Lazar Felix Pinkus

Lazar Felix Pinkus (born August 13, 1881 in Breslau ; died February 12, 1947 in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss journalist , writer and banker .

Life

Pinkus studied natural sciences and economics at the Universities of Breslau , Berlin and Bern . In 1904 he received his doctorate from the University of Bern with a thesis on economic history . He then worked as a journalist, first in Berlin , then in Hamburg and finally in Zurich. Among other things, he was editor-in-chief of the Europäische Wirtschafts-Zeitung . He also worked as a banker (Felix Pinkus & Cie.). In 1927 he fled to Albania after his bank went bankrupt.

Lazar Felix Pinkus was married to the actress Else Flatau; Theo Pinkus and Mirjam Pinkus were children of this marriage .

Works

• The modern Jewish question. From the foundations of Jewish economic history and Zionism. Koebner, Breslau 1903 (after a lecture in the scientific department of the Academic Zionist Association in Bern; digitized version ).
• Palestine and Syria. Studies on economic policy. Zionist monthly publisher, Geneva 1903 ( digitized version ).
• Studies on the economic position of the Jews from the Great Migration to modern times. A contribution to Jewish economic history. Lamm, Berlin 1905 (dissertation, University of Bern, 1904; digitized version ).
• The unleashed. Novellas. Concordia, Berlin 1908.
• Before the founding of the Jewish state. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1918 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2 edition. Volume 7, Saur, Munich 2007, p. 841 ( online ).

Web links

• The Pinkus family's estate in the Zurich Central Library

Individual evidence

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