Gustav Gabriel Cohen
Gustav G. Cohen (born February 17, 1830 in Hamburg ; died December 10, 1906 there ) was a Hamburg banker and Zionist . In his essay The Jewish Question and the Future , published in 1891, he dealt with the idea of a Jewish nation state. Independently of Theodor Herzl , Cohen developed a kind of forerunner of Zionism .
After Herzl's Jewish State appeared , Cohen sent a letter to Herzl in which he presented his Cyprus project, in which Cohen proposed the establishment of Judaism on the island of Cyprus. Theodor Herzl and Cohen became friends who visited each other.
Cohen's daughter Anna Bertha Cohen married Otto Warburg , the botanist and third president of the World Zionist Organization from 1909 to 1921.
output
- The ideal of one's own state. Two writings from the beginnings of Zionism , ISBN 393485415X
literature
- Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 33 (2005) Review of: The ideal ...
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Seligmann (ed.): Caesar Seligmann (1860–1950). Memories. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-7829-0160-6 , pp. 104f
- ↑ Seligmann 1975, p. 104
- ↑ Seligmann 1975, p. 105
- ^ Theodor Herzl: Letters and Diaries. 7 volumes edited by Alex Bein , Hermann Greive , Moshe Schaerf and Julius H. Schoeps . Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1983–96. Here: Herzl's letters to Cohen of July 17, 1899, July 27, 1900
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| SURNAME | Cohen, Gustav Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cohen, Gustav G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hamburg banker and Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1906 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |