Moritz Horschetzky | |
---|---|
Born | 1777 or 1788 Bydzov, Bohemia |
Died | Nagykanizsa, Hungary | 7 November 1859
Occupation | Physician |
Language | German |
Spouse | Julia Lackenbacher |
Moritz Horschetzky (1777 or 1788 – 7 November 1859) was an Austrian physician, writer, and translator.
He was born to a Jewish family in Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1777 or 1788. He received a traditional early education, attended the Israelitische Hauptschule in Prague, and later acquired a doctorate in medicine in Vienna. [1]
Horschetzky married into the prominent Lackenbacher family; [2] his father-in-law Hirsch Lackenbacher was leader of the Jewish community of Nagykanizsa, Hungary, [3] where Horschetzky began practising medicine in 1811. [4] He went on to run the town's Jewish hospital and serve as director of the Jewish community school. [5] He became a member of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1845. [1]
As a writer he devoted himself chiefly to the works of Josephus, whose Antiquities he translated and in part annotated (1826, 1843, 1851). [6] He also wrote for the journals Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, the Orient, and Ben-Chananja . He possessed remarkable humor, which appears in his fictitious Reiseberichte Nathan Ghazzati's (1848), which Julius Fürst took to be a translation from Hebrew. [7]
He died in Nagykanizsa on 7 November 1859. [6]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kayserling, Meyer (1904).
"Horschetzky, Moritz". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 469.
{{
cite encyclopedia}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)