Moïse Henri Gradis
Henri Gradis, president of the Consistoire israelite de Bordeaux 1892-1905
Born(1823-07-30)30 July 1823
Bordeaux, France
Died23 January 1905(1905-01-23) (aged 81)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Businessman and historian
Known forHistoire de Bordeaux

Moïse Henri Gradis (30 July 1823 – 23 January 1905) was a French businessman and historian.

Life

Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux.[1] He came from a family of prominent Portuguese-Jewish Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique.[2][3] His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46). In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925). Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943).[1] Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889.[4]

The Maison Gradis recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille.[5] Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876.[1] He was also author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works.[6] His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias.[7] Moïse Henri Gradis died in Paris in 1905.[1] He was succeeded at the Maison Gradis by his son Raoul.[8]

Publications

  • Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (translation, 1847)
  • Réflexions sur le christianisme, suivies d’une lettre à un jeune Israélite (1847-1850)
  • Histoire de la guerre de 1870 (1870)
  • Notes sur la guerre de 1870 et sur la Commune (1872)
  • Histoire de la révolution de 1848
  • Judaïsme et christianisme (1874)
  • Notice sur la Famille Gradis et sur la Maison Gradis et Fils de Bordeaux (1875)
  • Introduction à l'histoire du peuple d'Israël ; judaïsme et christianisme (1876)
  • Polyxène, drame antique en 4 actes et en vers (1881)
  • Jérusalem, drame en 5 actes et en vers (1883)
  • Histoire de Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Féret. 1901. p. 459. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  • Le peuple d'Israël (Paris, 1891)

References

    1. 1 2 3 4 Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet.
    2. ↑ Pierfit. "Généalogie de la famille Gradis".
    3. ↑ GRADIS, Jewish Encyclopedia.
    4. ↑ Georges Schwob d'Héricourt ... entreprises coloniales.
    5. ↑ SFCO (Ancienne Maison Gradis), Les Hénokiens.
    6. ↑ Maison GRADIS à Bordeaux, Archives Nationales.
    7. ↑ The Nation 1873, p. 287.
    8. ↑ Schoenberg 2012.

    Sources

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