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Günzburg, Gabriel Jacob ben Naphtalihirz

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Lithuanian financier and philanthropist; born at Wilna about 1793; died at Simferopol, Crimea, May 2, 1853. After Günzburg had been married at Vitebsk, he settled at Kamenetz-Podolsk. But his business was distributed over many other places, and he lived for a certain time at St. Petersburg. Günzburg applied his philanthropy to four towns, Wilna, Vitebsk, Kamenetz-Podolsk, and Simferopol; in the last-named town he built a hospital. On the proposition of the Russian minister of finances, Nicholas I. conferred on Günzburg the title of "honorary and hereditary citizen" (Oct. 22, 1848).

Bibliography:
  • Fuenn, Ḳiryah Ne'emanah, p. 283;
  • Maggid, Toledot Mishpeḥot Ginẓburg, pp. 78-81, 145-147.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Günzburg, Gabriel Jacob ben Naphtalihirz'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​g/gnzburg-gabriel-jacob-ben-naphtalihirz.html. 1901.
 
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