Michel Berr
Michel Berr (born June 9, 1781 in Nancy , † July 4, 1843 in Nancy) was a French lawyer and publicist.
Michel Berr, son of Isaak Berr de Turique , was the first Jewish lawyer in France. He was a pioneer of Jewish emancipation , in 1818 he presented the Aachen Congress with a memorandum on the situation of German Jews. In 1808 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
Berr worked for the Mercure de France , the Mercure étranger and the Magasin encyclopédique .
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. I, Orient Printer, Czernowitz 1925, p. 357 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 38.
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| SURNAME | Berr, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer, champion of the emancipation of the Jews |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1843 |
| Place of death | Nancy |