttgart Feb. 4, 1738. He was the son of R. Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer, a singer and|
119272229|/articles/11741-oppenheimer-samuel|German Bankier, imperial court factor, and diplomat; born at Heidelberg about 1635; died at Vienna May 3, 1703. He enjoyed the especial favor of|
115373916X|/articles/11738-oppenheimer-sir-charles|British consul-general at Frankfort-on-the-Main; born at Nastätten, Nassau, 1836; died at Frankfort June 21, 1900. He received his education in the|
172920019|/articles/11742-opper-frederick-burr|American political caricaturist; born at Madison, Lake County, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1857. He attended school until fourteen years of age and then worked|
117605727|/articles/11743-oppert-ernst-jacob|German merchant and traveler; born at Hamburg Dec. 5, 1832; died Sept. 19, 1903; brother of Jules Oppert. He chose a mercantile career, and went in|
117139068|/articles/11744-oppert-gustav-solomon|German Orientalist; brother of Jules and Ernst Jacob Oppert; born at Hamburg July 30, 1836. He was educated at the universities of Bonn, Leipsic,|
117139092|/articles/11745-oppert-jules|French Orientalist; born at Hamburg, Germany, July 9, 1825; died in Paris, Aug. 19, 1905. He was educated at the "Johanneum" in his native city, and|
1053150350|/articles/11774-ornstein-jacob-meshullam|Galician Rabbinernical authority; died at Lemberg 1839. He was the son of the Lemberg Rabbiner Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein. Jacob Meshullam at the death of his|
1111793565|/articles/11776-ornstein-zebi-hirsch|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Lemberg; died there March 21, 1888; son of Mordecai Zeeb Ornstein, and grandson of Jacob Meshullam Ornstein, Rabbiner of that|
117606731|/articles/11784-oser-leopold|Austrian physician; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, July 27, 1839; studied medicine at Vienna University, graduating and establishing himself as a|
119471833|/articles/11786-osiris-daniel|French philanthropist and art patron; born at Bordeaux July 23, 1825. For more than half a century a close friend of men prominent in art, politics,|
104265523|/articles/11803-ottenheimer-henriette|German poetess; born at Stuttgart Sept. 10, 1807; died there 1883. A faithful Jewess, she was filled with the desire, even at an early age, to|
138004528|/articles/11804-ottensooser-david|German author; born 1784; died May 22, 1858, at Fürth. An infant prodigy, he was an omnivorous reader from early youth; and his unceasing activity|
129708151|/articles/11805-ottensoser-lazarus|German Rabbiner; born at Weimarsschmieden in 1798; died at Hochstädt Aug., 1878; son of the "Cultusbeamte" Naphtali Ottensoser of Weimarsschmieden,|
117109398|/articles/11809-ottinger-eduard-maria|German writer; born at Breslau Nov. 19, 1808; died at Blasewitz, near Dresden, June 26, 1872. In 1828 he became a Catholic. He lived as a journalist|
130140783|/articles/11810-ottinger-jacob-joseph|German Rabbiner; born at Glogau 1780; died at Berlin Nov. 7, 1860. A pupil of Hirsch Samose, he acquired a wide knowledge of Rabbinernical literature. In|
1143552598|/articles/11819-ottolenghi-salvatore|Italian physician; born at Asti March 20, 1861. He received his education at his native town and at the University of Turin (M.D. 1884). He has been|
1089699824|/articles/11820-ottolengo-joseph|Italian scholar of the sixteenth century; died about 1570. He was a German by birth, but went from Ettlingen to Cremona. There he conducted a school|
1024837432|/articles/11823-ovary-leopold|Hungarian historian; custodian of the Hungarian state archives; born at Veszprim Dec. 31, 1833. He took part in the Hungarian struggle for liberty|
116015454|/articles/11847-pagay-hans|Austrian actor; born at Vienna Nov. 11, 1845. His father was a broker, and destined his son for the same career; but Pagay preferred the stage, and|
116015462|/articles/11848-pagay-josephine|Austrian actress; born at Vienna; died at Berlin Nov. 18, 1892. She made her first appearance at the age of fourteen in the rôle of Cupido in|
119347040|/articles/11849-pagel-julius-leopold|German physician and medical writer; born at Pollnow, Pomerania, May 29, 1851; educated at the gymnasium at Stolp and at the University of Berlin|
12860946X|/articles/11857-palache-samuel|Moroccan envoy sent by the King of Morocco to the Netherlands about 1591; subsequently acted as consul there; died at The Hague 1616. He proposed to|
1053420471|/articles/11858-palaggi-falaji-abraham|Turkish Rabbinernical author; born at Smyrna in 1809; died there 1899; son of Ḥayyim Palaggi. On the death of his father (1869), Abraham succeeded him|
17369005X|/articles/11859-palaggi-hayyim|Turkish Rabbinernical author; born at Smyrna 1788; died there 1869; maternal grandson of Joseph b. Ḥayyim Hazan, author of "Ḥiḳre Leb"; pupil of Isaac|
118789279|/articles/11861-palagyi-melchior|Hungarian writer; born at Paks Dec. 26, 1859. He received his primary instruction from his father, and then attended the lyceums at Temesvar and|
107864800X|/articles/11870-paley-john|American journalist; born Feb. 6, 1871, at Radoszkowice, government of Wilna, Russia. After receiving the usual education, he attended the|
120886383|/articles/11871-palgrave-cohen-sir-francis|English historian; born in London July, 1788; died there July 6, 1861; son of Meyer Cohen, a member of the London Stock Exchange. He was an infant|
173045421|/articles/11882-pan-taube|Judæo-German authoress of the sixteenth century; lived in the Prague ghetto at the time of Mordecai Meisel; daughter of R. Moses Löb Pizker, and|
1025013700|/articles/11885-panet-ezekiel|Hungarian Rabbiner; born 1783 at Bielitz, Silesia; died Nisan 20, 1845, at Karlsburg, Transylvania. He studied in the yeshibah of Leipnik, Moravia,|
10692981X|/articles/11887-paoli-betty-barbara-elisabeth-gluck|Austrian poetess; born at Vienna Dec. 30, 1814; died at Baden, near Vienna, July 5, 1894. Her father, a physician, died when she was very young;|
1076548091|/articles/11890-paperna-abraham-jacob|Russian educator and author; born at Kopyl, government of Minsk, 1840. He received a fair education, including the study of the Bible with|
122839676|/articles/11891-papo-eliezer-ben-isaac|Bulgarian Rabbiner and author; born in Sarajevo, Bosnia; died in 1824. He held the office of Rabbiner in Silistria, Bulgaria, till his death. He led a|
1045410020|/articles/11894-pappenheim-simon|German writer; born at Dembiohammer 1773; died at Ratibor Aug. 6, 1840. He at first supported himself as a private tutor, and then he obtained in|
116031573|/articles/11895-pappenheim-solomon|German scholar; born Feb. 2, 1740, at Zülz, Silesia; died March 4 or 5, 1814, at Breslau; son of Associate Rabbi Seligmann Pappenheim of Zülz. He|
104278153|/articles/11911-parhon-solomon-b-abraham-ibn|Spanish philologist of the twelfth century; a native of Ḳal'ah (Ḳal'at Ayyub, Calatayud), Aragon. In the preface to his lexicon he mentions as his|
121948277|/articles/11913-parish-alvars-elias|English harpist and composer; born at Teignmouth, England, Feb. 28, 1810; died at Vienna Jan. 25, 1849; a pupil of Dizi, Labarre, and Bochsa. In|
102690316|/articles/11927-pascheles-wolf|Austrian publisher; born at Prague May 11, 1814; died there Nov. 22, 1857. The son of needy parents, he gained a livelihood by tutoring in Prague|
126769567|/articles/11928-paschkis-heinrich|Austrian pharmacologist; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, March 21, 1849; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1872). He was appointed assistant at the|
11873945X|/articles/11935-pasternak-leonid-osipovich|Russian painter; born at Odessa, 1862, of well-to-do parents. According to a family tradition, he is descended on his father's side from a family of|
119105144|/articles/11950-paul-de-burgos|His Baptism. Spanish archbishop; born at Burgos about 1351; died Aug. 29, 1435. His father, Isaac ha-Levi, had come from Aragon or Navarre to Burgos|
100242375;1037647246|/articles/11953-paulli-holger-oliger|Danish religious fanatic; born in Copenhagen 1644; died there Aug., 1714. Of his early life little is known except that he had studied theology. In|
119782499|/articles/11954-paulus-of-prague-elhanan-ben-menahem|Convert to Christianity; born apparently at Kholm (Chelm), Poland, about 1540; died at Prague about the end of the sixteenth century. He was first|
119446383|/articles/11981-pedro-ii-pedro-d-alcantara|Emperor of Brazil; born Dec. 2, 1825; died at Paris Dec. 5, 1891. He succeeded his father, Pedro I., and assumed personal control of the government|
13406285X|/articles/11992-peiser-simon-b-judah-lob|Rabbi in Lissa; born at Peisern, Poland, about 1690. He was the author of "Naḥalat Shim'oni," an important work of reference consisting of four|
114722692|/articles/12009-penso-joseph|Merchant, poet, and philanthropist; born at Espejo, Spain, about 1650; died at Amsterdam Nov. 13, 1692. He was the son of Isaac Penso Felix and of|
143606042;1053421729|/articles/12016-perahyah-aaron-b-hayyim-abraham-ha-kohen|Rabbi and author; flourished at Salonica in the seventeenth century; a pupil of Ḥasdai Peraḥyah ha-Kohen. He was the author of the following four|
173010830|/articles/12019-pereferkovich-nahum-abramovich|Russian author and translator; born at Stavropol, Caucasia, in 1871, receiving there his early education. In 1894 he was graduated by the faculty of|
117693677|/articles/12021-pereira-jonathan|English physician and medical writer; born in London May 22, 1804; died there Jan. 20, 1853. He was educated at the Aldersgate General Dispensary|
119010046|/articles/12024-peretz-isaac-lob|Writer in Yiddish and Hebrew; born at Samoscz, government of Lublin, May 25, 1851. In the Hebrew school in which he received his early education he|
123654459|/articles/12025-pereyra-abraham-israel|Spanish writer and philanthropist; born at Madrid; died 1699 at Amsterdam. He went to Venice to escape the persecution of the Inquisition, and|
17324937X|/articles/12027-perez-ben-elijah-of-corbeil|French tosafist; lived at Corbeil in the second half of the thirteenth century; died before 1298, probably in 1295; son of the Talmudist Elijah of|
124884687|/articles/12033-peringer-gustav-von-lilienblad|Christian Orientalist; born 1651; died at Stockholm Jan. 5, 1710; studied under Wagenseil at Altdorf. He was professor of Oriental languages at|
119163357|/articles/12037-perl-joseph|Austrian Mæcenas and man of letters; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, 1774; died there Oct. 1, 1839. The son of a wealthy family, and growing to manhood|
116079495|/articles/12038-perlbach-max|German historian; born at Danzig, Prussia, Nov. 4, 1848. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium at Breslau, and studied history at the universities of|
142043354|/articles/12040-perlhefter-eybeschutz-issachar-bar-b-judah-lob-b-moses|Bohemian Rabbiner and author; died after Sept. 9, 1701. He was a native of Prague and a scion of the Eibenschütz or Eybeschütz family; but in|
116082127|/articles/12044-perreau-pietro|Christian librarian and Oriental scholar; born at Piacenza Oct. 27, 1827; studied in the Alberoni College of his native town from 1844 to 1849. In|
1089702558|/articles/12056-pesante-pizante-moses-b-hayyim-b-shem-tob|Turkish commentator of the second half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Yesha' Elohim," a commentary on the "Hosha'not" and on some|
102414939|/articles/12071-pethahiah-b-jacob-ha-laban|Traveler; born at Prague; flourished between 1175 and 1190. He journeyed from Ratisbon (Regensburg) to the East, traveling through Poland, southern|
1147240507|/articles/12076-petronius-publius|Governor of Syria (39-42); died probably in the reign of Claudius. During his term of office Petronius had frequent opportunities to come in contact|
176991948|/articles/12081-pfefferkorn-johann-joseph|His anti-Jewish Writings. German convert to Christianity; born 1469; died after 1521. According to Grätz, he was a butcher by trade and illiterate,|
118593870|/articles/12096-philip-iv|King of Spain; called the "poet king" because he was devoted to poetry and art; born at Valladolid April 8, 1605; died Sept. 17, 1665. He delegated|
116174137|/articles/12099-philipp-isidor-edmond|Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest Sept. 2, 1863. He went to Paris at the age of sixteen and entered the Conservatoire as a pupil of Mathias. In|
104103167|/articles/12103-philippi-friedrich-adolf|Lutheran theologian; born at Berlin Oct. 15, 1809; died at Rostock Aug. 29, 1882. He was the son of a wealthy Jewish Bankier, a friend of|
173048757|/articles/12106-philipson-david|American Rabbiner; born at Wabash, Ind., Aug. 9, 1862; educated at the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati|
103358472X|/articles/12113-phillips-philip|American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 17, 1807; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, 1884. He was educated at the Norwich Military Academy|
1055485244|/articles/12115-phillips-samuel|English journalist; born at London 1815; died at Brighton Oct., 1854. He was the son of an English merchant, and at fifteen years of age made his|
118594001|/articles/12116-philo-judaeus|Alexandrian Philosoph; born about 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt; died after 40 C.E. The few biographical details concerning him that have been|
1053485409|/articles/12121-phinehas-ben-jair|Tanna of the fourth generation; lived, probably at Lydda, in the second half of the second century; son-in-law of Simeon ben Yoḥai and a fellow|
117709484|/articles/12130-pichler-adolf|Austrian painter; born in 1834 at Cziffer, in the county of Presburg, Hungary. At the age of thirteen he went to Budapest, where he supported|
142129356|/articles/12134-pick-alois|Austrian physician, medical author, and dramatist; born at Karolinenthal, near Prague, Bohemia, Oct. 15, 1859. He studied medicine at the|
116178213|/articles/12135-pick-arnold|Austrian psychiatrist; born at Gross-Meseritsch, Moravia, July 20, 1851; educated at Berlin and Vienna (M.D. 1875). He became assistant physician at|
11617823X|/articles/12136-pick-behrendt|German numismatist and archeologist; born Dec. 21, 1861, at Posen. After passing through the Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium of his native city, he|
117685984|/articles/12138-pick-philipp-joseph|Austrian dermatologist; born at Neustadt, Bohemia, Oct. 14, 1834. He studied natural sciences and medicine at Vienna (M.D. 1860) and acted as|
118742418|/articles/12139-pico-de-mirandola-count-gio-vanni-frederico-prince-of-concordia|Italian Philosoph, theologian, and cabalist; born Feb. 24, 1463, at Mirandola; died at Florence Nov. 17, 1494. Gifted with high intellectual|
134080092|/articles/12158-pinczow-eliezer-b-judah|Polish Rabbiner; flourished at the end of the seventeenth century; grandson of R. Ẓebi Hirsch, Rabbiner of Lublin. He was Rabbiner of Pinczow and other|
118594435|/articles/12161-pine-pnie-samson|German translator of the fourteenth century. He was probably born at Peine, a city in the province of Hanover, whencehis name is derived and where a|
137354150|/articles/12162-pineles-hirsch-mendel|Austrian scholar; born at Tysmenitz, Galicia, Dec. 21, 1805; died at Galatz, Rumania, Aug. 6, 1870. After having studied Talmud and Rabbinernics in his|
118792253|/articles/12163-pinero-pinheiros-arthur-wing|English dramatist; born in London May 24, 1855; eldest son of John Daniel Pinero. He is descended from a Sephardic family. As a boy Pinero was|
173262228|/articles/12169-pinkhof-herman|Dutch physician; born at Rotterdam May 10, 1863; educated at the University of Leyden (M.D. 1886). He established himself as a physician in|
116188723|/articles/12171-pinner-adolf|German chemist; born at Wronke, Posen, Germany, Aug. 31, 1842; educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau and at the University of|
104113316|/articles/12172-pinner-ephraim-moses-b-alex-ander-susskind|German Talmudist and archeologist; born in Pinne about 1800; died in Berlin 1880. His first work, bearing the pretentious title of "Ḳiẓẓur Talmud|
119256304|/articles/12175-pinsker-lev-lev-semionovich|Russian physician; born at Tomashev, government of Piotrkow (Piotrikov), Poland, 1821; son of Sim-ḥah Pinsker; died at Odessa Dec. 21, 1891. Pinsker|
137354320|/articles/12176-pinsker-simhah|Polish Hebrew scholar and archeologist; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, March 17, 1801; died at Odessa Oct. 29, 1864. He received his early Hebrew|
116189649|/articles/12181-piperno-settimio|Italian economist: born at Rome 1834. He is (1905) professor of statistics and political economy in the Technical Institute of Rome, director of the|
1075871573|/articles/12182-pirbright-henry-de-worms-bar-on|English statesman; born in London 1840; died at Guildford, Surrey, Jan. 9, 1903; third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms, a baron of the Austrian|
118984373|/articles/12186-pirogov-nikolai-ivanovich|Friendly Attitude Toward the Jews. Russian physician and pedagogue; born 1810; died Nov., 1881. He was professor at the University of Dorpat. As a|
116203412|/articles/12201-placzek-baruch-jacob|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Oct. 1, 1835; son and successor of Abraham Placzek. In 1858 he founded a high school at Hamburg, and|
143570102|/articles/12207-plessner-elias|German Rabbiner; son of Solomon Plessner; born Feb. 19, 1841, at Berlin; died at Ostrowo March 30, 1898. He studied at the University of Berlin, and|
