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111Lévy-Bruhl — [levi bryːl], Lucien, französischer Philosoph und Ethnologe, * Paris 10. 4. 1857, ✝ ebenda 13. 3. 1939; Professor an der Sorbonne, seit 1917 Herausgeber der »Revue philosophique«; Mitbegründer des Instituts für Ethnologie an der Sorbonne. Lévy… …
112LEVY, SIR ALBERT — (1864–1937), English philanthropist. After a successful business career as founder, chairman, and managing director of the Ardath Tobacco Co., he retired in 1931 to devote himself to philanthropy. He was knighted in 1929. His special interest was …
113LEVY, ASSER — (d. 1681), New York merchant and landowner. Levy was a member of the first group of Jews to arrive in New Amsterdam, in September 1654. In the following years he successfully contested a tax assessed against Jews who were refused the right to… …
114LEVY, CLIFTON HARBY — (1867–1962), U.S. Reform rabbi. Born in New Orleans, his family had settled in the American colonies in 1740. Levy was ordained at Hebrew Union College (1890), was rabbi of Congregation Gates of Hope, New York City (1890–91), and superintendent… …
115LEVY, SIR DANIEL — (1873–1937), Australian politician. Born in London, Levy was taken to Sydney as a child. In 1901 he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, remaining a member for various seats in inner east Sydney until his death 36… …
116LEVY, HYMAN — (1889–1975), British mathematician. Levy was born in Edinburgh and was professor of mathematics at the Imperial College of Science, London, from 1923 to 1955, and was dean of the Royal College of Science (1948–54). During World War I he worked on …
117LÉVY, ISIDORE — (1870–1954), historian of religion. Born in Rixheim, Alsace, Lévy taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (1905–28) in the departments of religion and historical and philological sciences, as well as at Lille (1919–23), the Sorbonne (1923–27), the… …
118LEVY, JOSEPH LEONARD — (1865–1917), U.S. Reform rabbi. Levy was born in London. He graduated from the University of London in 1884 and was trained for the Orthodox ministry at Jews College, London. From 1885 to 1889 he served the Bristol Hebrew Congregation. In 1889 he …
119LEVY, JUDAH (Mercado) BEN MENAHEM — (c. 1790– c. 1875), rabbi in Ereẓ Israel. Levy was born in Sarajevo from where he moved to Ragusa, immigrating to Jerusalem in his youth. He was appointed rabbi of Jaffa in 1825 by the Jerusalem rabbinate and may be regarded as the real founder …
120LÉVY, LAZARE — (1882–1964), French pianist and composer. Born in Brussels, Lévy studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he obtained first prize for piano in 1898. A remarkable interpreter of the classical repertory and modern compositions as well, Lévy played …
