Abrahamson, Abraham Abramowitsch, Solomon Jacob
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
"E(|iiippin<; the Prussian Troops" (1778); "Peace of Tesclun" (1779); "Dc-alli of Duke U'opolil of Brunswick"; "Peace with Hussia " (17(i2); "Occupation of the District of the Nelz<-" (1772); "The Kinir's Seventy-lirst Birthchiy" (178'2); "liitnxluc lion of Silkworm Culture" (1783); "Moetinj; of the Monarchsat Tilsit " (lyOS) " Death of tjucen Louise" (1810); " Enfrancliiscment of the Jews in Westphalia": "The Emancipation of the Jews by Alexander I." the last two are known as historic thalers.
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two years later a similar institution for girls, in both of which instruction in manual training formed an iniporlant filature. At the head of these schools be his
l)laceil
nephew, Otto Salomon,
to
whose
efforts
the remarkable success of the undertaking was largely due. To meet the growing <Iemand for instructors ID handicrafts, Abrahamson and liis neiihew added in 1874 a sloid-training department forteachers. Sloid work may be des( iil)e<l as a series of carefully graduated exercises in the making of articles of common
household
u.se. varying from simple objects, suehasa pen-rest, to a tabli> or <abinel. This sloid-training department dcvelo|)<Ml into thi' great Sloid Seminary of Niiiis. which, by Al)rahamson's will, became possessed of his entire estate (y8(),000 crowns, or about §102,600) on ccmdiliou that the institution should he
th<> name "August Abrahamson 's Every year large numbers of students
continued under Sliflelse."
from all parts of the world receive at the .seminary graluilous instruction in sloid work. The splendid results a<'hieved. an<l the world-wide renown of the institution, are worthy memorials of the jiioneer of manual training in the Scandinavian peninsula. AbrabaiusoQ'8 Metial connin*nii»railniJ the Eutaucipallou of tbe Jews by Alexander I.
designed and engraved a medal commemorating the death of Queen Alarie Antoinette; but his greatest work was a medal bearing the bust of Frederick the Great on a stone pediment that crushes a sphinx. The legend on this meilal reads, "Fredoricus Legislator 1785." In addition to these Abrahamson executed a series of medals of the great men of his time. This included Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Lessing. Wieland, Kander, Sulzer, Enler, Spalding, D. Bernouilli, Overbeck. Kololf, ^larggraiT, Formey, Martini, Gall, Burg, Gelihardi, Weisse, Spiegel, and others. The frontispiece of
BiBUOiJRAi-llv: Chiimhcrs' Encu. under
A. S. C.
ABRAHAMSON, DAVID
lie also
the eighty-sixth volume of the Kri'iuit/.-Florke "Okonomische Encyklopjidie " (Hcrlin, iW2) is a copperplate portrait of Abrahamson. lie is the author of "Versuchuber den Gesclimack auf Me" (Essay on Style in Jledals and daillen und .Miinzen Coins). Berlin.
.Many other designs created
1801.
by him have been cut by Daniel Berger, and afterward reproduced in copi)erplate as engravings for books. BIDLIOGRAPHT
Meusel,
Teutsches Knnstlerkrikon
.
1808;
NIcolai, 7}i S(')ir<i7(»n(; Bcrlin'x. Hi. .3, aiipenill.x, Berlin. 1786 TissUKI>iistliili.iili<m,ii.2: i7)iV/.. su|i|ileiiiiMit. p. :i; Sclilickeysen. Krlil'irtnini n ihr AhhUrztuiw n mif Minizrii. 18.57, liert'iT, Wcrke. Nos. J.V.i. iHi)-W8. jijii; Julius pp. 41, 4;t, .>t Meyer, AUg. KUnxllciicxilum, i. 3S, Leipsic, 1873.
F. S.
W.
ABRAHAMSON, AUGUST: thropist,
and lounderof
llie
Swedish philanSluid Seminary of Niiiis,
near Goteborg; born Dec. 29, 1817, at Karlskrona,
Sweden, where his parents, originallv from German v, had settled; died May (i, 1808; at Xiiiis. August "in his fourteenth year was apprenticed tf) a hardware merchant in Gi'iteborg. and eventually he became founder and owner of one of the most extensive businesses in Sweden. The large fortune which he thus accumulated was used by him for the improvement of the educational system of his native country. In 18(i8 he retired from business, and bought the magnificent estate of Niiiis, with its i)ictures(|ue old castle. Here he at once devoted himself to philanthropic and educational work, founding free schools, and otherwise furthering the material and spiritual interests of the community in which he lived. Litter his efforts were directed to wider enterprises. In 1872 he established at NUiis an industrial school for boys, and
S!o)/tJ.
German
physician;
born in Danzig, 1740; died therein 18l)(l. IIe"studied medicine at Kiinigsbeig, -11111 from 177.'i jiractised liis lirofessiou at IIaseni)oth in Kurland. Shortly before his death he returned to his birthplace, lli' published " Betracht iingen eines Arztes am Kraukenbette seines Patienten," Konigsberg, 1785. ,
Bini.iofiRAPIIV: Wunderbar, Oench. tier Juikn in Lirr-unil Karhtiitl, Mitau, 18.T:f; Itosentlial, Toitdiif -d ii»)ic Slicm lie-
Kurhind
in
Ha-Mdiz. U. H.
ABRAHAMSON (ABRAMSON), MEYER: A
(ieniiaii
at
Hamburg.
phvsieian and writer on mi'dieine; born 1704; died there October 21. 1817. He graduated from the I'niversity of GiJItiugen in 1783 and began jiraclise in his native city, where his father hail also been a medical practitioner. Shortly afterward he was appointed physician to the Jewish Hospitjil in the city of Hamburg and to the poor of that city. In 178-i he began his literary career and became a prolific and popular writer on medical subjects. Most of his essjiys w-ere i>iiblishcii in " Hichter's Chirurgiseho Bibliothek," " lialdinger's Magazin," "Meckel's Neues Archiv der Praclischen Heilkunde," and "Hufeland's Journal." In book form he published; " Abliandlungen und Beobachtungen Uber Einige Krankheiten der Augen " (1785); "Unterricht fi'ir Diejeuigen. die mit Leibesbri'ichen Behaftet Sind" (178(;): "Einige Worte an das Publikum i'lber die Wichtigkeit der Kuh]iocken-Iinlifung" (1801); "lliimorrhoiden" (third ed., 1815; translateil into Swedish, 1807): "Gicht" (1815; seced., 181()) " Der Arzt fiir Ilypochondrische und
ond
Of a more Sci(1817). entific character is his treatise, "Untersuchungen idler die Gi"o.sse Sterblichkeit unter Schwangeri'n. Hysteri.sehe
Fiauenzimmer "
Wiichnerimien und Neugeborenen Kindern" (I806). Alirahamson was a member of several .scientific societies of Germany and Sweden. Bibliography Ur,
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Schimicr and Klosp. Uamhurger SchrifUtelEncricluncdU, s. v.
ha Grande
M. B.
ABRAMOVICH, MIKHAIL SOLOMONOVICH l{u.ssian poet, son of Solomon (Sh;doni)
Abramovich cated at the
born at Berditchev in 1859, and eduAt the age of of Jitomir.
Gymnasium