130137030|/articles/12208-plessner-solomon|Becomes Eminent as a Preacher. German preacher and Bible commentator; born at Breslau April 23, 1797; died at Posen Aug. 28, 1883. Having lost his|
10225902X|/articles/12211-plotke-julius|German lawyer and communal worker; born at Borek, province of Posen, Oct. 5, 1857; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 27, 1903. Having finished his|
104161957|/articles/12215-plungian-plungianski-morde-cai-marcus|Russian Hebraist and author; born at Plungian, in the government of Wilna, 1814; died at Wilna Nov. 28, 1883. He was a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe,|
1034108581|/articles/12218-pochowitzer-puchowitzer-ju-dah-lob-ben-joseph|Russian Rabbiner and preacher; flourished at Pinsk in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died in Palestine, whither he went before 1681. He|
129056693|/articles/12219-pocock-edward|English Christian Orientalist and theologian; born at Oxford Nov. 8, 1604; died there Sept. 12, 1691. He studied Oriental languages at Oxford and|
117688495|/articles/12231-polacco-vittorio|Italian jurist of Polish descent; born at Padua May 10, 1859. Since 1884 he has been professor of civil law at the University of Padua. His chief|
137375786|/articles/12232-polak-gabriel-jacob|Talmudist and bibliographer; born June 3, 1803; died May 14, 1869, at Amsterdam, where he was principal of a school. He was the author of the|
119180790|/articles/12233-polak-henri|Dutch labor-leader and Politiker; born at Amsterdam Feb. 22, 1868. Till his thirteenth year he attended the school conducted by Halberstadt, a|
1055395202|/articles/12234-polak-herman-josef|Dutch philologist; born Sept. 1, 1844, at Leyden; educated at the university of that city (Ph.D. 1869). From 1866 to 1869 he taught classics at the|
116261706|/articles/12235-polak-jakob-eduard|Austrian physician; born 1818 at Gross-Morzin, Bohemia; died Oct. 7, 1891; studied at Prague and Vienna (M.D.). About 1851, when an envoy of the|
102403678|/articles/12238-polemon-ii|King, first of the Pontus and the Bosporus, then of the Pontus and Cilicia, and lastly of Cilicia alone; died in 74 C.E. Together with other|
117688940|/articles/12242-politzer-adam|Austrian aurist; born at Alberti-Irsa, Hungary, Oct. 1, 1835; studied medicine at the University of Vienna, receiving his diploma in 1859 and|
139220038|/articles/12245-pollak-a-m-ritter-von-rudin|Austrian manufacturer and philanthropist; born at Wescheraditz, Bohemia, in 1817; died at Vienna June 1, 1884. Pollak was trained for a technical|
142104345|/articles/12247-pollak-joachim-hayyim-joseph|Austrian Rabbiner; born in Hungary in 1798; died at Trebitsch, Moravia, Dec. 16, 1879, where he officiated as Rabbiner from 1828 until his death. He wrote|
135732808|/articles/12248-pollak-kaim|Hungarian writer; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós Oct. 6, 1835; educated in the Talmud at his native city, at Presburg, and at Sátoralja Ujhely. In 1858|
1050970268|/articles/12249-pollak-leopold|Genre- and portrait-painter; born at Lodenitz, Bohemia, Nov. 8, 1806; died at Rome Oct. 16, 1880. He studied under Bergler at the Academy of Prague,|
118838172|/articles/12250-pollak-ludwig|Austrian archeologist; born in Prague Sept. 14, 1868 (Ph.D. Vienna, 1893). In 1893 he was sent for a year by the Austrian government to Italy and|
13921951X|/articles/12251-pollak-moriz-ritter-von-borkenau|Austrian financier; born at Vienna Dec. 24, 1827; died there Aug. 20, 1904. After leaving the gymnasium of his native city, at the age of|
104007923|/articles/12252-pollitzer-adolph|Violinist; born at Budapest July 23, 1832; died in London Nov. 14, 1900. In 1842 he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied the violin under|
1012825728|/articles/12258-polotsk-phinehas-b-judah|Polish commentator on the Bible; lived at Polotsk, Poland, in the eighteenth century. He wrote commentaries on four books of the Old Testament, as|
118678841|/articles/12266-ponte-lorenzo-da-jeremiah-conegliano|Italian-American man of letters, composer, and teacher; born at Ceneda, Italy, 1749; died 1837. He belonged to a well-known Jewish family, which had|
1168771943|/articles/12268-pontremoli-benjamin|Turkish Rabbinernical writer; lived at Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Shebeṭ Binyamin" (Salonica,|
1168775450|/articles/12270-pontremoli-hiyya|Turkish Rabbinernical author; died at Smyrna in 1832; son of Benjamin Pontremoli. Ḥiyya Pontremoli wrote, among other works, the "Ẓappiḥit bi-Debash,"|
116268409|/articles/12275-popper-david|Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague June 18, 1845; a pupil of Goltermann at the Conservatorium in that city. At the age of eighteen he made a|
118595822|/articles/12276-popper-josef|Austrian engineer and author; born Feb. 22, 1838, at Kolin, Bohemia. Besides essays on machinery published in the "Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen|
1026472105|/articles/12277-popper-siegfried|Austrian naval constructor; born at Prague 1848. Educated at the polytechnic high schools of Prague and Carlsruhe, he worked for two years in|
1055387234|/articles/12278-popper-william|American Orientalist; born at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 29, 1874; educated at the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., the College of the City of New York,|
116268522|/articles/12279-popper-wilma|Hungarian authoress; born at Raab, Hungary, May 11, 1857; educated in her native town. She commenced to write at an early age. Besides contributing|
132169223|/articles/12280-poppers-jacob-ben-benjamin-cohen|German Rabbiner; born at Prague in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1740. His father, who was a distinguished|
13766365X|/articles/12281-poppers-meir-ben-judah-lob-ha-kohen-ashkenazi|Bohemian Rabbiner and cabalist; born at Prague; died at Jerusalem in Feb. or March, 1662. He studied the Cabala under Israel Ashkenazi and Jacob Ẓemaḥ,|
119403706|/articles/12274-poppaea-sabina|Mistress and, after 62 C.E., second wife of the emperor Nero; died 65. She had a certain predilection for Judaism, and is characterized by Josephus|
138275033|/articles/12285-porges-moses-ben-israel-naphtali-hirsch|Rabbinical author; lived at Jerusalem at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Darke Ẓiyyon" (Amsterdam, 1650), written,|
128988215|/articles/12286-porges-nathan|German Rabbiner; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Dec. 21, 1848. He was educated in his native town, at the gymnasium at Olmütz, and at the University|
139485465|/articles/12304-posnanski-adolf|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Lubraniec, near Warsaw, June 3, 1854; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the Rabbinernical seminary at Breslau,|
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14237024X|/articles/12309-posner-solomon-zalman|Polish Rabbiner: born at Landsberg about 1778 (?); died in Loslau in 1863; son of Joseph Landsberg, Rabbiner of Posen. At Solomon's wish his sons erected|
118792997|/articles/12312-possart-ernst-von|German actor and author; born at Berlin May 11, 1841. When seventeen years old he was apprenticed to the Schroeder'sche Buch- und Kunst-Handlung, a|
116269863|/articles/12313-possart-felix|German landscape and genre painter; born in Berlin March 7, 1837. He at first intended to pursue a juridical career, and held for some years an|
102821038|/articles/12323-poznanski-samuel|Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; Rabbiner and preacher at the Polish synagogue in Warsaw; born at Lubranice, near|
117697109|/articles/12354-pribram-przibram-alfred|Austrian physician; born at Prague May 11, 1841; educated at the university of his native city (M.D. 1861). He established a practise in Prague,|
117697117|/articles/12355-pribram-richard|Austrian chemist; born at Prague April 21, 1847; educated at the Polytechnic and the University of Prague, and at the University of Munich (Ph.D.|
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124436579|/articles/12357-prideaux-humphrey|English Orientalist; born at Padstow, Cornwall, May 3, 1648; died at Norwich Nov. 1, 1724; educated at Christchurch, Oxford, where he became Hebrew|
116290684|/articles/12366-pringsheim-nathaniel|German botanist; born at Wziesko, Oberschlesien, Nov. 30,1823; died at Berlin Oct. 6, 1894. He was educated at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium at Breslau,|
1075831210|/articles/12413-psantir-jacob-ben-zelig|Rumanian historical writer; born at Botoshani June 6, 1820; died in Bucharest March 22, 1901. From his childhood he devoted himself to the study of|
1124814906|/articles/12431-pucher-solomon|Rabbi; born 1829 at Neustadt-Sherwint, Poland; died Nov. 23, 1899, at Riga. Educated at the yeshibah of Georgenburg and at the Rabbinernical school of|
118597086|/articles/12437-pulitzer-joseph|American editor and journalist; born April 10, 1847, at Budapest. Hungary; educated privately. In 1863 he left his native town for the United|
1069124745|/articles/12461-quetsch-solomon|Austrian Rabbiner and Talmudist; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Oct. 13, 1798; died there Jan. 30, 1856. He was educated at the yeshibah of his native|
130185531|/articles/12500-Rabbinernovicz-raphael-nathan|V10p298001.jpgRaphael Rabbinovicz.Talmudical scholar and antiquarian; born at Novo-Zhagory, government of Kovno, Russia, in 1835; died at Kiev Nov.|
1048690946|/articles/12499-Rabbinernowicz-israel-michel|Russo-French author and translator; born at Horodetz, near Kobrin, government of Grodno, June 6, 1818; died in London May 27, 1893. His father, R.|
138721270|/articles/12501-Rabbinernowitz-saul-phinehas|Russian Neo-Hebrew publicist and historian; born in Taurogen, government of Kovno, April 8, 1845. At the age of five he was taken to Wilna, where|
124016510|/articles/12502-rabe-johann-jacob|German translator of the Mishnah and the Talmud; born 1710 in Lindflur, Unterfranken; died Feb. 12, 1798. He was city chaplain in Ansbach|
101498985X;17376519X;|/articles/12508-rabinovich-leon|Russian physicist and journalist; born at Brestovitz, government of Grodno, Jan. 2, 1862. He is descended on his father's side from Yom-Ṭob Lipmann|
118795392|/articles/12512-rabinovitz-shalom|Russian journalist and novelist; born in Pereyaslav, government of Poltava, 1859. At the age of twenty-one he became government Rabbiner of a small|
11768418X|/articles/12513-rabinowitsch-kempner-lydia|Physician; born at Kovno, Russia, Aug. 22, 1871; educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently|
136531369|/articles/12514-rabinowitz-elijah-david-ben-benjamin|Russian Rabbiner; born at Pikeln, government of Kovno, June 11, 1845. He studied Talmud and Rabbinernics under his father (who was Rabbiner successively at|
119354195|/articles/12517-rabinowitz-joseph|Russian missionary to the Jews; born in Orgeyev, Bessarabia, Sept. 23, 1837; died in Kishinef May 12, 1899. He wasbrought up as a Ḥasid, but later|
118173343X|/articles/12524-radin-adolph-m|American Rabbiner; born at Neustadt-Schirwindt, Poland, Aug. 5, 1848. He received his Talmudical education at Volozhin and Eiseshok, and studied at the|
116324082|/articles/12527-raffalovich-arthur|Russian economist; born at Odessa in 1853; a member of the well-known banking family of that name. He studied economics and diplomacy at Paris and|
1012824314|/articles/12530-ragoler-abraham-ben-solomon|Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born at Wilna; brother of Elijah b. Solomon (Elijah Wilna). Ragoler was preacher at Shklov and the|
10312084X|/articles/12532-ragstatt-friedrich-von-weila|Convert to Christianity; born in Germany 1648. His Jewish name was probably Weil, whence his surname von Weila. He embraced Christianity at Cleves|
139789006|/articles/12539-rahmer-moritz|German Rabbiner; born Dec. 12, 1837, at Rybnik, Prussian Silesia; died at Magdeburg March 2, 1904. After studying at the seminary of Breslau (1854-62)|
1027429939|/articles/12562-randegger-maier|Austrian educationist; born at Randegg Feb. 9, 1780; died at Triest March 12, 1853. He was educated at home, at Lengau (Switzerland), at Fürth|
1055377409|/articles/12564-ranschburg-paul|Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Raab Jan. 3, 1870. On taking his degree of M. D. at the University of Budapest in 1894, he was appointed assistant|
1125637641|/articles/12568-rapa-porto-menahem-abraham-b-jacob-ha-kohen-menahem-rapoport|Italian Rabbiner and author; lived at Porto, in the district of Verona, and at Cremona; died Dec. 30, 1596. He was a descendant of the Rapa family, but|
132262150|/articles/12573-raphael-ben-jekuthiel-susskind-ha-kohen|Talmudist and author; born in Livonia Nov. 4, 1722; died at Altona Nov. 26, 1803. He was educated at Minsk under Aryeh Löb ben Asher, whose|
121669270|/articles/12575-raphall-morris-jacob|Rabbi and author; born at Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 1798; died at New York June 23, 1868. At the age of nine he was taken by his father, who was|
118598325|/articles/12585-rashi-solomon-bar-isaac|His Teachers. French commentator on Bible and Talmud; born at Troyes in 1040; died there July 13, 1105. His fame has made him the subject of many|
118598430|/articles/12588-rathenau-walther|German naturalist, Bankier, and writer; born in Berlin Sept. 29, 1867; educated at the universities of Berlin (M. D. 1889) and Strasburg. In 1891 he|
118598473|/articles/12591-ratisbonne-alphonse-marie|French convert to Catholicism; brother of Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne; born at Strasburg May 1, 1812; died at Jerusalem May 6, 1884. After taking his|
119326671|/articles/12592-ratisbonne-marie-theodore|French convert to Catholicism; born at Strasburg Dec. 18, 1802; died at Paris Jan. 10, 1884; son of the president of the Jewish consistory of|
139659277|/articles/12600-rawicz-victor-meyer|German Rabbiner; born at Breslau Aug. 19, 1846. He attended the Jewish theological seminary and the university of his native city (Ph.D. 1873). Rawicz|
136537170|/articles/12618-reckendorf-hermann-hayyim-zebi-ben-solomon|German scholar and author; born in Trebitsch in 1825; died about 1875. Having acquired a thorough acquaintance with the Hebrew language and|
1077446241|/articles/12625-redlich-henry|Polish engraver in copper; born at Lask, government of Piotrkow, 1840; died at Berlin Nov. 7, 1884. He went at an early age to Breslau, where he|
123658144|/articles/12626-ree-anton|German educationist; born at Hamburg Nov. 16, 1815; died Jan. 13, 1891. He was educated at Kiel, during which time he wrote two works, "Wanderungen|
123682576|/articles/12627-ree-anton|Danish pianist and author; born in Aarhuus, Jutland, Oct. 5, 1820; died in Copenhagen Dec. 20, 1886. He studied in Hamburg under Jacques Smitt and|
142502502|/articles/12642-reggio-abraham-vita-ben-azriel|Italian Rabbiner and cabalist; born at Ferrara in 1755; died at Göritz Jan. 8, 1842. Reggio studied under Samuel Lampronti, devoting himself especially|
115484566|/articles/12643-reggio-isaac-samuel-yashar|His Acquirements. Austro-Italian scholar and Rabbiner; born at Göritz, Illyria, Aug. 15, 1784; died there Aug. 29, 1855. Reggio studied Hebrew and|
1012295656|/articles/12646-rehfuss-carl|German educationist; born in 1792 at Altdorf-im-Breisgau; died in 1842 at Heidelberg. From 1809 to 1816 he occupied the position of teacher in|
1027623743|/articles/12652-reich-ignaz-eizig|Hungarian teacher and author; born at Zsámbék 1821; died at Budapest April 18, 1887. He received his early instruction from his father, a Jewish|
116394714|/articles/12653-reich-moritz|German writer; born at Rokitnitz, Bohemia, April 20, 1831; died there March 26, 1857. The son of an indigent shoḥeṭ and ḥazzan, he attended the|
116399007|/articles/12657-reicher-kindermann-hedwig|German prima donna; born at Munich July 15, 1853; died at Triest June 2, 1883; daughter of the baritone August Kindermann. She received her early|
116398949|/articles/12656-reicher-emanuel|Austrian actor; born July 18, 1849, at Bochnia, Austria. Reicher's theatrical life is divided into two periods: the first ending with his separation|
1011976870|/articles/12658-reicherson-moses-ha-kohen|Hebrew grammarian; born in Wilna, Oct. 5, 1827; died in New York April 3, 1903. After studying Talmud, Hebrew, and European languages, he became|
137392214|/articles/12662-reifmann-jacob|Russian author and Philosoph; born April 7, 1818, at Lagow, near Opatow, Russian Poland; died at Szczebrszyn Oct. 13, 1895. Up to the age of six|
123922607|/articles/12664-reines-isaac-jacob-b-solomon-naphtali|Russian Rabbiner, and founder of the "Mizraḥi," or Orthodox, branch of the Zionist organization; a descendant of Saul Wahl; born in Karlin, government|
1021255084|/articles/12665-reines-moses|Russian scholar and author; born at Lida (where his father, R. Isaac Jacob Reines, was Rabbiner) in 1870; died there March 7, 1891. Moses Reines was|
132522500|/articles/12667-reischer-jacob-b-joseph|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Prague; died at Metz Feb. 1733. He was the son of R. Joseph, author of "Gib'ot 'Olam," and a pupil of R. Simon Spira of|
10031760X|/articles/12669-reland-adrian|Dutch Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Ryp, near Alkmaar, Holland, July 17, 1676; died at Utrecht Feb. 5, 1718. He became professor at|
119199084|/articles/12672-remak-moses-ben-jacob-cordovero|Rabbi of Safed and cabalist; born in 1522; died June 25, 1570. He belonged to a Spanish family, probably of Cordova, whence his name "Cordovero."|
