About Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum
Lived 1797 – 1870 (aged 72–73). Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum was a physician and religious writer.
Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum (1797–1860) was a medical doctor and writer from the Austrian Empire.
Biography He was born in Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797 and died in Kraków in 1860. After studying philosophy and medicine in Berlin, he settled as a medical doctor in Kraków, and as "Der Berliner Doctor" soon acquired an extensive practice and accumulated a considerable fortune.
In order to be able to secure the estate of Siemota, near Chrzanów, he adopted the Christian religion, and assumed the name of "Sigismund." As a married man he permitted his wife to remain a law-abiding Jew throughout her life.
Kirschbaum was the author of a long Hebrew essay, entitled "Hilkot Yeme ha-Mashiaḥ." In the German language he published "Der Jüdische Alexandrinismus," Leipzig, 1841, and "Der Familie Apotheose," Kraków, 1858.
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