Letter from Hollander, Jacob H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Aug 1891
- Title
- Letter from Hollander, Jacob H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Aug 1891
- Date Created
- 19 August 1891
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- 4 pages on 4 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 6, Folder 5
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3610wb5v/manifest.json
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- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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Balto. Aug. 19, 1891
Rev. Dr. S. Morais,
Phila, Pa.
Dear Sir,
The reference libraries of both the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute are closed during the summer, and I have had some difficulty in verifying my notes. This will explain my delay in writing to you. As you will remember, I told you, in regard to the Lumbrozo matter, that at the present time there lived in Turin, one Professor Cesare Lombroso, a Jew and an em-inent penalogist. You agreed that he, as a man of great learning would be more likely than any of his connections
to know the history of his family and to throw light on the mysterious "Dr Jacob Lumbrozo" who flourished in Maryland about as early as 1657. You were kind enough to consent to write to Dr. Lom-brozo, but thought it would be better to first learn from your Italian correspon-dent exactly who and what he is. Accord-ingly you wished for some facts to enable your friend to locate him. Those which I add are, I fear, hardly as satisfactory as they might be. Professor Lombroso is a man of such great fame, however, that I am sure they are sufficient to identify him.
A brief sketch of him--as a criminal anthropologist, not as a Jew-- is given in Havelock Ellis' new book "The Criminal"-p. 28. It says in part:
'Prof. Cesare Lombroso of Turin,-- of the University of Turin, I believe--was born in 1836 of Venetian parentage. His
youth was devoted to literary, sociological and archaeological studies. In 1859 he became a soldier and afterwards a mil-itary surgeon. In 1862, he was placed in charge of the Department of Mental Diseases at Pavia the University of Pavia. From there he was called to the head of the Asylum at Pesaro, but returned to psychical work in Pavia. In 1876 appeared the first volume of his great work, L'Uomo Delinquente, the second not until 1889. More recently he has written in collaboration with an attor-ney, R. Laschi, a work advocating the hereditary theory of political crimes, the title of which is "Il delitto politico e le Rev-oluzioni"
Schürer in his Geschichte des Jüdischen Volkes zur Zeit Jesu-Vol II, p. 534, 536 refers to a monograph by one Lom-broso, in all likelihood the name Prof. Cesare Lombroso, since it was published in a Turin Jo journal--Memorio della
Reale Academia della Grenze de Turino--Series II, vol XXVII. It is interesting as showing that Lombrozo is interested in Jewish history as it is an historical study of the status of the Alexandrian Jews during the palmy days of the Egyptian city.
This is about all that I have been able to learn of him. I have encountered various references to what are undoubtedly other members of the same family. These, as well as the known de-tails of the life of the Maryland Lumbrozo, I will communicate whenever you may wish. Thanking you exceedingly for your very kind courtesy, of which, as you see, I have not hesitated to avail my-self, I remain Yours truly Jacob H. Hollander, Johns Hopkins Univ. Balto., Ind. - Identifier
- p3610wb5v
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- SMBx6FF5_3
Part of Letter from Hollander, Jacob H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Aug 1891
Hollander, Jacob H. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Hollander, Jacob H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Aug 1891”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/86962