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Gabriel Riesser
Gabriel Riesser (2 April 1806 – 22 April 1863) was a German politician and lawyer.
Life.
Both of Riesser's grandfathers were rabbis; his paternal grandfather was Jakob Pinchas Katzenellenbogen, rabbi in Lemberg and later Oettingen, and his maternal grandfather was Raphael Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek from 1775. Yet his father, having changed the family name from Katzenellenbogen to Riesser, chose to work as a secretary at the Jewish law court of Altona before he finally became a merchant
his, to the Jewish section of Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg.
There is a street named after Riesser In Hamburg-Hamm.
External links.
- Excerpts from the Pamphlet by Gabriel Riesser proposing the Emancipation of the Jews (1831)