116435569|/articles/12673-remak-ernst-julius|German physician; born at Berlin May 26, 1849; son of Robert Remak. He received his education at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, Würzburg,|
118744461|/articles/12674-remak-robert|German physician; born at Posen July 26, 1815; died at Kissingen Aug. 29, 1865. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, graduated in 1838,|
11859964X|/articles/12675-rembrandt-rembrandt-harmenszoon-van-ryn|Dutch painter; born at Leyden July 15, 1606 or 1607; died at Amsterdam Oct. 8, 1669. He was a contemporary of Manasseh ben Israel, with whom he was|
116436085|/articles/12676-remenyi-eduard|Hungarian violinist; born in Eged, Hungary, 1830; died at New York, May 15, 1898. He studied under Böhm at the Vienna Conservatorium from 1842 to|
118744496|/articles/12678-renan-joseph-ernest|French Semitic scholar and thinker; born at Tréguier Feb. 23, 1823; died at Paris Oct. 2, 1892. Destined for the priesthood, he felt in 1842, after|
118744658|/articles/12708-reuchlin-johann-von|German humanist; born Feb. 22, 1455, at Pforzheim; died June 30, 1522, at Liebenzell, near Hirschau, Württemberg. He studied at the universities of|
118921436|/articles/12710-reuss-eduard-wilhelm|Protestant theologian; born in Strasburg July 18, 1804; died there April 15, 1891. He studied Oriental languages with Gesenius at Halle, and with|
1027879403|/articles/12711-revai-mor|Hungarian deputy; born at Eperies in 1860; educated at the universities of Budapest and Leipsic. In 1880 he entered the publishing-house which his|
10419863X|/articles/12715-revere-giuseppe|Italian dramatist and humorist; born at Triest in 1812; died Nov. 22, 1889. He was destined by his parents for a commercial career, but soon|
119515601|/articles/12722-rewbell-jean-francois|Alsatian deputy of the French National Assembly from 1789 to 1791, and its president in the latter year; born at Colmar Oct. 8, 1747; died there|
141936630|/articles/12732-ribeiro-joao-pinto|Portuguese scholar; curator of the royal archives in Torre do Tombe, at Lisbon; died in that city Aug. 11, 1649. He was the author of a work|
118600214|/articles/12735-ricardo-david|English political economist and publicist; born in London April 19, 1772; died Sept. 11, 1823. The Ricardo family removed from Italy to Holland in|
1053420013|/articles/12736-ricchi-raphael-immanuel-hay-ben-abraham|Italian Rabbiner, cabalist, and poet; born at Ferrara 1688 (1693, according to Jellinek in "Orient, Lit." vii. 232); killed near Cento Feb. 25, 1743.|
136901018|/articles/12738-rice-abraham|American Talmudist and Rabbiner; born 1800 at Gagsheim, near Würzburg, Bavaria; died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1862. As a young student he was placed|
136715125|/articles/12740-rice-joseph-mayer|American physician and editor; born May 27, 1857, at Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia and New York, at the|
139714847|/articles/12748-rieger-paul|German Rabbiner and historian; born at Dresden July 4, 1870. He was educated at Dresden and at the universities of Breslau (Ph.D. 1894) and Berlin. At|
1012297152|/articles/12750-ries-elias-elkan|American electrical engineer; born at Randegg, Baden, Germany, Jan. 16, 1862. When only three years of age he was taken by his parents to America.|
118745263|/articles/12751-riesser-gabriel|German advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born at Hamburg April 2, 1806; died there April 22, 1863; youngest son of Lazarus Jacob Riesser.|
139196579|/articles/12752-riesser-lazarus-jacob|German Rabbiner, born 1763 in the valley of Riess (hence the name "Riesser"); died March 7, 1828, at Hamburg; father of Gabriel Riesser. In the "Zeker|
100800890|/articles/12766-ring-max|German novelist, lyric poet, and dramatist; born Aug. 4, 1817, at Zauditz, Silesia; died March 28, 1901, at Berlin. He first attended the Jewish|
129084263|/articles/12773-rittangel-johann-stephanus|German controversial writer; born at Forscheim, near Bamberg; died at Königsberg 1652. It is stated that he was born a Jew, became converted to|
104291524|/articles/12774-ritter-immanuel-heinrich|German Rabbiner; born March 13, 1825, in Ratibor, Prussian Silesia; died July 9, 1890, in Johannisbad, Bohemia. While studying at the gymnasium of his|
1046823205|/articles/12775-ritter-julius|German physician and author; born in Berlin Oct. 4, 1862; son of Immanuel H. Ritter. He received his degree of M. D. from the University of Berlin|
14242658X|/articles/12785-robbio-mordecai|Talmudist of the seventeenth century; lived probably in northern Italy. Under the title "Shemen ha-Mor" he wrote responsato the four ritual codices,|
118601709|/articles/12792-rodenberg-julius|German poet and author; born at Rodenberg, Hesse, June 26, 1831. He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Marburg,|
116580666|/articles/12794-roder-martin|German composer and conductor; born in Berlin April 7, 1851; died at Boston, Mass., June 7, 1895; studied at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik in|
120161494|/articles/12799-rodrigues-olinde|French economist and reformer; born at Bordeaux Oct. 16, 1794; died at Paris Dec. 26, 1850. He was a pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, where he|
137948468|/articles/12803-roedelsheim-eleazar-sussmann-b-isaac|Dutch scholar, probably of German descent; lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of the following works: "Mohar|
113744269|/articles/12804-roest-meyer-marcus|Dutch bibliographer; born at Amsterdam 1821; died there 1890. Becoming connected with a firm of booksellers, he acquired a taste for bibliographical|
118749471|/articles/12807-rohling-august|Catholic theologian and anti-Semitic author; born in 1839 at Neuenkirchen, province of Hanover, Prussia. He studied at Münster and Paris, and became|
132429039|/articles/12810-romanelli-samuel-aaron|Neo-Hebrew poet; born at Mantua Sept. 19, 1757; died at Casale Monferrato Oct. 17, 1814. A man of great gifts but unsteady in his habits, Romanelli|
116605804|/articles/12815-romberg-moritz-heinrich|German physician; born at Meiningen, Saxony, Nov. 11, 1795; died in Berlin June 16, 1873. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of|
1028338562|/articles/12821-rona-samuel|Hungarian dermatologist; born at Halas April 1, 1857; educated at Budapest. He was appointed assistant to Prof. Kaposi at Vienna in 1881, and was|
1106359755|/articles/12824-roquemartine-david|French scholar; a native of Roquemartine; flourished in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Zekut Adam," giving an allegorical|
122252411|/articles/12825-rosales-jacob-hebraeus-immanuel-bocarro-frances-y-rosales|Physician, mathematician, astrologer, and poet; born in 1588 or, according to some, in 1593, at Lisbon; died either at Florence or at Leghorn in|
116608676|/articles/12827-rosanes-jacob|German mathematician; born Aug. 16, 1842, at Brody, Galicia. He received a common-school education in his native town and became a clerk in a|
116608943|/articles/12829-rose-arnold-josef|Rumanian violinist; born at Jassy Oct. 24, 1863. He began his musical studies at the age of seven, and at ten entered the first class in violin at|
117594733|/articles/12834-rosenau-milton-joseph|American physician; born at Philadelphia Jan. 1, 1869; educated at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D. 1889). For more than a year he acted as|
1046901508|/articles/12835-rosenau-william|American Rabbiner; born at Wollstein, Germany, May 30, 1865. He attended successively the gymnasium of Hirschberg (Silesia), the public schools of|
11759475X|/articles/12837-rosenbach-ottomar-ernst-felix|German physician; born Jan. 4, 1851, at Krappitz, Silesia, where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received his education at the|
116621893|/articles/12841-rosenberg-albert|German physician: born Sept. 17, 1856, at Schloppe, West Prussia; educated at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1880). Of his essays may be mentioned:|
119277948|/articles/12850-rosenfeld-morris|Yiddish poet; born at Boksha, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, Dec. 28, 1862, educated at Boksha, Suwalki, and Warsaw. He worked as a tailor|
121034909;172348846|/articles/12851-rosenfeld-samson-wolf|German Rabbiner; born at Markt Uhlfeld, Bavaria, Jan. 4, 1780; died at Bamberg May 12, 1862. At the age of thirteen he entered the yeshibah at Fürth,|
116624000|/articles/12853-rosenhain-george|German mathematician; born June 10, 1816, at Königsberg, Prussia; died there May 14, 1887. He was privat-docent at the University of Breslau from|
116624043|/articles/12854-rosenhain-jakob-jacques|German pianist; born at Mannheim. Dec. 27, 1813; died at Baden-Baden March 21, 1894. A one-act piece of his entitled "Der Besuch im Irrenhauses" was|
11774297X|/articles/12855-rosenhaupt-moritz|German cantor; born at Offenbach on the Glan, Rhenish Prussia, March 14, 1841, where his father was Rabbiner and teacher; died at Nuremberg Nov. 16,|
116624981|/articles/12856-rosenmuller-ernst-friedrich-karl|Christian Orientalist and theologian; born Dec. 10, 1768, at. Hesselberg; died at Leipsic Sept. 17, 1835. He studied at Erlangen, Giessen, and|
117595322|/articles/12859-rosenstein-samuel-siegmund|German physician; born at Berlin Feb. 20, 1832; son of Rabbi Elhanan Rosenstein, and grandson of Rabbi Rosenstein of Bonn. He studied philosophy,|
11662549X|/articles/12862-rosenthal-david-augustus|German physician and author; born at Neisse, in Silesia, in the year 1812; died at Breslau March 29, 1875. He was educated at the University of|
11662552X|/articles/12863-rosenthal-eduard|German jurist; born Sept. 6, 1853, at Würzburg. He studied at Würzburg, Heidelberg, and Berlin (LL.D., Würzburg, 1878). In 1880 he established|
172812348|/articles/12864-rosenthal-eliezer-lazar|German bibliographer and owner of a famous collection of books at Hanover; born April 13, 1794, at Nasielsk, in the government of Plock, Russia;|
127866418|/articles/12865-rosenthal-ferdinand|German Rabbiner; born at Kenese, Hungary, Nov. 10, 1839; educated at several Talmud Torahs, the gymnasium at Vienna, and the universities of Leipsic|
116626062|/articles/12868-rosenthal-isidor|German physiologist; born at Labischin, near Bromberg, Posen, July 16, 1836; died in 1904. Graduating as M.D. from the University of Berlin in 1859,|
124671888|/articles/12875-rosenthal-moritz|Austrian physician; born at Grosswardein, Hungary, 1833; died in Vienna Dec. 30, 1889. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1858), he became|
116626364|/articles/12876-rosenthal-moritz|Austrian pianist; born at Lemberg 1862; studied successively under Galath, Mikuli, and Raphael Joseffy. In 1875 the family removed to Vienna, where|
135627397|/articles/12878-rosenthal-solomon|Hungarian scholar; born in Moór, Hungary, June 13, 1764; died at Pesth April 8, 1845. His father, Naphtali Rosenthal, was a personal friend of Moses|
11662650X|/articles/12879-rosenthal-toby-edward|American artist; born at New Haven, Conn., March 15, 1848. He received a public-school education at San Francisco, whither his family had removed in|
116626577|/articles/12880-rosenthal-bonin-hugo|German author; born at Berlin Oct. 14, 1840; died at Stuttgart April 7, 1897. After having studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and|
1055390537|/articles/12881-rosenzweig-adolf|German Rabbiner; born Oct. 20, 1850, at Turdossin, Hungary. He studied at the gymnasium at Budapest and at the Rabbinernical seminary of Presburg. After|
116627565|/articles/12891-rosin-david|German theologian; born at Ròsenberg, Silesia, May 27, 1823; died at Breslau Dec. 31, 1894. Having received his early instruction from his father,|
116627638|/articles/12892-rosin-heinrich|German jurist; born at Breslau Sept. 14, 1855. In 1880 he established himself as privat-docent in the law department of the Breslan University, but,|
117595616|/articles/12893-rosin-heinrich|German physician; born at Berlin Aug. 28, 1863; son of David Rosin. He studied at Breslau and Freiburg (M.D. 1887), and in 1888 became assistant to|
119160870|/articles/12895-rossi-azariah-ben-moses-dei|Earthquake at Ferrara, 1571. Italian physician and scholar; born at Mantua in 1513 or 1514; died in 1578. He was descended from an old Jewish family|
119120844|/articles/12896-rossi-giovanni-bernardo-de|Italian Christian Hebraist; born Oct. 25, 1742, in Castelnuovo; died in Parma March, 1831. He studied in Ivrea and Turin. In Oct., 1769, he was|
118791257|/articles/12898-rossi-solomon|Rabbi and composer; lived in Mantua during the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He came from an old Mantua|
1067977287|/articles/12903-roth-moritz|Swiss physician; born at Basel Dec. 25, 1839; educated at the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Basel (M.D. 1864). In 1866 he became|
117723231|/articles/12910-rothschild-david|German Rabbiner and author; born at Hamm, Westphalia, Nov. 16, 1816; died at Aachen Jan. 28, 1892. After completing his studies he became preacher in|
11759802X|/articles/12916-rowe-leo-s|American economist; born in McGregor, Iowa, Sept. 17, 1871. He entered the Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1887, but later|
116669373|/articles/12920-rubin-solomon|Galician Neo-Hebrew author; born in Dolina, Galicia, April 3, 1823. He was educated for the Rabbinernate, but, being attracted by Haskalah and modern|
118926802|/articles/12921-rubinstein-anton-grigoryevich|Russian pianist and composer; born Nov. 16 (28), 1829, in the village of Wechwotynetz (Vikhvatinetz), near Jassy, Bessarabia; died at Peterhof, near|
116669314|/articles/12923-rubinstein-josef|Russian pianist and composer; born at Staro-Constantinov Feb. 8, 1847; died by his own hand at Lucerne Sept. 15, 1884. He was a pupil of|
120131730|/articles/12924-rubinstein-nikolai-nicholas|Russian pianist; born in Moscow June 2, 1835; died in Paris March 23, 1881; brother of Anton Rubinstein. He received his early instruction from his|
116669616|/articles/12925-rubinstein-susanna|Austrian psychologist; born at Czernowitz, Bukowina, Sept. 20, 1847. She was the daughter of an Austrian deputy. In 1870 she entered the University|
116669756|/articles/12926-rubo-ernst-traugott|German jurist; born at Berlin July 8, 1834; died there March, 1895. Educated at the University of Heidelberg (LL.D. 1857), he was admitted to the|
104359714|/articles/12933-ruhs-christian-friedrich|German historian and anti-Jewish writer; born at Greifswald March 1, 1781; died at Florence Feb. 1, 1820. As professor of history at the|
136599958|/articles/12942-russell-henry|English composer and singer; born at Sheerness Dec. 24, 1812; died in London Dec. 7; 1900. He appeared in infancy in Christmas pantomimes, and later|
116712716|/articles/12949-ryssel-carl-victor|German Protestant theologian; born at Reinsberg, Saxony, Dec. 18, 1849; died at Zurich. March 2, 1905. Having completed his theological and Oriental|
118604414|/articles/12953-saadia-b-joseph-sa-id-al-fayyumi|Gaon of Sura and the founder of scientific activity in Judaism; born in Dilaẓ, Upper Egypt, 892; died at Sura 942. The name "Saadia," which, so far|
116713054|/articles/12957-saalschutz-joseph-lewin|German Rabbiner and archeologist; born March 15, 1801, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died there Aug. 23, 1863. Having received his education at the|
116713062|/articles/12958-saalschutz-louis|German mathematician; born at Königsberg, Prussia, Dec. 1, 1835; son of Joseph Levin Saalschütz. From 1854 to 1860 he studied mathematics and|
121541649|/articles/12975-sachs-bernhard|American physician; born at Baltimore Jan. 2, 1858; educated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and at the universities of London, Berlin,|
116739363|/articles/12976-sachs-johann-jacob-joseph-isidor|German physician; born at Märkisch Friedland July 26, 1803; died at Nordhausen Jan. 11, 1846. Educated at the University of Königsberg (M.D. 1827),|
119044595|/articles/12978-sachs-michael-jehiel|German Rabbiner; born at Glogau Sept. 3, 1808; died in Berlin Jan. 31, 1864. He was educated in the University of Berlin, taking the degree of Ph.D. in|
14363142X|/articles/12979-sachs-senior|Russo-French Hebrew scholar; born at Kaidany, government of Kovno, June 17, 1816; died at Paris Nov. 18, 1892. When Senior was only one and one-half|
104097817|/articles/12993-sahl|Physician, astrologer, and mathematician of the ninth century (c. 786-845 ?); father of the physician Ali ben Sahl. Sahl translated the "Almagest"|
10334456X|/articles/12995-sahulah-isaac-ben-solomon-ibn-abi|Spanish scholar and Hebrew poet of the thirteenth century; born, as some believe, at Guadalajara in 1244. Geiger, in "Melo Chofnajim," German|
116762705|/articles/13013-salaman-charles-kensington|English pianist, composer, and controversialist; born in London March 3, 1814; died there June 23, 1901. His musical talent became apparent at a|
127456244|/articles/13014-salaman-charles-malcolm|English journalist and dramatist; born in London Sept. 6, 1855; son of Charles Kensington Salaman, the composer. He is the author of "Ivan's|
134127633|/articles/13018-salant-samuel|Chief Rabbiner of the Ashkenazic congregations in Jerusalem; born Jan. 2, 1816, at Byelostok, Russia. Samuel married the daughter of Sundl of Salant|
139064516|/articles/13025-salfeld-siegmund|German Rabbiner; born at Stadthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, March 24, 1843. Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1870, he|
