Louis Heilprin (July 2, 1851
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in ''Who's Who in America
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'', p. 520 (1901-1902 edition); via archive.org
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–1912) was a
Hungarian American
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author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in
Miskolc, Hungary
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in 1851. His father,
Michael
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, son of
Phineas Mendel, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and literature and a follower of
Lajos Kossuth
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. He had a younger brother
Angelo who was a professor at the
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and two sisters. The family left Hungary as refugees in 1856. Heilprin was educated by his father.
Louis and his father were both contributors to the ''
American Encyclopedia'', ''
Century Encyclopedia of Names'', ''
New International Encyclopedia
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History
''The New Internatio ...
'', and ''
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer''. He also wrote articles for ''
The Evening Post'' and ''
The Nation
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1851 births
1912 deaths
People from Miskolc
Hungarian Jews
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20th-century American historians
American encyclopedists
19th-century American historians