Lewis Naphtali Dembitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lewis Naphtali Dembitz

Jewish-American legal scholar of German origin

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1833

Place of Birth: Sieraków, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1907

Profession: lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Lewis Naphtali Dembitz

  • Lewis Naphtali Dembitz (February 3, 1833 – March 11, 1907) was a German American legal scholar.
  • His nephew Louis Brandeis, who admired him greatly, chose law as a profession because of Dembitz.Born into a Jewish family in Zirke, in the Prussian province of Posen, he attended gymnasium in Frankfurt, Sagan, and Glogau.
  • After one semester at the Charles University in Prague studying law, he emigrated to the United States in 1849.
  • He continued to study American law in offices at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Madison, Indiana.
  • After doing journalistic work for a time, he began in 1853 to practice law in Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained for the rest of his career.Politically active, Dembitz was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention, assistant city attorney of Louisville, 1884–1888, and was a commissioner for Kentucky to the Conference for the Uniformity of State Laws.
  • In 1888, Dembitz drafted the first Australian ballot law ever adopted in the United States, to govern elections in Louisville.
  • His legal works include: Kentucky Jurisprudence, 1890; Law Language for Shorthand Writers, 1892; and Land Titles in the United States, 2 vols., 1895.
  • He is the author of "The Question of Silver Coinage," in the Present Problem Series, 1896, No.
  • 1; and has written a number of book-reviews for The Nation, 1888–97, besides articles in other magazines and in newspapers. Dembitz was strongly attached to conservative Judaism.
  • He was one of the early members of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and in 1878 a member of the commission on the plan of study for the Hebrew Union College.
  • In 1898 he acted as chairman at a convention of Orthodox congregations, and was elected a vice-president of the Orthodox Jewish Congregational Union of America.
  • In addition to memoirs, articles, and addresses which have appeared in Jewish papers, he published Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home, 1898; "The Lost Tribes," in the Andover Review, August 1889; and revised Exodus and Leviticus for the new translation of the Bible to be issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

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