12789148X|/articles/13026-salgo-jakob|Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Pesth in 1849; educated at Pesth, at Vienna (M. D., Vienna, 1874), and at Göttingen, where he was assistant to Max|
134069137|/articles/13029-salkinson-isaac-edward|Russian Hebraist; convert to Christianity; born at Wilna; died at Vienna June 5, 1883. According to some, Salkinson was the son of Solomon Salkind.|
116766794|/articles/13030-saloman-geskel|Painter; born of German parents April 1, 1821, at Tondern, Sleswick; died July 5, 1902, at Stockholm. Soon after his birth his parents removed to|
116766808|/articles/13032-saloman-siegfried|Danish violinist and composer; born in Tondern, Sleswick-Holstein, Oct. 2, 1816; died July 22, 1899, on the island of Dalarö, Sweden; brother of|
11676712X|/articles/13034-salomon-gotthold|First German Sermon. German Rabbiner; born Nov. 1, 1784, at Sondersleben, Anhalt; died Nov. 17, 1862, in Hamburg. His first teacher in Bible and Talmud|
118943049|/articles/13035-salomon-haym|Early Career. American financier; born at Lissa, Poland, in 1740; died in Philadelphia Jan. 6, 1785. It is probable that he left his native country|
11761808X|/articles/13036-salomon-max|German physician; born at Sleswick, Sleswick-Holstein, April 5, 1837; son of Jacob Salomon; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the|
11761811X|/articles/13040-salomonsen-carl-julius|Danish bacteriologist; born at Copenhagen Dec. 6, 1847; son of Martin S. Salomonsen. He studied medicine at Copenhagen (M.D. 1871) and took a|
100269605|/articles/13049-salvador-joseph|French historian; born at Montpellier Jan. 5, 1796; died March 17, 1873, at Versailles; buried, at his own request, in the Protestant cemetery of Le|
1069605727|/articles/13063-samegah-samigah-joseph-ben-benjamin|Turkish Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Salonica; died June 6, 1629, at Venice, where he was Rabbiner and|
131741306|/articles/13066-samelsohn-julius|German ophthalmologist; born at Marienburg, West Prussia, April 14, 1841; died at Cologne March 7, 1899. Educated at the universities of Breslau and|
137475942|/articles/13068-samiler-smieler-a-g-eliakim-gotzel|Russian Talmudist and a member of a prominent Rabbinernical family; born in Smiela about 1780; died at Brody July 17, 1854. He devoted special|
137492383|/articles/13069-sammter-asher|German Rabbiner; born at Derenburg, near Halberstadt, Jan. 1, 1807; died at Berlin Feb. 5, 1887. From 1837 to 1854 he was Rabbiner and preacher in|
142707066|/articles/13070-samoscz-david|German author of Hebrew books for the young; born at Kempen, province of Posen, Dec. 29, 1789; died at Breslau April 29, 1864. He went at an early|
100961630|/articles/13073-samson-ben-abraham-of-sens|French tosafist; born about 1150; died at Acre about 1230. His birthplace was probably Falaise, Calvados, where lived his grandfather, the tosafist|
1089682255|/articles/13074-samson-ben-eliezer|German "sofer" (scribe) of the fourteenth century; generally called Baruk she-Amar, from the initial words of the blessing which he delighted to|
138300194|/articles/13084-samuel-sanwel-ben-aaron-benjamin|Scribe at Worms in the seventeenth century. After the fire of 1689 (Lewysohn, "Nafshot Ẓaddiḳim," p. 73, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1855) he left Worms|
10096169X|/articles/13110-samuel-ben-jacob-ibn-jam|Rabbi of a North-African community (); flourished in the twelfth century. He was on intimate terms with Abraham ibn Ezra, who dedicated to|
129775606|/articles/13152-samuel-ben-uri-shraga-phoebus|Polish Rabbiner and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the seventeenth century. In his early youth he was a pupil of R. Heshel in Cracow, and|
1100558527|/articles/13144-samuel-schmelka-ben-hayyim-shammash|Preacher and actuary of the Rabbinernate of Prague under Ephraim Solomon of Lencziza in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of|
118794329|/articles/13103-samuel-herbert|English Politiker; born in London 1870; youngest son of Edwin L. Samuel, and nephew of Sir Samuel Montagu. He was educated at Balliol College,|
1052848605|/articles/13129-samuel-moses|English author; born in London 1795; died at Liverpool 1860. He acquired considerable reputation as a Hebrew scholar and an authority on Rabbinernical|
117618667|/articles/13147-samuel-simon|German pathologist; born at Glogau Oct. 5, 1833; died at Königsberg, East Prussia, May 9, 1899. He studied medicine at Berlin and Vienna (M.D.|
1031682716|/articles/13157-samuely-nathan|Austrian ghetto poet; born in Stry, Galicia, 1846. At the age of seventeen he published a story in Hebrew entitled "Shewa Shaboses," which he|
124264638|/articles/13168-sanchez-sanches-antonio-ribeiro|Russian court physician; born 1699; died in Paris 1783; member of a Marano family of Penamacor, district of Castello Branca, Portugal. Sanchez, with|
119242044|/articles/13175-sanders-daniel|German lexicographer; born in Altstrelitz, Mecklenburg, April 12, 1819; died March 12, 1897. He received his early education in the Jewish school of|
119275112|/articles/13185-santob-shem-tob-de-carrion|Spanish poet; born toward the end of the thirteenth century at Carrion de los Condes, a town in Castile, whence his cognomen. He lived in the reigns|
118985345|/articles/13186-sanua-james|Egyptian publicist; born at Cairo April, 1839. He studied in Egypt and in Italy, and at the age of sixteen commenced to contribute articles to|
118794558|/articles/13188-saphir-moritz-gottlieb|Hungarian humorist; born at Lovas-Berény Feb. 8, 1795; died at Baden, near Vienna, Sept. 5, 1858. In 1806 he went to Prague to study the Talmud;|
139483918|/articles/13189-saphir-sigmund|Hungarian journalist; born in Hungary 1806 (according to some, 1801); died at Pesth Oct. 17, 1866. He edited several German papers in that city,|
129560553|/articles/13208-sarphati-samuel|Dutch physician and economist; born at Amsterdam Jan. 31, 1813; died there June 23, 1866. After finishing his medical studies at Leyden (M.D. 1838)|
117619426|/articles/13234-saulcy-louis-felicien-joseph-caignart-de|Christian archeologist and numismatist; born at Lille March 19, 1807; died in Paris Nov. 5, 1880. He first adopted a military career, and in this|
117023779|/articles/13242-sayce-archibald-henry|English archeologist; born at Shirehampton Sept. 25, 1846; educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and Queen's College, Oxford, becoming fellow in the|
117620165|/articles/13248-schapira-hermann|Russian mathematician; born in 1840 at Erswilken, near Tauroggen, a small town in Lithuania; died at Cologne May 8, 1898, Educated for the|
119183730;173098398;|/articles/13252-schatz-boris|Russian sculptor; born in 1866, in the government of Kovno. He was the son of a poor schoolmaster ("melammed"). He studied first at the Wilna School|
118907603|/articles/13253-schechter-solomon|President of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; formerly reader in Rabbinernics at Cambridge University; born in Rumania in|
142242977|/articles/13254-schefftel-simon-baruch|German Hebraist; born June 14, 1813, at Breslau; died March 9, 1885. In 1848 he settled as a merchant at Posen. After his retirement from business,|
1161484434|/articles/13255-scheid-elie|French communal worker and writer; born at Hagenau, Alsace, Oct. 24, 1841. After he had graduated from college, the impairment of his voice|
117621110;1029748209|/articles/13257-schenk-leopold|Austrian embryologist; born at Urmény, Comitat Neutra, Hungary, Aug. 23, 1840; died at Schwanberg, Styria, Aug. 18, 1902. Having studied at the|
1053047762|/articles/13263-schick-abraham-ben-aryeh-lob|Lithuanian Talmudist and author of the nineteenth century; a native of Slonim, government of Grodno. Schick occupied himself especially with|
129503339|/articles/13265-schick-elijah-ben-benjamin|Lithuanian Rabbiner and preacher; born at Vasilishok, government of Wilna, in 1809; died at Kobrin, government of Kovno, Sept. 2, 1876. He was a pupil|
117642967|/articles/13267-schiff-emil|Austrian journalist; born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, May 30, 1849; died in Berlin Jan. 23, 1899. Schiff was the son of a petty merchant, and became a|
1029908451|/articles/13268-schiff-josef|Austrian stenographer; born Feb. 25, 1848, at Ragendorf, Hungary. In 1874 he was appointed teacher of stenography at the Vienna Academy of|
1154701409|/articles/13274-schindler-solomon|German-American Rabbiner and author; born at Neisse, Germany, April 24, 1842. In 1868 he was selected to take charge of a small congregation in|
117643580|/articles/13277-schlesinger-josef|Austrian mathematician; born at Mährisch-Schönberg Dec. 31, 1831. The son of very poor parents, he had to earn a livelihood even as a mere boy. In|
117326259|/articles/13278-schlesinger-ludwig|Hungarian mathematician; born at Tyrnau (Nagyszombat) Nov. 1, 1864; educated at the Realschule, Presburg, and at the universities of Heidelberg and|
117660256|/articles/13280-schlesinger-sigmund|Austrian writer; born at Vienna 1811; educated at the Schottengymnasium and the University of Vienna (M. D. 1835). He published in 1828 in the|
1030035830|/articles/13281-schlesinger-wilhelm-s|Austrian physician; born at Tinnye, Hungary, 1839. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1864), he established himself in the Austrian capital,|
104287179|/articles/13285-schmelkes-gottfried-s|Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 22, 1807; died at Interlaken, Switzerland, Oct. 28, 1870. Educated at the universities of Prague and Vienna|
130352462|/articles/13286-schmid-anton-von|Christian publisher of Hebrew books; born at Zwettl, Lower Austria, Jan. 23, 1765; died at Vienna June 27, 1855. His father, an employee of the|
1031221158|/articles/13287-schmiedl-adolf|Austrian Rabbiner and scholar; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 26, 1821. He held the office of Rabbiner at Gewitsch, Moravia, from 1846 to 1849, during|
117644706|/articles/13288-schnabel-isidor|Austrian physician; born at Neubidschow, Bohemia, Nov. 14, 1842. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1865), he became there assistant in the|
1031331018|/articles/13289-schnabel-louis|Austrian teacher and journalist; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, June 29, 1829; died at New York May 3, 1897. He was educated at various yeshibot, and,|
116848669|/articles/13292-schnitzler-johann|Austrian laryngologist; born at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, April 10, 1835; died at Vienna May 2, 1893. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1860),|
105540015X|/articles/13298-schomberg-ralph-raphael|English physician and author; born at Cologne, Germany, Aug. 14, 1714; died at Reading, England, June 29, 1792; twin brother of Isaac Schomberg. He|
118610163|/articles/13299-schonerer-georg-von|Austrian Politiker and anti-Semitic agitator; born at Vienna July 17, 1842. He devoted himself to agriculture, and in 1873 entered the Austrian|
1055431748|/articles/13301-schonhak-joseph|Russian author; born at Tiktin 1812; died at Suwalki Dec., 10, 1870. Schönhak led a retired life, devoting his time to writing and study. He was the|
130601675|/articles/13303-schor-abraham-hayyim-ben-naphtali-hirsch|Galician Rabbiner; died at Belz, a small town near Lemberg, Jan. 3 (or 23), 1632; buried in Lemberg. He was Rabbiner in Satanow and later in Belz, and,|
1024500667|/articles/13306-schorr-joshua-heschel|Early Career. Galician Hebrew scholar, critic, and communal worker; born at Brody May 22, 1814; died there Sept. 2, 1895. His parents were rich,|
1032432144|/articles/13307-schorr-naphtali-mendel|Galician Hebrew writer; died at Lemberg Dec. 14, 1883. He was the founder (1861) of the Hebrew weekly "Ha-'Et," of which only twenty-two numbers|
136787843|/articles/13309-schott-schottlander-benedict-baruch|German educationist; born in Danzig March 11, 1763 (or 1764); died at Seesen July 21, 1846. Left an orphan at an early age, he wandered through|
1069882445|/articles/13310-schottlander-julius|German merchant; born at Münsterberg, Silesia, March 22, 1835; educated at the public schools of his native town and at Breslau. He established|
117015148|/articles/13311-schottlander-julius|German gynecologist; born at St. Petersburg April 12, 1860. Studying at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg, he graduated as doctor of|
1032617101|/articles/13312-schreiber-emanuel|American Rabbiner; born at Leipnik, Moravia, Dec. 13, 1852. He received his education at the Talmudical college of his native town, the Rabbinernical|
120148552|/articles/13313-schreiber-moses-b-samuel|German Rabbiner; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 14, 1763; died at Presburg Oct. 3, 1839. His mother's name was Reisil. At the age of nine he|
140290834|/articles/13314-schreiber-simon|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1821; died March 25, 1883, at Cracow; son of Moses Schreiber. In 1842 he became Rabbiner of Mattersdorf; in|
1032787732|/articles/13315-schreiner-abraham|Austrian discoverer of petroleum; born in Galicia in the second decade of the nineteenth century; died after 1870. He was a merchant in Boryslaw,|
1032813857|/articles/13316-schreiner-martin|Hungarian Rabbiner; born at Grosswardein July 8, 1863; educated at the local gymnasium and the Rabbinernical seminary and at the University of Budapest|
117123927|/articles/13319-schudt-johann-jakob|German polyhistor and Orientalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 14, 1664; died there Feb. 14, 1722. He studied theology at Wittenberg, and|
123049849|/articles/13320-schuhl-moise|French Rabbiner; born at Westhausen, Alsace, May 2, 1845. He received his education at the lyceum at Strasburg and at the Rabbinical Seminary, Paris,|
1146698127|/articles/13324-schulhof-isaac-ben-zalman-ben-moses|Austrian Rabbiner; born about 1650 at Prague; died there Jan. 19, 1733. He settled in Ofen as the Rabbiner of a small congregation, and in 1686, when that|
117169781|/articles/13325-schulhoff-julius|Austrian pianist and composer; born at Prague Aug. 2, 1825; died at Berlin March 15, 1898. Kisch and Tedesco were his teachers in piano, and he|
143113062|/articles/13327-schulman-kalman|Russian author, historian, and poet; born at Bykhov, government of Moghilef (Mohilev), Russia, in 1819; died in Wilna Jan. 2, 1899. He studied|
1055111387|/articles/13329-schulmann-ludwig|German philologist and writer; born at Hildesheim 1814; died at Hanover July 24, 1870. He studied philology at the University of Göttingen, and then|
100401791|/articles/13330-schultens-albert|Dutch Orientalist; born at Gröningen Aug. 23, 1686; died Jan. 26, 1756. He studied Arabic at Leyden under Van Til, and at Utrecht under Reland. He|
117316717|/articles/13332-schuster-arthur|English physicist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 12, 1851. He was educated at Frankfort, at Owens College, Manchester, and at the University|
136862985|/articles/13334-schwab-low|Moravian Rabbiner; born at Krumau, Moravia, March 11, 1794; died April 3, 1857; pupil of R. Mordecai Benet in Nikolsburg, R. Moses Sofer in Presburg,|
1055141731|/articles/13335-schwab-moise|French librarian and author; born at Paris Sept. 18, 1839; educated at the Jewish school and the Talmud Torah at Strasburg. From 1857 to 1866 he was|
1017910561|/articles/13336-schwabach-julius-leopold|British consul-general in Berlin; born in Breslau 1831; died there Feb. 23, 1898. At the age of sixteen he entered the banking-house of Bleichröder,|
117342238|/articles/13337-schwalbe-gustav|German anatomist and anthropologist; born at Quedlinburg Aug. 1, 1844. Educated at the universities of Berlin, Zurich, and Bonn (M.D. 1866), he|
1014633354|/articles/13338-schwarz-adolf|Austrian theologian; born July, 1846, at Adász-Tevel, near Papa, Hungary. He received his early instruction in the Talmud from his father, who was a|
117366803|/articles/13340-schwarz-gustav|Hungarian lawyer; born at Budapest 1858; educated in his native city and at German universities. In 1884 he became privat-docent in Roman law at|
1011578166|/articles/13341-schwarz-israel|German Rabbiner; born at Hürben, Bavaria, March 15, 1830; died at Cologne Jan. 4, 1875; educated by his father, R. Joachim Schwarz of Hürben. At the|
138369313|/articles/13342-schwarz-joseph|V11p118001.jpgJoseph Schwarz.Palestinian geographer; born at Flosz, Bavaria, Oct. 22, 1804; died at Jerusalem Feb. 5, 1865. When he was seventeen|
100958079|/articles/13343-schwarz-peter|German Dominican preacher and anti-Jewish writer of the fifteenth century. According to John Eck ("Verlegung cines Juden-Büchleins," signature H,|
118795813|/articles/13349-schwob-mayer-andre-marcel|French journalist; born at Chaville (Seine-et-Oise) Aug. 23, 1867; died at Paris Feb. 27, 1905. He received his early instruction at Nantes, where|
117443379|/articles/13381-seegen-josef|Austrian balneologist; born at Polna May 20, 1822. He studied medicine at Prague and Vienna (M.D. 1847), becoming privat-docent at Vienna in 1854|
1018619720|/articles/13393-seherr-thoss-johann-christoph-freiherr-von|Austrian soldier; born at Lissen Feb. 17, 1670; died Jan. 14, 1743. He is known in Jewish history as having been the first to give official|
118796127|/articles/13399-selden-john|English jurist and Orientalist; born Dec. 16, 1584, at Salvington, Sussex; died at Whitefriars, London, Nov. 30, 1654. He was educated at Oxford,|
