Achilles Nordmann

Achilles Nordmann (born July 21, 1863 in Hégenheim , Alsace , † February 10, 1927 in Basel ) was a Swiss doctor and historian .

Achilles Nordmann (also Achille Nordmann or Nordemann), son of a Jewish cattle dealer from Hegenheim, received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 1887 with a thesis on "About clysmatic lesions of the rectum". med. After that he worked first at the Royal Women's Clinic in Dresden before finally settling in Basel. In addition to medical articles, he also published several fundamental works on the history of the Jews in Alsace and Switzerland . He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hegenheim .

Fonts (selection)

• On clysmatic lesions of the rectum , Basel 1887 (dissertation).
• About the Jewish cemetery in Zwingen and Jewish settlements in the Principality of Basel. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 6, 1907, pp. 120–151 ( digitized version )
• The history of the Israelite cemetery in Hegenheim, Basel 1910.
• History of the Jews in Basel from the end of the second community to the introduction of freedom of belief and conscience 1397–1875. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 13, 1914, pp. 1–190 ( digitized version )
• Les juifs dans le Pays de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel 1923.
• Documents relatifs à l'histoire des juifs à Genève, dans le Pays de Vaud et en Savoie, Paris 1927 (special print from Revue des études juives , vols. 165 and 167)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ doi: 10.1007 / BF01960066 .

Web links

• Robert Uri Kaufmann : Nordmann, Achilles. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Achilles Nordmann's tombstone at www.alemannia-judaica.de
• Entry for a doctorate in the Basler Chronik