Moritz Horschetzky
Moritz Horschetzky | |
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Born | 1777 or 1788 Bydzov, Bohemia |
Died | Nagykanizsa, Hungary | 7 November 1859
Occupation | Physician |
Language | German |
Spouse | Julia Lackenbacher |
Moritz Horschetzky (1777 or 1788 – 7 November 1859) was an Austrian physician, writer, and translator.
He was born to a Jewish family in Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1777 or 1788. He received a traditional early education, attended the Israelitische Hauptschule in Prague, and later acquired a doctorate in medicine in Vienna.[1]
Horschetzky married into the prominent Lackenbacher family;[2] his father-in-law Hirsch Lackenbacher was leader of the Jewish community of Nagykanizsa, Hungary,[3] where Horschetzky began practising medicine in 1811.[4] He went on to run the town's Jewish hospital and serve as director of the Jewish community school.[5] He became a member of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1845.[1]
As a writer he devoted himself chiefly to the works of
He died in Nagykanizsa on 7 November 1859.[6]
Bibliography
- Geschichte der Juden seit dem Rückzuge aus der babylonischen Gefangenschaft, bis zur Schlacht bei Aza in welcher Judas der Maccabäer fiel. Antiquitates Judaicae.German. (in German). Prague: M. I. Landau. 1826. hdl:2027/hvd.hw5hia.
- Dreizehntes Buch der jüdischen Antiquitäten des Flavius Josephus (in German). Nagykanizsa. 1843.
- "Reiseberichte des Natan Ghazzati". Orient. Lit. (in German). 9: 170–172, 299–301.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kayserling, Meyer (1904). "Horschetzky, Moritz". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 469.
- ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1863). "Horschetzky, Moriz". Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Österreich (in German). Vol. 9. Vienna. p. 308.)
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- ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1859). Hebræische Bibliographie. Blätter für neuere und ältere Literatur des Judenthums (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: A. Asher & Comp. p. 110.
- ISBN 978-90-04-39309-7.
- ^ a b Singer, Isidore; Kayserling, Meyer (1904). "Horschetzky, Moritz". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 469.
- ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 408.