About John Wertheimer
Lived 1799 – 1883 (aged 83–84). John Wertheimer was an English and British printer.
John Wertheimer (1799 – 18 December 1883) was an English printer. He was senior member of the firm of Wertheimer, Lea & Co, having founded the company in 1820 and now operating as Williams Lea Tag.
From 1820 until his death he was actively engaged as a printer in London; and many important educational, medical, and philological works were issued from his press. His firm printed most of the works needing Hebrew type, also commercial reports and The Jewish Chronicle. He also printed The Voice of Jacob, the first Anglo-Jewish Newspaper.
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Who was John Wertheimer?
English printer
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John Wertheimer was born in 1799 in Kingdom of Great Britain, London.
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John Wertheimer died on 18 December 1883 in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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John Wertheimer was a printer.
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John Wertheimer was English and British.
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