Joseph Günzburg

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Baron Joseph Gunzburg ( Russian Барон Осип Гаврилович Гинцбург , scientific. Transliteration Baron Osip Gavrilovic Gincburg even Iosif-Evzel , Иосиф-Евзель , * 1812 in Vitebsk , † November 19 jul. / 1. December  1878 greg. In Paris ) was a Russian trader, banker and philanthropist .

Life

Joseph Günzburg was a member of the Günzburg Jewish-Russian merchant family . He was the son of Gabriel Günzburg (1793-1853), the father of Horace Günzburg (1833-1909) and the grandfather of Alexander von Günzburg (1863-1948).

After Günzburg became rich in the Crimean War , he founded a bank in Saint Petersburg in 1859 and became involved in the interests of Jews in the Russian Empire .

In November 1861 the Russian government appointed him a member of a commission that dealt with questions of the Jewish religion in the Russian Empire and met for five months. Günzburg campaigned for an increase in the level of education of Jews in the Russian Empire and therefore, with the permission of the Russian government, founded the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews in 1863 , of which he was president until his death. Thanks to Günzburg's efforts, a general four-year conscription was introduced in 1874, which also applied to Jews. In Vilnius , his father's hometown, he set up a foundation for the Talmud Torah schools .

After his son Horace Günzburg was given by Grand Duke Ludwig III on November 9, 1870 . of Hesse and the Rhine had been raised to the hereditary baron status of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , this step took place for Joseph Günzburg and his other sons on August 2, 1874. In 1879, Tsar Alexander II allowed the Günzburg family to use the title of baron in the Russian Empire. She became the only ennobled Jewish family in Russia.

See also

literature

  • Lorraine de Meaux: "The Gunzburgs - A Family Biography", Halban Publishers Ltd., London 2019, ISBN 978-1-905559-99-2 .
  • Samuel Joseph Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael , p. 460;
  • Archives Israélites , 1878, p. 89

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Kai Drewes: “Jüdischer Adel - Nobilitierungen von Juden in Europa des 19. Century”, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 347, ISBN 978-3-593-39775-7
  2. ^ William L. Blackwell: "Beginnings of Russian Industrialization, 1800-1860", Princeton Legacy Library, Princeton 1968, p. 235
personal data
SURNAME Gunzburg, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gintsburg, Osip Gavrilovch; Гинцбург, Осип Гаврилович; Iosif-Evzel; Иосиф-Евзель
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian banker
DATE OF BIRTH 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1878
Place of death Paris