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Salomon Wininger

1877 – 1968

Austrian encyclopedist-biographer

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Lived 1877 – 1968 (aged 90). Salomon Wininger was an Austrian, Romanian and Israeli writer.

Salomon Wininger (; 13 December 1877, Gura Humora, Bukovina – December 1968, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Austrian-Jewish biographer. He has been called one of the greatest Jewish biographers of all time.

Before World War I, Wininger lived in Chernivtsi and moved to Vienna during the war years, where he decided to write biographies of famous Jews. This idea was pushed in order to counter the self-hating mood of Jewish youth in the city, influenced among other political factors, by Otto Weininger's works.

After his return to Chernivtsi in 1921, Shlomo Wininger wrote about 13,000 biographies and published them in seven volumes between 1925 and 1936. He survived the time of World War II in Chernivtsi and emigrated in 1951 to Israel.

Works Große Jüdische National-Biographie ("Lexicon of Jewish National Biographies"). Chernivtsi 1925–1936. Gura Humora: Geschichte einer Kleinstadt in der Südbukovina ("Gura Humora: History of a Small Town in South Bukovina").

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University of Vienna

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Who was Salomon Wininger?

Austrian encyclopedist-biographer (1877-1968)

When was Salomon Wininger born?

Salomon Wininger was born on 13 December 1877 in Gura Humorului.

When did Salomon Wininger die?

Salomon Wininger died on 23 November 1968 in Ramat Gan.

What was Salomon Wininger's occupation?

Salomon Wininger was a writer.

What nationality was Salomon Wininger?

Salomon Wininger was Austrian, Romanian and Israeli.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Salomon Wininger

· Wikidata: Q113323

· DBpedia: Salomon Wininger

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