Isaac Guggenheim

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Isaac Guggenheim (born June 1, 1854 in Philadelphia , † October 10, 1922 in Southampton ) was an American industrialist and philanthropist .

His main philanthropic interests were the Jewish Theological Seminary , the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York , the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and the Jewish Hospital in Denver .

Isaac Guggenheim was the firstborn son of Meyer Guggenheim .

literature

  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 262.