Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn (1886–1974) by Howard Coster, 1938 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hahn, Kurt Matthias Robert Martin (1886–1974), educationist, was born in Berlin on 5 June 1886, the second of four sons (there was no daughter) of Oskar Hahn, a businessman in the steel industry, and his wife, Charlotte Landau, who was of Polish origin. After secondary education at the ...
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W. D. Rubinstein
Leitner [formerly Sapier], Gottlieb Wilhelm (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist, was born at Pest, Hungary, on 15 September 1840. His name at birth, which was registered with the Jewish community of Pest, was Gottlieb Sapier. He was the only son (there was a younger daughter) of ...
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Patrick Waddington
Schwabe, Julie (1818–1896), philanthropist and educationist, was born at Bremen on 31 January 1818, daughter of the Jewish merchant Gottschalk Herz Schwabe, and was educated at Hamburg and Leipzig. She was originally named Ricke Rosetta Schwabe; by the time of her marriage she had the name ...
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Alice Louisa Theodora Zimmern (1855–1939) by Kenneth Green, 1930s The Mistress and Fellows, Girton College, Cambridge
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Zimmern, Alice Louisa Theodora (1855–1939), educationist and suffragist, was born on 22 September 1855 at Postern Street, Nottingham, the youngest of three daughters of Hermann Theodor Zimmern, a German Jewish immigrant with scholarly interests who was in business as a lace merchant, and his wife, ...
