Moritz Horschetzky
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Moritz Horschetzky | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1777 or 1788 |
| Died | 7 November 1859 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Language | German |
| Spouse | Julia Lackenbacher |
Moritz Horschetzky (1777 or 1788 – 7 November 1859) was an Austrian physician, writer, and translator.
He was born to a Jewish family in Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1777 or 1788. He received a traditional early education, attended the Israelitische Hauptschule in Prague, and later acquired a doctorate in medicine in Vienna.[1]
Horschetzky married into the prominent Lackenbacher family;[2] his father-in-law Hirsch Lackenbacher was leader of the Jewish community of Nagykanizsa, Hungary,[3] where Horschetzky began practising medicine in 1811.[4] He went on to run the town's Jewish hospital and serve as director of the Jewish community school.[5] He became a member of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1845.[1]
As a writer he devoted himself chiefly to the works of Josephus, whose Antiquities he translated and in part annotated (1826, 1843, 1851).[6] He also wrote for the journals Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, the Orient, and Ben-Chananja. He possessed remarkable humor, which appears in his fictitious Reiseberichte Nathan Ghazzati's (1848), which Julius Fürst took to be a translation from Hebrew.[7]
He died in Nagykanizsa on 7 November 1859.[6]
