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Baron Horace* Naftali Herz von Günzburg (Günzburg)

Russian: Барон Гораций Осипович Гинцбург, Hebrew: הברון נפתלי הרץ גינצבורג
Also Known As: "Naftali Hirsch dit Horace", "baron de Günzburg"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Zonigorodka, Kiev, Russian Empire
Death: March 01, 1909 (76)
St. Peterburg, Russian Empire
Place of Burial: Paris, France
Immediate Family:

Son of Baron Joseph von Günzburg and Baroness Rosa Rasia von Günzburg
Husband of Baronin Anna von Günzburg
Father of Gabriel Jacob de Gunzburg; Marc de Gunzburg; Baron David de Gunzberg; Mordechai Maximillian De Gunzburg; Louise Sassoon and 8 others
Brother of Alexander Ziskind De Gunzburg; Juri Uri de Gunzburg; Eve Mathilde Fould and Baron Salomon David de Günzburg

Occupation: Banker à Saint-Petersbourg
Managed by: Pierre( aka Peter) Halban
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About Baron Horace* Naftali Herz von Günzburg

born Feb. 8, 1833, Zvenigorodka, Russia

died March 2, 1909, St. Petersburg

Russian businessman, philanthropist, and vigilant fighter for the rights of his Jewish co-religionists in the teeth of persecution by the Russian government. His father was the philanthropist Joseph Günzburg. His son David became a prominent Orientalist and bibliophile.

For a time, Horace Günzburg ran the banking firm that his father had founded, but he closed it during a financial crisis, even though it was solvent. In 1863, along with his father, he founded the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, a highly successful organization that disseminated Jewish culture in the Russian language; he became president of the society upon his father's death in 1878 and almost single-handedly financed it, sponsoring translations into Russian of such classic works as Heinrich Graetz's Geschichte der Juden von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart (“History of the Jews from Oldest Times to the Present”) and the Bible. In the early 1870s, again like his father, he was created a baron.

In 1870 and again in 1877, as a representative of Russian Jewry, Günzburg appeared before governmental commissions investigating the “Jewish question.” In 1882 he chaired a Jewish congress called in response to the government's infamous May Laws of that year, which further confined Jews to the overcrowded ghetto known as the Pale of Settlement.

Günzburg not only attempted to ameliorate governmental oppression but also actively supported organizations working in other ways in behalf of the Jews. He assumed successively the offices of chairman of the central committee of the Jewish Agricultural Society (1893) and the presidency of the board of directors of the Jewish Agricultural Farms in Minsk (1901). In 1908 he was a cofounder of the Russian Jewish Historical Ethnographic Society in St. Petersburg.

Günzburg's activities were not confined to helping the Jews. The government frequently called upon him for advice on laws dealing with the Stock Exchange and other major business institutions, and he was a large contributor to the building of the Stock Exchange Hospital, a trustee of the School of Commerce of Tsar Nicholas II, and an alderman of St. Petersburg.

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О Бароне Горацом Осиповиче Гинцбурге (русский)

Барон Гора́ций О́сипович Ги́нцбург (1833, Звенигородка, Киевская губерния — 1909, Петербург) — в 1870-е и 1880-е годы один из богатейших людей Российской империи, действительный статский советник, купец первой гильдии, глава финансовой династии Гинцбургов. Ктитор Большой хоральной синагоги в Петербурге.

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Baron Horace* Naftali Herz von Günzburg's Timeline

1833
February 8, 1833
Zonigorodka, Kiev, Russian Empire
1855
1855
Zhytomyr, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
1857
July 5, 1857
Kaminietz Podolsk, Russian Federation
1857
1859
1859
1862
1862
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
1863
April 24, 1863
Paris, Île-de-France, France
1865
March 3, 1865
1866
November 1, 1866
Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
1870
1870