11765633X|/articles/13404-seligmann-franz-romeo|Austrian physician and Persian scholar; born at Nikolsburg June 30, 1808; died at Vienna Sept. 15, 1892. Educated at the gymnasium and University of|
1018791418|/articles/13405-seligmann-leopold-ritter-von|Austrian army surgeon; born at Nikolsburg Jan. 18, 1815; brother of Franz Romeo Seligmann. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native|
1018819681|/articles/13417-semon-charles|Philanthropist; born in Danzig 1814; died in Switzerland July 18, 1877. He emigrated to England and settled in the manufacturing town of Bradford,|
117469858|/articles/13418-semon-sir-felix|English specialist in diseases of the throat; born at Danzig Dec. 8, 1849; nephew of Julius Semon. He studied medicine at the universities of|
117470066|/articles/13420-senator-herman|German clinicist and medical author; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 6, 1834; M.D. Berlin, 1857. During his medical course he was|
118613200|/articles/13421-seneca-lucius-annaeus|Stoic Philosoph; born about 6 B.C.; died 65 C.E.; teacher of Nero. Like other Latin authors of the period, Seneca mentions the Jews, although his|
139538402|/articles/13446-servi-flaminio-ephraim|Italian Rabbiner; born at Pitigliano, Tuscany, Dec. 24, 1841; died at Casale-Monferrato Jan. 23, 1904. He received his education in his native town, at|
117657085|/articles/13449-sessa-karl-borromaus-alexander|Anti-Jewish author; born at Breslau Dec. 20, 1786; died there Dec. 4, 1813. He studied philosophy and medicine in various universities, graduated as|
132262649|/articles/13474-shabbethai-b-meir-ha-kohen-shak|Russian Talmudist; born at Wilna 1621; died at Holleschau on the 1st of Adar (Rishon), 1662. In 1633 he entered the yeshibah of R. Joshua at|
13332771X|/articles/13493-shalom-ben-joseph-shabbezi-salim-al-shibzi|Yemenite poet and cabalist; flourished toward the end of the seventeenth century at Ṭa'iz, a city ten days' journey south of Sanaa. He was a weaver|
132710447|/articles/13494-shalom-of-vienna|Austrian Rabbiner; lived at Wiener-Neustadt in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was distinguished for Talmudic learning, and was the first|
1055405054|/articles/13492-shalom-abraham-ben-isaac-ben-judah-ben-samuel|Italian scholar and theologian; died in 1492. In his "Neweh Shalom" (1574) he places Scriptural and Talmudic knowledge far above philosophy,|
119258854|/articles/13498-shammai|Scholar of the first century B.C. He was the most eminent contemporary and the halakic opponent of Hillel, and is almost invariably mentioned along|
119053306|/articles/13505-shapira-m-w|Polish purveyor of spurious antiquities; born about 1830; committed suicide at Rotterdam March 11, 1884. He appears to have been converted to|
138487286|/articles/13532-shein-pavel-vasilyevich|Russian ethnographer; born in 1826; died at Riga Aug. 14, 1900. He studied at the University of Moscow, and after conversion to Protestantism he|
136520952|/articles/13543-shem-tob-ben-abraham-ibn-gaon|Settles in Safed. Spanish Talmudist and cabalist; born at Soria, Spain, 1283; died, probably in Palestine, after 1330. From his genealogy given in|
1047943557|/articles/13597-shklovski-isaac-vladimirovich|Russian journalist; born at Yelisavetgrad in 1865. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and at the age of sixteen began to|
138262322|/articles/13617-shulman-naphtali-herz|Russian Hebrew author; born at Stary Bychow; died at Amsterdam about 1830. He edited Mussafia's "Zeker Rab" (Shklov, 1797), with an index of the|
117465704|/articles/13631-sichel-jules|French oculist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1802; died at Paris Nov. 14, 1868. He studied medicine at Berlin (M. D. 1825), and took a postgraduate|
117364258|/articles/13643-siegfried-karl|German Protestant theologian; born at Magdeburg Jan. 22, 1830; died at Jena Jan. 9, 1903. In 1875 he became professor of theology at the University|
123290708|/articles/13644-siesby-gottlieb|Danish poet and editor; born in Copenhagen May 4, 1803; died there Nov. 28, 1884; brother of Oskar Siesby. His first publication was a collection of|
139961585|/articles/13658-silberstein-otvos-adolf|Hungarian art critic and writer; born at Budapest July 1, 1845; died there Jan. 12, 1899. After graduating from the gymnasium of his native city he|
1027647871|/articles/13659-silberstein-michael|German Rabbiner; born at Witzenhausen, Hesse-Nassau, Nov. 21, 1834; educated in his native town, in Hanover, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of|
1166886794|/articles/13660-silberstein-solomon|American philosophical writer; born at Kovno, Russia, March 10, 1845. Educated privately, he received the Rabbinernical diploma in 1864, and officiated|
118797239|/articles/13663-silva-antonio-jose-da|Portuguese poet; born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 8, 1705; died at the stake in Lisbon Oct. 19, 1739; son of Jaão Mendes da Silva. He was|
1057419206|/articles/13668-silva-samuel-da|Physician of Portuguese birth who lived in Amsterdam in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He is known especially through his energetic|
124813631|/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai|Pupil of Akiba. Tanna of the second century; supposed author of the Zohar; born in Galilee; died, according to tradition, at Meron, on the 18th of|
1089707290|/articles/13728-simhah-freudemann-ephraim-ben-gershon-ben-simeon-ben-isaiah-ha-kohen|Rabbi in Belgrade; born about 1622; died 1669. He succeeded his teacher Judah Lerma as Rabbiner at Belgrade, and wrote a preface to the latter's|
1053162421|/articles/13734-simhah-b-samuel-of-vitry|Compiles the Vitry Maḥzor. French Talmudist of the eleventh and twelfth centuries; died in 1105. He was a pupil of Rashi and the compiler of the|
119116529|/articles/13752-simon-simedl-simoncino-of-trent|Child victim of an alleged ritual murder by the Jews of Trent. He was the son of Andreas Unverdosben, a cobbler, or tanner, in Trent, and was born|
117392499|/articles/13740-simon-gustav|German surgeon; born at Darmstadt May 30, 1824; died at Heidelberg Aug. 28, 1876. He studied at Heidelberg and Giessen (M.D. 1848). From 1848 to|
103515031X|/articles/13748-simon-moritz-alexander|German Bankier and philanthropist; born at Hanover Nov. 27, 1837; died there 1905. Educated at his native town, he became associated there with the|
117629863|/articles/13749-simon-oskar|German dermatologist; born at Berlin Jan. 2, 1845; died at Breslau March 2, 1882. Educated in his native city (M.D. 1868), he took a postgraduate|
118805185|/articles/13751-simon-richard|French scholar and Orientalist; born at Dieppe May 13, 1638; died there April 21, 1721. After studying at the Sorbonne he joined the Congregation of|
119131447|/articles/13755-simonsen-david-jacob|Danish Rabbiner and author; born in Copenhagen March 17, 1853. He studied at the Von Westenske Institut in his native city, at the same time receiving|
117398411|/articles/13757-simonyi-sigmund|Hungarian linguist; born at Veszprim Jan. 1, 1853; studied at Esztergom, Budapest, Leipsic, Berlin, and Paris; he has embraced Christianity. In 1877|
118614584|/articles/13759-simson-martin-eduard-von|German jurist and statesman; born Nov. 10, 1810, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died at Berlin May 22, 1899. Educated at the universities of|
117401625|/articles/13771-singer-edmund|Hungarian violinist; born at Totis, Hungary, Oct. 14, 1831; pupil successively of Ellinger, Ridley Kohne, and Joseph Böhm (violin), and of Preyer|
117402273|/articles/13772-singer-isidor|Austrian economist; born in Budapest Jan. 16, 1857; removed to Vienna with his parents in 1861. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the|
151309280|/articles/13773-singer-isidore|Austrian author and editor, and originator of The Jewish Encyclopedia; born in Weisskirchen, Moravia, Nov. 10, 1859; educated in the high schools of|
117402516|/articles/13775-singer-maximilian|Austrian botanist, zoologist, and author; born at Leipnik Feb. 6, 1857 (Ph.D. Vienna, 1883). He made a specialty of botany and zoology and published|
117630373|/articles/13776-singer-paul|German Social Democrat and deputy; born in Berlin Jan. 16, 1844. After having attended the real-school of his native city he entered upon a|
118797417|/articles/13777-singer-samuel|Philologist; born in Vienna July 12, 1860; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (LL.D. 1884; Ph.D. 1885). In 1891 he became|
172782317|/articles/13778-singer-simeon|English Rabbiner; born in London 1848. He was educated at Jews' College, received his Rabbinernical diploma in 1890, and has occupied successively the|
131525301|/articles/13782-sinzheim-joseph-david|First Rabbiner of Strasburg; born in 1745; died at Paris Feb. 11, 1812; son of R. Isaac Sinzheim of Treves and brother-in-law of Herz Cerfbeer. He was|
103092714|/articles/13788-sirkes-joel-b-samuel|Polish Rabbiner; born at Lublin in 1561; died at Cracow, 1640. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the yeshibah of Solomon ben Judah. After remaining|
100338178|/articles/13792-sixtus-senensis|Italian convert to Christianity and anti-Talmudic agitator; born at Sienna (whence his name) in 1520; died in 1569. After his conversion Sixtus|
13373627X|/articles/13802-slonik-benjamin-aaron-b-abraham|Polish Talmudist; born about 1550; died after 1619. His signature appears invariably as "Benjamin Aaron ben Abraham ," the last name in|
120232219|/articles/13804-slonimski-hayyim-selig|Russian author, scientist, and inventor; born in Byelostok March 31, 1810; died in Warsaw May 15, 1904. Slonimski was the first to teach the Jews in|
124433758|/articles/13812-smolenskin-peter-perez-ben-moses|At Moghilef and Odessa. Russian writer; born at Monastyrshchina, government of Moghilef, Feb. 25, 1842; died at Meran, Austria, Feb. 1, 1885. At the|
115842934|/articles/13818-sobernheim-joseph-friedrich|German physician and author of medical works; born at Königsberg in 1803; died at Berlin Jan. 30, 1846. He published at Berlin, where he had settled|
120767473|/articles/13836-sokolow-nahum-b-joseph-samuel|Russian journalist; born in Wishograd, government of Plock, Russian Poland, Jan. 10, 1859. His father, a descendant of Nathan Shapira, author of|
1137282622|/articles/13851-solomon-ben-abraham-ha-kohen-of-seres-maharshak|Oriental Talmudist; lived at Salonica in the second half of the sixteenth century. His teacher was Joseph Firman. He was the author of "She'elot|
133803139|/articles/13872-solomon-ben-judah-of-lunel|Provençal Philosoph; born in 1411. His Provençalname was Solomon Vives. When he was only thirteen years of age he composed, under the direction of|
13145188X|/articles/13893-solomon-simeon|English painter; born at Bristol 1834; died at London March 15, 1905; brother of Abraham Solomon. He early showed signs of artistic ability, and|
1128626802|/articles/13894-solomon-solomon-joseph|English painter; born in London Sept. 16, 1860. He received his artistic training at Heatherly's, at the schools of the Royal Academy, at the|
137293429|/articles/13906-soloveichik-joseph-baer|Russian Talmudist and Rabbiner; born at Nieswish, Russia, 1820; died May 1, 1892. At an early age he was sent to Volozhin, where he studied under R.|
118819127|/articles/13907-solovyev-vladimir-sergeyevich|Russian publicist and friend of the Jews; born 1853; died in 1900. In an article, "Rossiya i Yevropa," he opposed the attitude of the Slavyanophil|
129307211|/articles/13909-somekh-abdallah-abraham-joseph|Rabbi of Bagdad; born in that city 1813; died there 1889. He was educated by Rabbis Jacob Joseph ha-Rofe and Moses Ḥayyim, the latter of whom held|
118751484|/articles/13919-sonnemann-leopold|German journalist; born at Höchberg, Lower Franconia; Oct. 29, 1831. After having acquired considerable wealth as a merchant, he founded in 1856 the|
119343207|/articles/13922-sonnenthal-adolf-ritter-von|Austrian actor; born at Budapest Dec. 21, 1834. He was the son of humble parents, and spent his boyhood as a tailor's apprentice, working at his|
1053291213|/articles/13923-sonneschein-solomon-h|American Rabbiner; born at Szent Marton Turocz, Hungary, June 24, 1839. He received his education at Boskowitz, Moravia, where he obtained his|
1020412569|/articles/13931-sossnitz-joseph-judah-lob|Russian-American Talmudic scholar, mathematician, and scientific author; born at Birzhi, government of Kovno, Sept. 17, 1837. When he was only ten|
128992077|/articles/13939-spaeth-johann-peter-moses-germanus|Leaves Catholicism for Lutheranism. Convert to Judaism; born at Venice in the first half of the seventeenth century; died at Amsterdam April 27,|
119256363|/articles/13948-spektor-isaac-elhanan|Early Struggles. Russian Rabbiner and author; born at Rosh, government of Grodno, 1817; died at Kovno March 6, 1896. His father, Israel Issar, who was|
117493171|/articles/13953-speyer-jacob-samuel|Dutch philologist; born at Amsterdam Dec. 20, 1849. He studied at Amsterdam and at Leyden (Ph.D. 1872); and thereafter officiated as teacher at|
13476885X|/articles/13955-spicker-max|German musician; born at Königsberg, Prussia, Aug. 16, 1858. Educated at the Conservatorium, Leipsic, he in 1878 traveled with the violinist Miska|
117649600|/articles/13959-spielmann-marion-h|English author and art critic; born in London May 22, 1858; educated at University College School and University College, London. He began his|
118798286|/articles/13961-spingarn-joel-elias|American educator; born in New York city May 17, 1875. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1895, and took postgraduate courses at Harvard|
118616242|/articles/13964-spinoza-baruch-benedict-de-spinoza|Dutch philospher and Biblical critic; born at Amsterdam Nov. 24, 1632; died at The Hague Feb. 21, 1677. The family name is derived from the town of|
1067993282|/articles/13969-spitz-abraham-naphtali-hirsch-ben-moses-ha-levi|Moravian Rabbiner; born about 1628; died at Worms in 1712. In 1663 he was appointed Rabbiner of a Moravian congregation, and in 1692 dayyan at Nikolsburg,|
1037586301|/articles/13974-spitz-zebi-hirsch|German author and Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Dibre Ḥakamim we-Ḥidotam" (Offenbach, 1802), a commentary on those passages of the|
140525483|/articles/13975-spitzer-benjamin-solomon|Austrian Rabbiner and champion of Orthodoxy; died in Vienna, at an advanced age, Dec. 5, 1893. He was the son-in-law of R. Moses Sofer, and was for|
138483345|/articles/13978-spitzer-sigmund|Austrian physician; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, 1813; died at Vienna 1894. Two years after receiving his degree of doctor of medicine from the|
117649902|/articles/13979-spitzer-simon|Austrian mathematician; born at Vienna Feb. 3, 1826; died there April 2, 1887. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, was graduated in|
117194743|/articles/13982-stade-bernhard|German Protestant Hebraist and historian of Israel; born in Arnstadt May 11, 1848. He became privat-docent in the University of Leipsic in 1873, and|
140509488|/articles/13983-stadthagen-joseph|German Rabbiner, apologist, and author; died at Stadthagen Sept. 5, 1715; son of Samson of Metz, where his grandfather Joseph b. Isaac ha-Levi|
118616641|/articles/13985-stahl-friedrich-julius|German jurist and publicist; born at Munich Jan. 16, 1802; died at Brückenau Aug. 10, 1861. In his eighteenth year he took the examination for the|
117203661|/articles/13986-stahl-wilhelm|German economist; born at Munich June 2, 1812; died at Giessen March 19, 1873. While still very young he lost both parents, and was cared for in the|
117652660|/articles/13995-staub-hermann|German jurist; born at Nikolai, Upper Silesia, March 21, 1856. After having studied for some time at the gymnasium at Beuthen he attended the|
137371438|/articles/14000-stein-abraham|German Rabbiner; born at Wanfried, Prussia, Jan. 13, 1818; died at Prague Sept. 18, 1884; studied at the Teachers' Seminary of Cassel (1832-34) and at|
117243027|/articles/14001-stein-leopold|German Rabbiner; born in Burgpreppach Nov. 3, 1810; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 2, 1882. After finishing his earlier education at Erlangen and|
117243426|/articles/14002-stein-ludwig|Hungarian Philosoph; born at Erdö-Benye, Hungary, Nov. 12, 1859; educated at the gymnasia of Papa, Saros-Potak, and Zwolle, at the universities of|
118942905|/articles/14003-stein-marc-aurel|Hungarian Orientalist and archeologist; born at Budapest in 1862; educated at Vienna, Tübingen, Oxford, and London. In 1888 he was appointed|
117244082|/articles/14005-stein-philipp|German author; born Dec. 3, 1853, at Königsberg. In 1864 his parents removed with him to Berlin. The death of his father there prevented him from|
129263958|/articles/14007-steinbach-emil|Austrian statesman; born at Vienna June 11, 1846. After graduating from the Vienna University (LL.D.) he established himself as a lawyer, becoming|
1055155546|/articles/14008-steinbach-josef|Austrian physician; born at Fünfkirchen, Hungary, Jan. 3, 1850. Educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the University of Vienna (M.D.|
173618049|/articles/14009-steinberg-joshua|Russian writer and educator; born in Wilna 1839. He was graduated from the Rabbinernical school of his native city, and then for a short time occupied|
117246891|/articles/14011-steindorff-georg|German Egyptologist; born at Dessau Nov. 12, 1861. He studied Oriental languages at Leipsic and Berlin, was appointed privat-docent at the|
