The Worms family is a family from

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and

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, tracing its descent from

Aaron Worms Aaron Worms was a chief rabbi of Metz and a Talmudist; the son of Abraham Aberle, he was born July 7, 1754, in Geislautern, a small village near Völklingen (some say Kaiserslautern); died at Metz, May 2, 1836. Biography Worms came from a family ...

of Frankfurt am Main in the middle of the eighteenth century. Aaron's great-great-grandson was created hereditary baron of the Austrian empire on April 23, 1871, and a later descendant, Baron Henry de Worms, was raised to the British peerage as Lord Pirbright.

Members

René Worms René Worms (8 December 1869, Rennes – 12 February 1926, Paris) was a French auditor of the ''Conseil d'État''. He was the son of professor of political economics, Émile Worms. Early life and education Worms was educated at the lyceum of his ...

, French auditor of the ''

Conseil d'État In France, the (; Council of State) is a governmental body that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice, which is one of the two branches of the French judiciary system. Establ ...

'', sociologist, founder of the Institut International de Sociologie in 1893. * Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (c. 1176–1238),

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

ist and Kabbalist *

Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS (20 October 1840 – 9 January 1903), known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician. Background and education Henry ...

, English statesman

* Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (aka. Jacqueline de Romilly), French philosopher, see French article {{JewishEncyclopedia, title=Worms, first1=Joseph, last1=Jacobs, author-link1=Joseph Jacobs, url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15014-worms, volume=12, page=565 Surnames Jewish-German families Jewish French history