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Abrahamson, Abraham Abramowitsch, Solomon Jacob

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"E(|iiippin<; the Prussian Troops" (1778); "Peace of Tesclun" (1779); "Dc-alli of Duke U'opolil of Brunswick"; "Peace with Hussia " (17(i2); "Occupation of the District of the Nelz<-" (1772); "The Kinir's Seventy-lirst Birthchiy" (178'2); "liitnxluc lion of Silkworm Culture" (1783); "Moetinj; of the Monarchsat Tilsit " (lyOS) " Death of tjucen Louise" (1810); " Enfrancliiscment of the Jews in Westphalia": "The Emancipation of the Jews by Alexander I." the last two are known as historic thalers.



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two years later a similar institution for girls, in both of which instruction in manual training formed an iniporlant filature. At the head of these schools be his

l)laceil

nephew, Otto Salomon,

to

whose

efforts

the remarkable success of the undertaking was largely due. To meet the growing  or  name "August Abrahamson 's Every year large numbers of students

continued under Sliflelse."

from all parts of the world receive at the .seminary graluilous instruction in sloid work. The splendid results a<'hieved. an<l the world-wide renown of the institution, are worthy memorials of the jiioneer of manual training in the Scandinavian peninsula. AbrabaiusoQ'8 Metial connin*nii»railniJ the Eutaucipallou of tbe Jews by Alexander I.

designed and engraved a medal commemorating the death of Queen Alarie Antoinette; but his greatest work was a medal bearing the bust of Frederick the Great on a stone pediment that crushes a sphinx. The legend on this meilal reads, "Fredoricus Legislator 1785." In addition to these Abrahamson executed a series of medals of the great men of his time. This included Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Lessing. Wieland, Kander, Sulzer, Enler, Spalding, D. Bernouilli, Overbeck. Kololf, ^larggraiT, Formey, Martini, Gall, Burg, Gelihardi, Weisse, Spiegel, and others. The frontispiece of

BiBUOiJRAi-llv: Chiimhcrs' Encu. under

A. S. C.

ABRAHAMSON, DAVID

lie also

the eighty-sixth volume of the Kri'iuit/.-Florke "Okonomische Encyklopjidie " (Hcrlin, iW2) is a copperplate portrait of Abrahamson. lie is the author of "Versuchuber den Gesclimack auf Me" (Essay on Style in Jledals and daillen und .Miinzen Coins). Berlin.

.Many other designs created

1801.

by him have been cut by Daniel Berger, and afterward reproduced in copi)erplate as engravings for books. BIDLIOGRAPHT



Meusel,

Teutsches Knnstlerkrikon

.

1808;

NIcolai, 7}i S(')iriistliili.iilit Meyer, AUg. KUnxllciicxilum, i. 3S, Leipsic, 1873.

F. S.

W.

ABRAHAMSON, AUGUST: thropist,

and lounderof

llie

Swedish philanSluid Seminary of Niiiis,

near Goteborg; born Dec. 29, 1817, at Karlskrona,

Sweden, where his parents, originallv from German v, had settled; died May (i, 1808; at Xiiiis. August "in his fourteenth year was apprenticed tf) a hardware merchant in Gi'iteborg. and eventually he became founder and owner of one of the most extensive businesses in Sweden. The large fortune which he thus accumulated was used by him for the improvement of the educational system of his native country. In 18(i8 he retired from business, and bought the magnificent estate of Niiiis, with its i)ictures(|ue old castle. Here he at once devoted himself to philanthropic and educational work, founding free schools, and otherwise furthering the material and spiritual interests of the community in which he lived. Litter his efforts were directed to wider enterprises. In 1872 he established at NUiis an industrial school for boys, and

S!o)/tJ.



German

physician;

born in Danzig, 1740; died therein 18l)(l. IIe"studied medicine at Kiinigsbeig, -11111 from 177.'i jiractised liis lirofessiou at IIaseni)oth in Kurland. Shortly before his death he returned to his birthplace, lli' published " Betracht iingen eines Arztes am Kraukenbette seines Patienten," Konigsberg, 1785. ,

Bini.iofiRAPIIV: Wunderbar, Oench. tier Juikn in Lirr-unil Karhtiitl, Mitau, 18.T:f; Itosentlial, Toitdiif -d ii»)ic Slicm lie-

Kurhind

in

Ha-Mdiz. U. H.

ABRAHAMSON (ABRAMSON), MEYER: A

(ieniiaii

at

Hamburg.

phvsieian and writer on mi'dieine; born 1704; died there October 21. 1817. He graduated from the I'niversity of GiJItiugen in 1783 and began jiraclise in his native city, where his father hail also been a medical practitioner. Shortly afterward he was appointed physician to the Jewish Hospitjil in the city of Hamburg and to the poor of that city. In 178-i he began his literary career and became a prolific and popular writer on medical subjects. Most of his essjiys w-ere i>iiblishcii in " Hichter's Chirurgiseho Bibliothek," " lialdinger's Magazin," "Meckel's Neues Archiv der Praclischen Heilkunde," and "Hufeland's Journal." In book form he published; " Abliandlungen und Beobachtungen Uber Einige Krankheiten der Augen " (1785); "Unterricht fi'ir Diejeuigen. die mit Leibesbri'ichen Behaftet Sind" (178: "Einige Worte an das Publikum i'lber die Wichtigkeit der Kuh]iocken-Iinlifung" (1801); "lliimorrhoiden" (third ed., 1815; translateil into Swedish, 1807): "Gicht" (1815; seced., 181) " Der Arzt fiir Ilypochondrische und

ond



Of a more Sci(1817). entific character is his treatise, "Untersuchungen idler die Gi"o.sse Sterblichkeit unter Schwangeri'n. Hysteri.sehe

Fiauenzimmer "

Wiichnerimien und Neugeborenen Kindern" (I806). Alirahamson was a member of several .scientific societies of Germany and Sweden. Bibliography Ur,

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Schimicr and Klosp. Uamhurger SchrifUtelEncricluncdU, s. v.

ha Grande

M. B.

ABRAMOVICH, MIKHAIL SOLOMONOVICH l{u.ssian poet, son of Solomon (Sh;doni)

Abramovich cated at the



born at Berditchev in 1859, and eduAt the age of of Jitomir.

Gymnasium