119438631|/articles/14012-steiner-kilian-von|German financier; born at Laupheim in 1835; died at Stuttgart Sept. 24, 1903. At first attorney at law, he rose to the leadership of Württemberg|
117258059|/articles/14017-steinitz-clara|German authoress; born at Kobylin April 16, 1852. She was educated at Halle-on-the-Saale, and in 1873 married Siegfried Heinrich Steinitz. She has|
118617532|/articles/14018-steinitz-wilhelm|Chess champion of the world from 1866 to 1894; born at Prague, Bohemia, May 17, 1836; died, insane, on Wards Island, New York, June 22, 1900.|
118753355|/articles/14019-steinschneider-moritz|Austrian bibliographer and Orientalist; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, March 30, 1816. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father,|
118617583|/articles/14020-steinthal-hermann-heyman|German philologist and Philosoph; born at Gröbzig, Anhalt, May 16, 1823; died at Berlin March 14, 1899. He studied philology and philosophy at the|
137841906|/articles/14025-stern-szterenyi-albert|Hungarian Rabbiner; born at Nagy-Kanizsa in 1826; died in the insane asylum at Ofen June 16, 1888; educated at Presburg and Ofen. Stern, who was the|
1112270728|/articles/14023-stern-abraham|Polish inventor and educator; born at Hrubieszow, government of Lublin, 1769; died at Warsaw Feb. 3, 1842. He was the son of poor parents, and|
110700805|/articles/14024-stern-adolf|German poet and historian of literature; born at Leipsic June 14, 1835. He studied philosophy and history at Leipsic and Jena, and resided from 1853|
117274003|/articles/14026-stern-alfred|German historian; born Nov. 22, 1846, at Göttingen, where his father, Moriz Abraham Stern (1807-94), was professor of mathematics (see|
117658316|/articles/14031-stern-julius|German musician; born at Breslau Aug. 8, 1820; died at Berlin Feb. 27, 1883. He received his elementary education in music from the violinist Peter|
133672727|/articles/14032-stern-karoline|German prima donna; born at Mayence April 10, 1800; date of death unknown. She studied first under her father, a violinist of repute, and then under|
1103139800|/articles/14033-stern-louis|American merchant and Politiker; born at Ziegenhain, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, Feb. 22, 1847. Together with his parents he emigrated to America in|
118798758|/articles/14034-stern-louis-william|German psychologist; born in Berlin April 29, 1871; educated at the Kölnische Gymnasium and at the university of his native city (Ph.D. 1893). He|
127650881|/articles/14035-stern-max-emanuel-mendel-bri-stern|Hungarian Hebraist; born at Presburg Nov. 9. 1811; died at Vienna Feb. 9, 1873. He studied under his father, who was a teacher at the Jewish primary|
117276936|/articles/14036-stern-moriz-abraham|German mathematician; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main June 29, 1807; died at Bern, Switzerland, Jan. 30, 1894. He studied philology at the University|
1172549435|/articles/14038-stern-simon-adler|American author, editor, and critic; born in Philadelphia 1838; died May 2, 1904. As a boy he displayed marked talent as a violinist, in spite of|
1019651016|/articles/14039-stern-victor|Austrian dramatist; born at Vienna May 5, 1837. After a brief experience in commercial life he turned to literature, receiving in his new vocation|
101222548|/articles/14044-stettenheim-julius|German humorist; born at Hamburg Nov. 2, 1831. He at first pursued a commercial career, but went in 1857 to Berlin, where he studied until 1860.|
117243779|/articles/14046-stiassny-wilhelm|Austrian architect; born in Vienna Oct. 15, 1842. He was graduated from the Vienna Polytechnic in 1861, and thereupon studied for five years at the|
119396289|/articles/14047-stieglitz-heinrich|German writer; born at Arolsen, Waldeck, Feb. 22, 1801; died at Venice Aug. 23, 1849. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen and Leipsic,|
1055139257|/articles/14048-stieglitz-julius-oscar|American chemist; born at Hoboken, N. J., May 26, 1867; educated in the public schools of New York, the real-gymnasium of Carlsruhe, and the|
117248290|/articles/14049-stieglitz-ludwig-von|Russian Bankier; born in Arolsen, Waldeck, Germany, in 1778; died at St. Petersburg March 18, 1843. He emigrated to Russia when a young man, was|
127792716|/articles/14051-stiller-bertalan|Hungarian physician; born at Miskolez June 23, 1837; studied at Budapest and Vienna (M.D. 1863). In 1864 he was appointed assistant physician at the|
117259438|/articles/14052-stilling-benedikt|German anatomist and surgeon; born at Kirchhayn, Hesse, Feb. 22, 1810; died at Cassel Jan. 28, 1879. He studied at the University of Marburg, and,|
117259500|/articles/14053-stilling-jakob|German ophthalmologist; born at Cassel Sept. 22, 1842; son of Benedikt Stilling. He studied at the universities of Marburg (M.D. 1865), Würzburg,|
117260614|/articles/14054-stobbe-johann-ernst-otto|Christian historian of the Jews; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, June 28, 1831; died at Leipsic May 19, 1887. He studied philology and history,|
118618393|/articles/14056-stocker-adolf|German Protestant theologian, Politiker, and anti-Semitic agitator; born at Halberstadt Dec. 11, 1835. He studied at the universities of Halle and|
117674095|/articles/14058-stokvis-barend-joseph|Dutch physician; born at Amsterdam Aug. 16, 1834; died Sept. 28, 1902; son of the physician J. B. Stokvis (1808-87). He studied at the Latin school|
117265977|/articles/14063-stork-karl|Austrian laryngologist; born at Ofen, Hungary, Sept. 17, 1832; died at Vienna Sept. 13, 1899. He studied at the universities of Prague and Vienna,|
119402734|/articles/14064-strack-hermann-leberecht|German Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848. Since 1877 he has been assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and|
117306207|/articles/14065-strakosch-alexander|Hungarian actor and dramatic teacher; born at Sebes, near Eperies, Hungary, Dec. 3, 1845. After a brief trial of commercial life he went on the|
117306282|/articles/14066-strakosch-moritz|Austrian pianist, singer, and impresario; born at Brünn, Austria, 1825; died at Paris Oct. 9, 1887. He made his first appearance in public at the|
12843452X|/articles/14070-strashun-mathias|Russian Talmudist and writer; born in Wilna Oct. 1, 1817; died Dec. 13, 1885. He studied under Manasseh of Ilye and Isaac of Volozhin, who were|
142125725|/articles/14071-strashun-samuel-b-joseph|Russian Talmudist; born in Zaskevich, government of Wilna, 1794; died in Wilna March 21, 1872. He was educated by his father, and became known as a|
1047378477|/articles/14074-strauss-adolf|Hungarian geographer and ethnologist; born at Cece, Hungary, May 15, 1853; educated at Fehervar and Budapest; in the latter city he frequented the|
117318477|/articles/14082-stricker-salomon|Austrian pathologist; born at Waag-Neustadt, Hungary, 1834; died at Vienna April 2, 1898. He received his education at the University of Vienna,|
118619411|/articles/14086-strousberg-bethel-henry-baruch-hirsch|German railway contractor; born at Neidenburg, East Prussia, Nov. 20, 1823; died at Berlin June 1, 1884. After an unsuccessful business career in|
119515865|/articles/14088-struck-hermann|German painter; born at Berlin March 6, 1876. He was originally destined for a Rabbinernical career, but soon showed marked talent for drawing and|
124860206|/articles/14105-sullam-sara-copia-coppio|Italian poetess; born in Venice 1592; died there Adar 5 (Feb. 14); 1641; eldest daughter of Simon and Rebecca Coppio. Her father was a man of|
118809571|/articles/14109-sulzer-salomon|Austrian cantor and composer; born at Hohenems, Tyrol, March 30, 1804; died at Vienna Jan. 17, 1890. His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name|
142512621|/articles/14137-sussmann-shabbethai-ben-eliezer|Scholar of the eighteenth century. He compiled under the title "Me'ir Natib" (Altona, 1793-1802) a general index, in three volumes, to the tosafot|
102688850|/articles/14138-sutro-abraham|German Rabbiner; born at Brück, near Erlangen, July 5, 1784; died at Münster Oct. 10, 1869. He studied in the yeshibot of Fürth and Prague, and was in|
119067110|/articles/14139-sutro-adolph-heinrich-joseph|V11p605001.jpgSüsskind of Trimberg Before Church Dignitaries.(From a thirteenth-century manuscript.)American mechanical engineer; born at|
1055258485|/articles/14141-sutro-theodore|American lawyer; born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, March 14, 1845. When only five years of age he emigrated with his parents to the United States,|
119290944|/articles/14154-sylvester-james-joseph|English mathematician and Savilian professor of geometry in the University of Oxford; born in London Sept. 3, 1814; died there March 15, 1897. He|
102406960|/articles/14156-symmachus|Translator of the Bible into Greek; flourished at the end of the second or the beginning of the third century of the common era. According to|
1049701720|/articles/14171-szabolcsi-max|Hungarian author; born at Tura Aug. 27, 1857. In his youth he studied Talmud, and for a short time attended the Rabbinernical seminary at Budapest,|
117391492|/articles/14173-szanto-emil|Austrian philologist; born at Vienna Nov. 22, 1857; died there Dec. 14, 1904; son of Simon Szanto. He studied at the University of Vienna (Ph. D.),|
1050113845|/articles/14174-szanto-simon|Hungarian journalist; born at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, Aug. 23, 1819; died in Vienna Jan. 17, 1882. He was a son of Rabbi Meïr Szanto, and when only|
1055391401|/articles/14180-szold-benjamin|American Rabbiner and scholar; a leader of the conservative wing of the Reform movement in America; born at Nemiskert, county of Neutra, Hungary, Nov.|
101948747X|/articles/14191-tabori-robert|Hungarian author; born at Almas Nov. 10, 1855; educated at Baja, Budapest, and Vienna. He began his literary career in 1874 as a journalist on the|
173969577|/articles/14219-tam-jacob-b-david-ibn-yahya|Portuguese-Turkish Rabbiner and physician; born in Portugal in the second half of the fifteenth century;died in Constantinople between 1534 and 1542.|
136219144|/articles/14241-tannenbaum-abner|Yiddish and Hebrew journalist; born at Schirwind, East Prussia, March 1, 1848. He studied in Kamenetz-Podolsk and in the Kisbinef Lyceum, and was|
118877208|/articles/14244-tanzer-aaron|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Presburg, Hungary, Jan. 30, 1871; studied at the Presburg Rabbinerschule, and Oriental philology and history at the|
118620843|/articles/14252-tarrasch-siegbert|German physician and chess-master; born at Breslau March 5, 1862; studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Halle, and Nuremberg, in which|
119317826|/articles/14267-tausig-carl|Polish pianist and composer; born at Warsaw [Nov. 4, 1841; died at Leipsic July 17, 1871. He received his early musical education from his father,|
117248207|/articles/14269-tauwitz-eduard|German composer; born Jan. 21, 1812, at Glatz; died July 26, 1894, at Prague. While studying law at the University of Breslau he devoted himself to|
123100291|/articles/14271-tawus-jacob-b-joseph|Persian translator of the Bible; flourished in the sixteenth century. The polyglot Pentateuch printed at Constantinople in 1546 included a Persian|
119152215|/articles/14276-taylor-charles|English Christian Hebraist; born in London 1840; educated at King's College, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he is now master.|
136502156|/articles/14324-te-omim-joseph-ben-meir|Galician Rabbiner; born at Lemberg in 1727; died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1793. While still young he succeeded his father in the position of|
1048451216|/articles/14280-tedeschi-marco|Italian Rabbiner and poet; born at Piova, Piedmont, in 1817; died at Triest in1870. He removed to Vercelli with his father (d. 1836), who had been|
141655542|/articles/14281-tedeschi-moses-isaac|Italian translator, Biblical commentator, and teacher; born at Triest June 6, 1821; died there June 17, 1898. He lectured on Biblical exegesis in|
117250538|/articles/14282-tedesco-ignaz-amadeus|Austrian pianist; born at Prague 1817; died at Odessa Nov. 13, 1882; a pupil of Triebensee and Tomaschek at Prague. He made numerous successful|
128734280|/articles/14289-teixeira-pedro|Portuguese traveler; born at Lisbon of Marano parents; died about the middle of the seventeenth century either at Verona (according to De Barrios,|
140077286|/articles/14294-telcs-eduard|Hungarian sculptor; born at Baja May 12, 1872. At the age of twelve he went to Budapest and studied decorative art, but he soon left that city for|
11725455X|/articles/14297-teller-leopold|Hungarian actor; born at Budapest April 3, 1844. For a time he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, but in 1862 he went to Laibach, where|
1055382550|/articles/14311-templer-bernhard|Austrian theologian; born at Brzesko, Galicia, May 1, 1865; educated at the University and the Bet ha-Midrash of Vienna, and at the Hochschule für|
1074263693|/articles/14318-tenczer-paul|Hungarian author; born at Nagy Bejom April 11, 1836; died at Budapest Feb. 6, 1905. He was educated at Keszthely and in Budapest, where he studied|
117616133|/articles/14337-terquem-olry|French mathematician; born at Metz June 16, 1782; died at Paris May 6, 1862. In 1801 he began his studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, where|
117296023|/articles/14349-teweles-heinrich|Austrian dramatist; born at Prague Nov. 13, 1856. He made his début in 1881 with a drama entitled "Die Schauspielerin." His other works are: "Kampf|
139551344|/articles/14357-theodor-julius-judah|German Rabbiner; born Dec. 28, 1849, at Schmalleningken, East Prussia. He studied philosophy and Orientalia at the University of Breslau and Rabbinernica|
118621688|/articles/14359-theodore-of-mopsuestia|Christian bishop and Church father; born and educated at Antioch; died at Mopsuestia about 429; teacher of Nestorius and Theodoret, and the foremost|
117348244|/articles/14373-thomas-emile-emil-tobias|German actor; born at Berlin Nov. 24, 1836. Thomas has had a most varied career. He made his début in 1852 with the company of Pitterlin, which|
13274757X|/articles/14375-thomashefski-boris|Judæo-German actor; born at Kiev May 30, 1866. He went to New York to seek work in 1881 and soon organized a Jewish troop which played in Turn Hall,|
117381659|/articles/14391-tietz-hermann|German Rabbiner; born at Birnbaum, Posen, Germany, Sept. 3, 1834, and educatedat the University of Berlin (Ph. D. Halle). He was Rabbiner in Schrimm, and|
10343917X|/articles/14397-tiktiner-rebecca-bat-meir|Austrian authoress of the sixteenth century; flourished at Prague, where she died, apparently in 1550. She wrote two works: (1) "Meneḳet Ribḳah"|
118622951|/articles/14412-titus|Emperor of Rome from 79 to 81; born in 39 or 41; died Sept. 13, 81; son of Vespasian, the conqueror of Jerusalem. He was educated at the courts of|
120253291|/articles/14419-tobiah-ben-eliezer|A Bulgarian. Talmudist and poet of the eleventh century; author of the "Leḳaḥ Ṭob" or "Pesiḳta Zuṭarta," a midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch|
1076883311|/articles/14424-todesco-hermann|Austrian financier and philanthropist; born at Presburg 1792; died there Nov. 23, 1844. At first engaging in the silk trade, he later won fame and|
106825307X|/articles/14429-todros-ben-meshullam-ben-david|Provençal translator; born at Arles in the early part of the fourteenth century. Of his life no details are known except that in 1337 he lived at|
115630791|/articles/14452-torre-lelio-hillel-della|Italian Rabbiner and educator; born in Cuneo, Piedmont, Jan. 11, 1805; died in Padua July 9, 1871. His father, Solomon Jehiel Raphael ha-Kohen, died in|
128384603|/articles/14464-touro-judah|American philanthropist; born at Newport, R. I., June 16, 1775; died at New Orleans, La., Jan. 13, 1854; son of Rev. Isaac Touro and Reyna Hays. His|
118973304|/articles/14467-toy-crawford-howell|American Christian Orientalist; born at Norfolk, Va., March 23, 1836. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and studied Orientalia at the|
12248567X|/articles/14483-traube-ludwig|German physician and medical author; born at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 18, 1818; died at Berlin April 11, 1876; elder brother of Moritz|
123650836|/articles/14484-traubel-horace|American editor; born at Camden, N. J., Dec. 19, 1858; educated in the public schools of his native town. In 1892 he was appointed, jointly with|
128680547|/articles/14495-tremellius-john-immanuel|Italian Hebraist; born at Ferrara 1510; died at Sedan Oct. 9, 1580. He was educated at the University of Padua. He was converted about 1540 to the|
1071332538|/articles/14509-trier-ernst-johannes|Danish educator; born in Copenhagen Jan. 23, 1837; died at Vallekilde Dec. 29, 1893. He was graduated from the University of Copenhagen (B.D. 1863),|
1157050298|/articles/14511-trier-herman|Danish educator, writer, and Politiker; born in Copenhagen May 10, 1845. He received his early education at the Von Westenske Institut, later|
121216071|/articles/14513-trier-seligmann-meyer|Danish physician; born in Copenhagen June 7, 1800; died there Dec. 20, 1863. He was the son of poor parents, who destined him for a mercantile|
117418323|/articles/14515-triesch-friedrich-gustav|Austrian dramatist; born at Vienna June 16, 1845. Triesch studied sculpture for a time at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, but soon turned|
133120929|/articles/14518-trillinger-eliezer-ben-joseph-yospa|Austrian Rabbiner; lived in the latter half of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at Wilna. The name "Trillinger" is|
