Moses Salomon Gumpertz

Moses Salomon Gumpertz (born in Metz ; died May 11, 1742 in Prague ) was a Jewish medic.

The son of the Prague doctor Salomon Gumpertz (died 1729 ) was enrolled as a medical student at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt on July 22, 1721 ; In the same year he was the first Jew in Germany to receive his doctorate and then worked as a doctor for the Prague Jewish community.

However, Moses Sobernheim (Halle 1724) is also considered the first German Jew with a doctorate.

literature

Guido Kisch : The Prague University and the Jews 1348–1848 . With contributions to the history of medical studies, in: Yearbooks of the Society for the History of Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic [Prague] 6 (1934), pp. 1–145, here especially pp. 21ff .; Mährisch-Ostrau 1935 / Amsterdam 1969, esp.p. 87.
Guido Kisch: The first Jew with a doctorate in Germany , in: Monthly Journal for History and Science of Judaism 78 (1934), pp. 350–363.
Philo-Lexikon , 3rd edition, Berlin 1936, col. 259

Individual evidence

^ David Kaufmann / Max Freudenthal : The Gomperz Family , Frankfurt am Main 1907, p. 379.
↑ Adolf Kober: Rheinische Jewish doctors mainly from the 17th and 18th century . In: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Fraenckelscher Stiftung, Breslau 1929, Vol. 2, pp. 173–236, here p. 199.

personal data
SURNAME	Gumpertz, Moses Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish medic
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century or 18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Metz
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1742
Place of death	Prague

[1] David Kaufmann / Max Freudenthal : The Gomperz Family , Frankfurt am Main 1907, p. 379.

[2] Adolf Kober: Rheinische Jewish doctors mainly from the 17th and 18th century . In: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Fraenckelscher Stiftung, Breslau 1929, Vol. 2, pp. 173–236, here p. 199.