About Elias Salomon Nathan
Lived 1807 – 1862 (aged 55). Elias Salomon Nathan was a translator, writer and physician.
Elias Salomon Nathan (17 May 1807 – 5 July 1862) was a German writer and medical doctor.
He was born in Eutin, Duchy of Oldenburg, to Caroline and Salomon Aaron Nathan. He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, receiving his M.D. in 1830. He took part in the Polish campaign, and afterward settled in Hamburg as a physician.
In addition to his literary activity in medical science, he devoted himself to Jewish learning. Under the pseudonym "Dr. Essenna" he translated Joseph Salvador's Histoire des institutions de Moïse et du peuple hébreu into German, with an introduction by Gabriel Riesser. Under the same pseudonym he published Gedanken aus dem Tagebuche eines Juden über die Drei Grossen Propheten der Europäischen Geschichte.
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Who was Elias Salomon Nathan?
German author and physician
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Elias Salomon Nathan was born on 17 May 1807 in Duchy of Oldenburg, Eutin.
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Elias Salomon Nathan died on 5 July 1862 in German Confederation, Hamburg.
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Elias Salomon Nathan was a translator, writer and physician.
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