11763641X|/articles/14522-tristram-henry-baker|English clergyman, Biblical scholar, and traveler in Palestine; born May 11, 1822, at Eglingham, Northumberland. He was educated at Durham School|
137738056|/articles/14539-tugendhold-jacob|Russian educator and author; born in Breslau 1791; died at Warsaw April 20, 1871. Realizing that education was one of the best means for improving|
1099736056|/articles/14541-tull-edmund|Hungarian artist; born at Szekesfejervar 1870. He was educated at Budapest, Milan, and Paris, being in the last-named city a pupil of J. P. Laurens|
1015180019|/articles/14547-turteltaub-wilhelm|Austrian physician and poet; born at Rzeszow, Galicia, March 25, 1816. At the age of twelve he wrote a comedy in imitation of Kotzebue's "Sorgen|
119120577|/articles/14551-tychsen-olaus-gerhard|Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Tondern in Sleswick, Denmark, Dec. 14, 1734; died at Rostock, Germany, Dec. 30, 1815. He studied|
143965824|/articles/14559-uceda-samuel-ben-israel-de|Palestinian commentator and preacher; born at Safed in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. His name, Uçeda, originally was derived from the|
1013481070|/articles/14561-ugolino-blaisio|Italian polyhistor; born at Venice about 1700. He is stated to have been a Jewish convert, and was certainly well acquainted with Talmudic|
117680532|/articles/14580-unger-ephraim-solomon|German educator and writer; born at Coswig-on-the-Elbe March 8, 1789; died Nov. 1, 1870. He studied philosophy, mathematics, and natural science at|
138076200|/articles/14581-unger-joachim-jacob|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Homona, Hungary, Nov. 25, 1826; studied at the University of Berlin (Ph.D. 1859), and was appointed Rabbiner of Iglau, Moravia,|
118763725|/articles/14582-unger-joseph|Austrian jurist and statesman; born in Vienna July 2, 1828. Having studied law at the university of his native city, he in 1850 was appointed|
117293369|/articles/14583-unger-manasse|German art critic; born in Coswig-on-the-Elbe March 14, 1802; died at Berlin May 17, 1868. When he was only four years of age his parents moved to|
118625500|/articles/14595-unna-paul-gerson|German physician and dermatologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 8, 1850; son of Moritz Adolph Unna; educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipsic,|
119855208;120439387|/articles/14604-uri-ori-ben-simeon|Scholar of the sixteenth century; born at Biel (); resided at Safed. He made an abstract of a manuscript of 1537, giving a list of all the|
107248806X|/articles/14603-uri-phoebus-ben-aaron-ha-levi|Dutch printer; born at Amsterdam 1623; died there Jan. 27, 1715 (not at Zolkiev in 1713, as Steinschneider records); son of Aaron ha-Levi, ḥazzan at|
124029922|/articles/14613-usishkin-michael|One of the leaders of the Russian Zionists; born in 1863 in Dubrovna, government of Moghilef (Mohilev). In 1871 he went with his parents to Moscow.|
117325589|/articles/14625-valabregue-albin|French dramatist; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Dec. 17, 1853. He is one of the most prolific of modern French dramatists, producing about two plays|
10404103X|/articles/14629-valentin-gabriel-gustav|German physiologist; born at Breslau July, 1810; died at Bern, Switzerland, May 24, 1883. He was educated at the University of Breslau (M.D. 1832),|
1089704399|/articles/14631-valerio-samuel-ben-judah|Physician and author who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote the following works: "Yad ha-Melek,"|
136749895|/articles/14632-vali-valle-moses-david|Italian Rabbiner and physician; born at Padua; died there 1777. He was a cabalistic scholar of repute, and lectured before the Paduan association known|
119017385|/articles/14637-vambery-arminius|Hungarian traveler and Orientalist; born at Duna-Szerdahely, on the island of Schütt, near Presburg, March 19, 1832. He was apprenticed at the age|
1156576067|/articles/14641-van-oven-joshua|English surgeon and communal worker; born in England 1766; died in Liverpool 1838; son of Abraham Van Oven. He was trained for the medical|
118767380|/articles/14650-vatke-johann-karl-wilhelm|Christian Hebraist; born March 14, 1806, at Behndorf, Saxony; died in Berlin April 19, 1882. After studying in Halle, Göttingen, and Berlin he|
1015957021|/articles/14652-vazsonyi-wilhelm|Hungarian publicist and deputy; born at Sümegh (Sümeg) 1868. He was educated at Budapest, where his remarkable eloquence made him the leader of all|
137406258|/articles/14654-vecinho-vizino-joseph|Portuguese court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, under whom he studied mathematics|
117360430|/articles/14658-veigelsberg-leo|Hungarian publicist; born at Nagy-Boldogasszony Jan. 18, 1846; educated at Kis-Körös, Budapest, and Vienna. For a short time he taught in the Jewish|
117368229|/articles/14660-veit-johannes|German painter; born in Berlin 1790; died at Rome 1854. He studied at Vienna and at Rome, where he especially took Vanucci for his model. Together|
118804111|/articles/14661-veit-philipp|German portrait- and genre-painter; born Feb. 13, 1793, in Berlin; died Dec. 18, 1877, at Mayence. His father died while he was a child; and his|
12954759X|/articles/14665-venetianer-ludwig|Hungarian Rabbiner and writer; born May 19, 1867, at Kecskemet. He studied at the Rabbinernical seminary and the University of Budapest, and at the Jewish|
119269678|/articles/14669-ventura-rubino|Soldier; born at Finale, Modena, 1795; died at Toulouse, France, April 5, 1858. At the age of seventeen he was enrolled as a volunteer in the|
1065662742|/articles/14670-venture-mardochee|French scholar; flourished at Avignon in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with Isaiah Vidal he composed the "Seder|
1074856198|/articles/14684-verveer-elchanan|Dutch painter and vignette-engraver; born at The Hague April 19, 1826. He received instruction from his brother Samuel L. Verveer, and from H. F. C.|
143956841|/articles/14685-verveer-samuel-leonardus|Dutch landscape- and genre-painter; born at The Hague Nov. 30, 1813; died there Jan. 5, 1876. He was a pupil of B. J. van den Hove. Verveer traveled|
127806385|/articles/14690-veszi-joseph|Hungarian editor and deputy; born at Arad Nov. 6, 1858. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and studied philosophy, literature, and|
1055411275|/articles/14695-vidal-of-tolosa|Spanish scholar of the latter half of the fourteenth century. He resided in Catalonia, where he prepared his most important work, "Maggid Mishneh,"|
123382521|/articles/14715-vital-david-b-solomon-vital-ha-rofe|Spanish scholar; emigrated from Spain in the early part of the sixteenth century; died at Arta, or Narda, in Greece, after 1536. He went first to|
118768778|/articles/14719-vitringa-campegius-the-elder|Dutch Christian Hebraist; born at Leeuwarden May 16, 1669; died at Franeker March 31, 1722. He was educated at the universities of Franeker and|
139792589|/articles/14724-vogelstein-hermann|German Rabbiner and historian; born at Pilsen, Bohemia, Jan. 8, 1870. His father was Heinemann Vogelstein, Rabbiner of Stettin. Vogelstein received his|
118627813|/articles/14730-voltaire|French poet, historian, and essayist; born at Paris Nov. 21, 1694; died there May 30, 1778. His name was originally François Marie Arouet; but about|
173228305|/articles/14732-volterra-meshullam-ben-menahem|Italian jeweler of the fifteenth century. He lived in Florence, where he and his father, Menahem ben Aaron Volterra (who in 1460 was worth 100,000|
119090198|/articles/14744-wagenseil-johann-christoph|German Christian Hebraist; born at Nuremberg Nov. 26, 1633; died at Altdorf Oct. 9, 1705. In 1667 he was made professor of history at Altdorf, and|
118594117|/articles/14747-wagner-wilhelm-richard|German composer of music; born at Leipsic May 22, 1813; died at Venice Feb. 13, 1883. He commenced the study of music at the University of Leipsic,|
113168195|/articles/14748-wahb-ibn-munabbih-abu-abd-allah-al-sana-ani-al-dhimari|Mohammedan traditionist of Dhimar (two days' journey from Sanaa) in Yemen; died at the age of ninety, in a year variously given by Arabic|
1045983306|/articles/14750-wahl-moritz-callmann|German writer; born March 28, 1829, at Sondershausen; died Oct. 15, 1887. He studied Oriental languages at Leipsic under Julius Fürst and H. L.|
1033123269|/articles/14753-wahltuch-mark|Russian Philosoph and author; born at Odessa 1830; died at Pisa Jan. 27, 1901. He resided for many years in Ancona, Naples, Florence, Leghorn, and|
1050323475|/articles/14755-wahrmann-israel-b-solomon|Hungarian Rabbiner and Talmudist; born at Altofen, Hungary; died at Budapest June 24, 1824. He was called to the Rabbinernate of Pesth in 1799, and was|
108983036X|/articles/14759-walden-aaron-ben-isaiah-nathan|Polish Talmudist, editor, and author; born at Warsaw about 1835. Walden, who is an ardent adherent of Ḥasidism, is known especially for his "Shem|
102721378|/articles/14760-waldenburg-louis|German physician; born at Filehne, Posen, July 31, 1837; died at Berlin April 14, 1881; educated at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1860). After a|
11712012X|/articles/14762-waldstein-charles|Anglo-American archeologist; born in New York March 30, 1856. He was educated at Columbia College, New York city (A.M. 1873), and studied also at|
119314622|/articles/14763-waldteufel-emile|French composer; born at Strasburg Dec. 9, 1837. He commenced the study of music under the tuition of his father, a professional musician; later he|
130892858|/articles/14772-walton-bryan|Christian Hebraist; born in 1600 at Hilton, Yorkshire, England; died in London Nov. 29, 1661; educated at Magdalene and Peterhouse colleges,|
117142638|/articles/14781-warrens-rosa|Swedish poet and translator; born at Karlskrona Feb. 24, 1821; died at Copenhagen Nov. 8, 1878. At the age of five she went with her parents to|
1023025299|/articles/14790-wassertrilling-hermann-zebi-hirsch-ben-nathan|Austrian Hebraist; flourished in the nineteenth century; born at Boskowitz, Moravia. He officiated as teacher in the Jewish school of Hotzenplotz,|
117566470|/articles/14801-way-lewis|English clergyman; born at Denham, Bucks, England, Feb. 11, 1772; died in London Jan. 26, 1840. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was|
117235245|/articles/14819-weichselbaum-anton|Austrian physician; born at Schiltern, Lower Austria, Feb. 8, 1845. Educated at the Josefs-Akademie and the University of Vienna (M.D. 1869), he|
117249076|/articles/14820-weigert-karl|German pathologist; born at Münsterberg in Silesia March 19, 1845; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 5, 1904. He received his education at the|
117250694|/articles/14822-weil-adolf|German physician; born at Heidelberg Feb. 7, 1848. Educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Vienna (M.D. 1871), he settled in|
117251208|/articles/14823-weil-gustav|German Orientalist; born in Sulzburg, Baden, April 25, 1808; died at Freiburgim-Breisgau Aug. 29, 1889. Being destined for the Rabbinernate, he was|
117251232|/articles/14824-weil-henri|Philologist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 26, 1818; educated at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Leipsic. He went to France, and|
132165783|/articles/14825-weil-jacob|German Rabbiner and Talmudist; flourished during the first half of the fifteenth century. Of his life no details are known, but, according to Grätz, he|
117251305|/articles/14826-weil-jacob|German educationist and writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1792; died there Nov. 18, 1864. His first work was "Fragmente aus Talmud und|
117251496|/articles/14828-weil-karl-ritter-von|Austrian journalist; born in Württemberg, Germany; died at Vienna Jan. 7, 1878. He studied law at the University of Freiburg (LL.D. 1827), and|
1011348578|/articles/14829-weil-nethaneel|Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Stühlingen in 1687; died at Rostadt May 7, 1769; son of Naphtali Hirsch Weil. His mother took him to Fürth when he was|
137844263|/articles/14830-weil-simeon-hirsch|German scholar; son of Nethaneel Weil; lived in Carlsruhe in the eighteenth century. He published his father's "Netib Ḥayyim," "Torat Netan'el," and|
1012796779|/articles/14831-weil-tiah-jedidiah|German Rabbiner; born at Prague Oct. 2, 1721; died at Carlsruhe Oct. 10, 1805. He was the son of Nethaneel Weil and received his early instruction from|
115867449|/articles/14832-weill-alexandre-abraham|French writer; born at Schirhoffen, Alsace, May 10, 1811; died at Paris Oct. 18, 1898; grandson of R. Abraham Kellermeister. He was destined by his|
1055402519|/articles/14836-weill-michel-aaron|French Rabbiner; born at Strasburg July 19, 1814; died at Paris Jan. 6, 1889. He was educated at the Ecole Centrale Rabbinique at Metz, where he|
117261645|/articles/14837-weiller-lazare-jean|French manufacturer and author; born at Schlettstadt, Alsace, July 20, 1858; educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis of Paris and at the University of|
1109776071|/articles/14844-weiss-adolphe|French painter; born at Budapest May 11, 1838. He was educated at the School of Fine Arts in Vienna, and in 1860 went to Paris to complete his|
124721222|/articles/14845-weiss-isaac-hirsch|His Early Ability. Austrian Talmudist and historian of literature; born at Gross Meseritsch, Moravia, Feb. 9, 1815; died at Vienna June 1, 1905.|
117291382;1012560953|/articles/14847-weiss-leopold-w|German ophthalmologist; born at Giessen 1849. He was educated at the universities of Giessen (M.D. 1874), Tübingen, and Vienna; and from 1875 to|
1138328979|/articles/14849-weiss-max|Hungarian chess-player; born July 21, 1857, at Szered on the Waag. Removing to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and|
117298670|/articles/14850-weiss-wilhelm|Austrian mathematician; born at Ridka, Bohemia, Feb. 3, 1859; died at Prague June 18, 1904. He received his early education from his father, who was|
1014521327|/articles/14851-weissberg-isaac-jacob|Russo-Hebrew writer and pedagogue; born at Polonki, government of Minsk, 1841; died at Kiev 1904. He received his preliminary training in various|
119368609|/articles/14852-weissenberg-samuel-abramowitch|Russian physician and anthropologist; born in Yelizavetgrad, South Russia, Dec. 16, 1867. He attended the public school and the real-school of his|
139685510|/articles/14853-weissmann-asher-arthur-simhah|Austrian scholar and publicist; born at Zelynia, Galicia, April 21, 1840; died at Vienna May 14, 1892. He received a Rabbinernical training in his|
137836120|/articles/14854-weissmann-chajes-marcus|Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow, Galicia, 1830. He was destined for a Rabbinernical career, and began early to receive instruction in the Talmud and|
118630849|/articles/14859-wellhausen-julius|German Biblical critic and Semitist; born at Hameln May 17, 1844; educated in theology and Semitics at Göttingen (Ph.D. 1870), where he became|
1032342390|/articles/14862-werber-baruch|Austrian Hebraist; born at Brody, Galicia, in the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there July 31, 1876. Werber, who was a follower of Isaac|
1159244936|/articles/14863-werber-jacob|Austrian Hebraist; born at Brody, Galicia, Feb. 4, 1859; died there Aug. 20, 1890; son of Baruch Werber. When only fifteen years of age Jacob could|
1037568702|/articles/14866-wertheimer-john|English printer; born in London at the close of the eighteenth century; died there Dec. 18, 1883; senior member of the firm of Wertheimer, Lea + Co.|
117306215|/articles/14867-wertheimer-joseph-ritter-von|V12p502001.jpgJoseph Wertheimer.Austrian philanthropist and author; born at Vienna March 15, 1800; died there March 15, 1887. He was the descendant|
130548677|/articles/14868-wertheimer-samson|Supplied the Imperial Army. Austrian court Jew, financier, and Rabbiner; born at Worms Jan. 17, 1658; died at Vienna Aug. 6, 1724. He was the son of|
132171090|/articles/14869-wertheimer-solomon-aaron|Hungarian Rabbiner and scholar; born at Bösing Nov. 18, 1866. In 1871 he went with his parents to Jerusalem, where he was educated; and in 1890 he|
124176240|/articles/14873-wessely-moritz-august|German physician; born at Bleicherode, near Erfurt, Oct. 15, 1800; died at Nordhausen March 7, 1850; nephew of Naphtali Hirz Wessely. He was|
119178583|/articles/14874-wessely-naphtali-hirz-hartwig|German Hebraist and educationist; born at Hamburg 1725; died there Feb. 28, 1805. One of his ancestors, Joseph Reis, fled from Podolia in 1648 on|
117317748|/articles/14875-wessely-wolfgang|Austrian jurist and theologian; born at Trebitsch, Moravia, Oct. 22, 1801; died at Vienna April 21, 1870. At the age of fourteen he was sent to|
118631977|/articles/14879-wette-wilhelm-martin-leberecht-de|Christian Biblical critic and theologian; born at Ulla, near Weimar, Jan. 12, 1780; died in Basel June 16, 1849. He took his doctorate in Jena,|
138497079|/articles/14883-weyl-meir-b-simhah|German Rabbiner; born at Lissa 1744; died at Berlin 1826. He was a pupil of Hirsch Janow. In 1771 he became associate Rabbiner at Lissa, and in 1784 was|
101906447|/articles/14884-weyl-walter-edward|American economist; born at Philadelphia, Pa., March 11, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and the University of|
117579661|/articles/14889-widal-fernand-georges|French physician; born at Paris March 9, 1862. From 1886 to 1888 he devoted himself to public demonstrations of the researches of the faculty of|
