Metadata: Lieben Salomon Hugo, Dr.
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 277
- Title:
- Lieben Salomon Hugo, Dr.
- Title (official language):
- Lieben Salomon Hugo, Dr.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Salomon Hugo Lieben
- Date(s):
- 1913/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.33 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents, correspondence, photographs and studies on the history of the Jews.
- Archival history:
- The material came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague, along with the records of the wartime Central Jewish Museum in Prague.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr. Salomon Hugo Lieben was a secondary school teacher, founder of the Jewish Museum in Prague and author of a number of studies on the history of the Jews in the Bohemian lands. He was born in Prague on 28 April 1881, attended the rabbinical seminary in Frankfurt am Main and read Oriental Studies at the German University in Prague, graduating in 1909. At that time he was already focusing on the history of the Jews in Bohemia, particularly in Prague. At the 1906 constituent meeting of the Association for the Founding and Maintaining of a Jewish Museum in Prague he was appointed its executive director. He contributed to a number of specialist periodicals. After completing his studies, he worked as a secondary-school teacher of religion. During the Second World War he served on the specialist cataloguing committees of the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. He died in Prague on 10 November 1942.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lieben, Salomon Hugo, 1881-1942
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Salomon Hugo Lieben, Dr. (1881-1942), 2011, 9 s., AP č. 323
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
