Hirsch Kollisch

Hirsch etc. KOLLISCH KOLISCH: b. 5 Jan 1780, Nikolsburg - d. 10 Dec 1866, Wien

First Europe Jewish Deaf Institute

In the June, 1915 issue of The Jewish Deaf, published in New York, writer D. De Sola Pool believes that the earliest Jewish Institution for Deaf Mutes was established in 1844, in Nikolsburg, Austria.

Hirsch Kollisch, a hearing manufacturer and philanthropist, made the institute possible. His desire was quickly realized, and in three months the school was brought into existence at Hirsch Kollisch's expense. The institution opened with seven pupils. The Jewish community of Nikolsburg began to decline in numbers after 1848, and Kollisch moved to Vienna. For these reasons, the school was transferred to Vienna in 1852. Kollisch died in Vienna in 1866. Let us hold in grateful memory the name of the man who planned, endowed and opened the first school designed exclusively for Jewish deaf-mutes.

Basic Nikolsburg marriage data courtesy of Indexes to Mikulov births, marriages, and deaths online at the site of the Jewish Museum in Prague:

Židovská náboženská obec Mikulov, Rejstrík (z roku 1913) k matrikám, NOZ 1762 - 1912. III. cást: oddaní, O 1962 - 1912 (1915), písmena J - Q | Jewish Museum Collections

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KOLLISCH Herschel & HERZL Gütl m. 1799

Basic Nikolsburg birth data of children courtesy of Indexes to Mikulov births, marriages, and deaths online at the site of the Jewish Museum in Prague:

Židovská náboženská obec Mikulov, Rejstrík (z roku 1913) k matrikám, NOZ 1762 - 1912, I. cást: narození, N 1762 - 1912, písmena J - Q | Jewish Museum Collections

http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/obj...

Name of newborn: Year of birth Parents

KOLISCH Sara b. 1800 Herschl & Gütel

KOLISCH Majer b. 1802 Herschl & Gitel

KOLISCH Abraham b. 1803 Herschl & Guttel

KOLISCH Ber b. 1806 Hirschl & Gütel

KOLISCH David b. 1807 Hirschl & Gütel

KOLISCH Hendl b. 1809 Hirschl & Gütel

KOLISCH Isak Ignatz b. 1811 Hirsch & Gütel

KOLISCH Joachim b. 1814 Hirsch & Gütel

KOLISCH Jakob b. 1819 Hirschl & Gütel

Died 1866 in Vienna, per genteam.at "Burials on Viennese Jewish Cemeteries":

• Last Name Kollisch First Name Hirsch
• Profession Privatier, Witwer
• Date of Birth 88
• Date of Death 1866.12.11
• Cemetery Währing
• Group 1107, Row 4, Tomb No 498

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