Heinrich Graetz
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1817 – 1891
Who was Heinrich Graetz?
Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a butcher family in Xions, Grand Duchy of Posen, in Prussia, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena though he had attended Breslau University because Jews at the time were barred from receiving Ph.D.s at that institution. After 1845 he was principal of the Jewish Orthodox school of the Breslau community, and later taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. His magnum opus History of the Jews was quickly translated into other languages and ignited worldwide interest in Jewish history. In 1869 the University of Breslau granted him the title of Honorary Professor, in 1888 he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
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- Born
- Oct 31, 1817
Poznań - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Died
- Sep 7, 1891
Munich
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on July 23, 2013
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