Persons | Jewish Communities of Austria

Stone engraver, gem cutterץ Salomon Philipp Abraham served his apprenticeship as an engraver under his father Philipp Abraham. He was

Philipp Abraham was first mentioned on a list of Jewish families of Vienna list in 1787. In August 1801 he

Born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna, Siegfried Abeles contributed to various journals on pedagogical subjects. In

Jacob Ehrlich was born in Bistrica, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). Ehrlich studied at the University of Vienna, where

Officer in the Austro-Hungarian army Alexander von Eis was born in Piesling, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). At the

Desider Friedmann was born in Boskovice (now in the Czech Republic). He became an active Zionist while still in his

Paul Ehrenfest was born in Vienna, where he started his studies as physicist with Ludwig Boltzmann, and later continued in

Social philosopher, engineer and inventor Josef Popper, also know by the pseudonim of Lynkeus, was born in Kolin, Bohemia (now

Lise Meitner was born in Vienna. At the age of thirty nine, already a known physicist, she moved to Berlin

Richard Martin edler von Mises(1883-1953) was born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lvov, in the Ukraine). Mises was brought up Jewish