139619852|/articles/14893-wiener-adolf|German Rabbiner; born in Murowana-Goslin, Posen, 1811; died in Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, Aug. 25, 1895. Having acquired his diploma as Ph.D., he went|
1041659415;174349459|/articles/14896-wiener-jacques|Belgian engraver; born at Hoorstgen, Rhine Province, 1815; died at Brussels Nov. 3, 1899. When thirteen years of age he was sent to Aix-la-Chapelle|
117362697|/articles/14901-wiener-leo|American philologist; born at Byelostok, Grodno, Russia, July 27, 1862; studied in the gymnasia of Minsk and Warsaw, in the University of Warsaw,|
1044269030|/articles/14902-wiener-leopold|Belgian engraver and sculptor; born in Holland 1823; died at Brussels Jan. 24, 1891. He was a resident of Boitsfort, a small town near Brussels, of|
124730558|/articles/14903-wiener-meir|German teacher; born at Glogau June 3, 1819; died at Hanover March 31, 1880; head master of the religious school at Hanover. He made a German|
119351641|/articles/14908-wieniawski-henri|Russian violinist and composer; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, July 10, 1835; died at Moscow April 1, 1880; brother of Joseph Wieniawski. He early|
117363855|/articles/14909-wieniawski-joseph|Russian pianist and composer; born at Lublin, Poland, May 23, 1837; brother of Henri Wieniawski. He studied music under Zimmerman, Alkan, and|
1076419259|/articles/14910-wiernik-peter|Russo-American journalist; born at Wilna, Russia, in March, 1865. He received the customary Jewish education. From 1878 to 1882 he was in Riga; in|
117369608|/articles/14912-wiesner-adolf|Austrian journalist and author; born in Prague 1807; died in New York Sept. 23, 1867. His name was originally Wiener, but, being desirous of|
117371092|/articles/14916-wihl-ludwig|German poet and philologist; born at Wevelingen, Prussia, Oct. 24, 1807; died at Brussels Jan. 16, 1882; educated at Krefeld, Cologne, Bonn, and|
117580376|/articles/14917-wilczynski-ernest-julius|American mathematician; born in Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 13, 1876. He went with his parents in 1885 to America, where he attended the Chicago high|
117379689|/articles/14922-wilda-wilhelm-eduard|German jurist; born at Altona Aug. 17, 1800; died at Kiel Aug. 9, 1856; educated at the Johanneum of Hamburg and the universities of Göttingen,|
131875426|/articles/14932-wilmersdorffer-max-ritter-von|Bavarian financier and philanthropist; born at Bayreuth April 8, 1824; died at Munich Dec. 26, 1903. At an early age he entered the Munich banking|
118986627|/articles/14945-winternitz-moriz|Austrian Orientalist; born at Horn Dec. 23, 1863. He received his earliest education in the gymnasium of his native town, and in 1880 entered the|
117582387|/articles/14946-winternitz-wilhelm|Austrian physician and hydropathist; born at Josefstadt, Bohemia, March 1, 1835; educated at Vienna and at Prague (M. D. 1857), where he settled and|
117411175|/articles/14947-winterstein-simon-freiherr-von|Austrian railroad magnate; born at Prague 1819; died at Vöslau June 11, 1883. The son of poor parents, he had to learn early to support himself. He|
119103206|/articles/14954-wise-isaac-mayer|American Reform Rabbiner, editor, and author; born at Steingrub, Bohemia, March 29, 1819; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26, 1900. He was the son of|
1074848845|/articles/14959-wissotzky-kalonymos-zeeb-wolf|The Wissotzky Fund. Russian philanthropist; born in Zhagory, government of Kovno, July 8, 1824; died at Moscow May 24, 1904. Wissotzky, whose father|
133082466|/articles/14963-wittelshofer-leopold|Austrian physician; born at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, July 14, 1818; died at Vienna Jan. 8, 1889; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1841).|
117582980|/articles/14964-wittmann-franz|Hungarian electrician and physicist; born at Hod-Mezö-Vasarhely Jan. 16, 1860. He was educated at the university of Budapest, and continued his|
137818580|/articles/14979-wolf-ben-joseph-of-dessau|German scholar and author; born at Dessau in 1762; died there March 16, 1826. Left an orphan at an early age, he was educated by his father-in-law,|
1056143428|/articles/14974-wolf-emma|American authoress; born June 15, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal., to which city her parents had migrated from France, and where she received her|
117444294|/articles/14976-wolf-gerson|Austrian historian and educator; born at Holleschau, Moravia, July 16, 1823; died in Vienna Oct. 29, 1892. He began the study of Hebrew at a very|
104179910|/articles/14977-wolf-hirsch-w|German physician; born at Lobsens, Posen, 1738; died at Hamburg April 14, 1820; studied at the University of Giessen (M.D. 1779). After practising|
117444790|/articles/14978-wolf-johann-christoph|Christian Hebraist and polyhistor; born at Wernigerode Feb. 21, 1683; died at Hamburg July 25, 1739. He studied at Wittenberg, and traveled in|
118942883|/articles/14980-wolf-lucien|English journalist and Anglo-Jewish historian; born in London Jan. 20, 1857. He began his journalistic career at a very early age on "The Jewish|
141075457|/articles/14981-wolf-max|Austrian composer; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Feb., 1840; died in Vienna March 23, 1886. His father, a wealthy business man, desired him to|
1165021056|/articles/14982-wolf-simon|American jurist, publicist, and philanthropist; born at Hinzweiler, Bavaria, Oct. 28, 1836; emigrated to the United States in 1848 and settled as a|
1153081741|/articles/14984-wolfenstein-martha|American authoress; born at Insterburg, Prussia, Aug. 5, 1869. During her infancy her parents emigrated to the United States, settling in Cleveland,|
104155760|/articles/14987-wolff-abraham-alexander|German Rabbiner; born at Darmstadt April 29, 1801; died at Copenhagen Dec. 3, 1891. His first teacher was his father, Alexander Wolff, a merchant, who|
119559919|/articles/14988-wolff-joseph|Friendship with Henry Drummond. Missionary and Oriental traveler; born at Weilersbach, near Bamberg, Germany, in 1795; died at Ile Brewers,|
117441295|/articles/14990-wolff-julius|German surgeon; born at Märkisch Friedland, West Prussia, March 21, 1836; died at Berlin Feb. 18, 1902. He received his education at the|
1037386302|/articles/14991-wolff-maurice|Swedish Rabbiner; born in 1824 at Meseritz, Prussia, where his father officiated as Rabbiner. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Leipsic, and|
117442003|/articles/14992-wolff-oskar-ludwig-bernhard|German improvisator and novelist; born at Altona July 26, 1799; died at Jena Sept. 13, 1851. He early manifested an unusual aptitude for acquiring|
116920041;127862439;|/articles/14993-wolff-ulla|German authoress; born at Gleiwitz, Silesia, April 2, 1850; daughter of Max Hirschfeld. She received her education at home and in Breslau and|
117436623|/articles/14994-wolffson-isaac|German jurist and Politiker; born Jan. 19, 1817; died at Hamburg Oct. 12, 1895. He was prominent in German politics, and prior to 1871 was a member|
102630945X|/articles/14997-wolfler-bernard|Austrian physician; born at Praschnoaugezd, Bohemia, Dec. 8, 1816. After having studied philosophy at the gymnasium of Prague, he attended the|
118847104|/articles/15000-wolfsohn-wilhelm|German poet and essayist; born at Odessa Oct. 20, 1820; died at Dresden Aug. 13, 1865; studied medicine and philosophy at Leipsic. He began his|
1075659736|/articles/15001-wollemborg-leone|Italian economist; born at Padua 1859; graduated from the university of his native city (1878). He made a special study of political economy, and|
117433640|/articles/15002-wollheim-anton-eduard-w-da-fonseca|German playwright and journalist; born in Hamburg Feb. 12, 1810; died in Berlin Oct. 24, 1884; studied at the University of Berlin (Ph.D. 1831).|
141172479|/articles/15016-worms-asher-anshel|Worms Pedigree.V12p565002.jpgGerman physician, mathematician, and Hebraist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main toward the end of the seventeenth century;|
14031749X|/articles/15017-worms-emile|French jurist; born at Frisange, Luxembourg, May 23, 1838; educated at the University of Heidelberg and at Paris (LL.D. 1864). In 1863 he received a|
1043349561|/articles/15021-worms-jules|French genre painter; born in Paris Dec. 16, 1832. He studied under Philippon and Lafosse, and made his début at the Salon of 1859, his first|
117424242|/articles/15023-worms-rene|French auditor of the council of state; son of Emile Worms; born at Rennes Dec. 8, 1869; educated at the lyceum of his native city and at the Lycée|
117424277|/articles/15026-wormser-andre-alphonse|French composer; born in Paris Nov. 1, 1851; studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Bazin and Marmontel. In 1875 he was awarded the Prix de Rome.|
104179465|/articles/15032-wunderbar-reuben-joseph|Russian pedagogue and author; born at Mitau Sept. 12, 1812; died there Aug. 16, 1868. He received the usual Jewish education under a private|
117374458|/articles/15033-wunsche-august|German Christian Hebraist; born at Hainewalde July 22, 1839. He has devoted his attention almost exclusively to Rabbinernic literature. After|
142447722|/articles/15037-wysber-ludwig|Hungarian journalist and author; born 1817. Originally a street pedler in Pesth, he obtained employment as a chorus singer in the German theater of|
118712152|/articles/15042-ximenes-de-cisneros|Spanish priest, statesman, regent, and grand inquisitor; born 1436; died 1517. He studied in Rome, and upon his return to Spain was appointed|
124834124|/articles/15061-yannai-ben-ishmael|Palestinian amora of the third century; a contemporary of Ze'era and of Abba bar Kahana. There exist a few halakot transmitted in his name, among|
120839849|/articles/15119-yom-tob-ben-abraham-ishbili|Famous Talmudic commentator of the first half of the fourteenth century. He received his name from the city of Seville; but was living at Alcolea de|
11759203X|/articles/15140-zabludowski-israel-isidor|Russian physician; born at Byelostok, in the government of Grodno, July 30, 1850. At the age of twelve he wrote a Hebrew novel entitled "Ha-Yaldut|
100967280|/articles/15143-zacuto-abraham-ben-samuel|His "Yuḥasin." Spanish astronomer mathematician, and historian; born at Salamanca about 1450; died in Turkey after 1510. An astronomer of|
130677973|/articles/15144-zacuto-moses-ben-mordecai|Cabalistic writer and poet; born about 1625; died at Mantua Oct. 1, 1697. It is generally supposed that his birthplace was Amsterdam, although, like|
132103613|/articles/15152-zakkai|1. Palestinian tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah ha-Nasi I. and apparently a pupil of Simeon b. Yoḥai. He is mentioned as having|
118643495|/articles/15156-zamenhof-lazarusludwig|Founder of the universal language "Esperanto"; born at Byelostok in Dec., 1859. His father, Markus Zamenhof, and his grandfather, Fabian Zamenhof,|
118808281|/articles/15162-zangwill-israel|English man of letters; born in London Feb. 14, 1864. When he was young his parents moved to Bristol, where he attended the Red Cross School; and|
127956875|/articles/15163-zangwill-louis|English novelist; born at Bristol, England, July 25, 1869; brother of Israel Zangwill. He was educated at Jews' Free School, and for a time acted as|
116966122|/articles/15168-zappert-bruno|Austrian dramatist and journalist; born in Vienna Jan. 28, 1845; died there Jan. 31, 1892. The Zappert family, many members of which have gained|
131562673|/articles/15169-zappert-george|Hungarian historian and archeologist; born in Alt-Ofen Dec. 7, 1806; died in Vienna Nov. 23, 1859. The son of well-to-do parents, Zappert was|
10096172X|/articles/15177-zarza-samuel-ibn-seneh|Spanish Philosoph; lived at Valencia in the second half of the fourteenth century. According to Zunz, his surname is derived from the Spanish town|
129725838|/articles/15181-zausmer-jacob-ben-samuel|Polish Rabbiner and preacher; flourished at Zausmer in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the "Bet Ya'aḳob." (Dyhernfurth, 1696), a work|
137101252|/articles/15208-zedek-joseph-kohen|Austro-English Rabbinernical scholar and preacher; born in Lemberg 1827; died in London 1903. His family claimed to trace its ancestry back to the|
1146607148|/articles/15212-zederbaum-alexander-ossypovitch|Russian Hebrew journalist; born in Samostye, Lublin, 1816; died in St. Petersburg 1893; founder and editor of "Ha-Meliẓ," and other periodicals|
12496527X|/articles/15213-zedner-joseph|German bibliographer and librarian; born at Gross-Glogau Feb. 10, 1804; died at Berlin Oct. 10, 1871. After completing hiseducation, he acted as|
117595489|/articles/15219-zeisel-simon|Austrian chemist; born at Lomnitz, Moravia, April 11, 1854; educated at the German gymnasium of Brünn and at the University of Vienna (Ph.D. 1879).|
129996343|/articles/15221-zeissl-hermann-von|Austrian dermatologist; born at Vierzighuben near Zwittau, Moravia, Sept. 22, 1817; died at Vienna Sept. 23, 1884; educated at the University of|
105514627X|/articles/15226-zeitlin-william|Russian scholar and bibliographer; born at Homel, government of Moghilef, about the middle of the nineteenth century. He is known especially as the|
1053424345|/articles/15236-zemah-jacob-ben-hayyim|Portuguese cabalist and physician; died at Jerusalem in the second half of the seventeenth century. He received a medical training in his native|
132156326|/articles/15244-zerahiah-ben-isaac-ha-levi-gerondi|Talmudic author and liturgical poet of the twelfth century; disciple of Moses ben Joseph of Narbonne. Azulai and many others, influenced by the|
123847311|/articles/15248-zerffi-gustav|Hungarian journalist and revolutionist; born in Hungary about 1820. He was the author of "Wiener Lichtbilder und Schattenspiele," with twelve|
174077084|/articles/15256-ziegler-ignaz|Austrian Rabbiner; born at Also-Kubin, Hungary, Sept. 29, 1861; educated at the Rabbinical Seminary and at the University of Budapest (Ph.D. 1888).|
1078961549|/articles/15258-zilzer-antal-anton|Hungarian painter; born at Budapest in 1861. He was a pupil of Rauscher, Gregusz, and Szekely at the national model school of design, and later|
117001481|/articles/15260-zimmern-helen|German authoress; born at Hamburg March 25, 1846. She went to England at an early age, and resided there till 1887, when she removed to Florence.|
117006300|/articles/15273-zirndorf-heinrich|German poet and Rabbinernical scholar; born at Fürth, Bavaria, May 7, 1829; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1893; educated privately. His parents|
118637223|/articles/15279-zola-emile|His Novels. French novelist; born in Paris April 2, 1840; died there Sept. 29, 1902. It was only in his last years, when anti-Semitism had reached|
1146455100|/articles/15280-zomber-bernhard-bar|Polish scholar; born at Lask in 1821; died at Berlin in 1884. Having acquired a fair knowledge of Rabbinernical literature in his native country, he|
115972721X|/articles/15286-zucker-alfred|Chemist and manufacturer of Dresden, Germany; born Aug. 17, 1871, in Uffenheim, Bavaria. He studied pharmacy and chemistry at the universities of|
117021032|/articles/15287-zucker-marcus|German librarian and author; born May 1, 1841. He was for some time chief librarian at the University of Erlangen, and has made a specialty of the|
117021261|/articles/15288-zuckerkandl-emil|Austrian anatomist; born at Raab, Hungary, in 1849; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1874). In 1875 he became privat-docent of anatomy at|
117021652|/articles/15289-zuckermandel-moses-samuel|German Rabbiner and Talmudist; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, April 24, 1836. He became a Rabbiner in Pleschen, Prussia, and was appointed lecturer on|
137921616|/articles/15290-zuckermann-benedict|German scientist; born at Breslau Oct. 9, 1818; died there Dec. 17, 1891. He received a thorough Hebrew and secular education at the institutions of|
1031738347|/articles/15291-zuenz-aryeh-loeb-harif-b-moses|Polish Rabbiner; born at Pinczow about 1773; died at Warsaw 1833. He was a thorough Talmudic scholar, and was also well versed in the Cabala. Holding|
130429481|/articles/15294-zukertort-johannes-hermann|Chess-player and physician; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, Sept. 7, 1842; died in London June 20, 1888; son of a Jewish convert to Christianity who|
120928116|/articles/15297-zunser-eliakim|Russian "badḥan" and poet; born at Wilna in 1845. At the age of sixteen he had gained a local reputation as a poet, and after setting his rimes to|
118896202|/articles/15298-zuntz-nathan|German physiologist; born at Bonn Oct. 6, 1847; educated at the university of his native city (M.D. 1868). Becoming an assistant at the|
118773275|/articles/15299-zunz-leopold|Founder of the modern "science of Judaism" and pioneer in the history of Jewish literature, religious poetry, and the ritual of the synagogue; born|
11600083X|/articles/15311-zweifel-paul|German gynecologist; born at Höngg, near Zurich, Switzerland, June 30, 1848; educated at the University of Zurich (M.D. 1871). In 1871 he received|
118647113|/articles/870-aegidius-of-viterbo|Cardinal and Christian cabalist; born in 1470 at the Villa Canapina, in the diocese of Viterbo, of rich and noble parents. After a course of studies|
118845373|/articles/872-aemilius-paulus|Hebrew bibliographer, publisher, and teacher; born at Rödlsee, Germany, probably in the first quarter of the sixteenth century; embraced|