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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MONTEFIORE/A/G/2
Title	Address and poem from Ascher Matzel, from Vienna
Date	[1839-1840]
Description	Address and poem from Ascher Matzel, Vienna, praising Moses Montefiore for his work (with Isaac Adolphe Crmieux) on behalf of the Jews of Damascus. Includes a drawing of a house, perhaps representing the House of Israel, with the scales of justice on the facade. Date (from chronogram): 600 [1839-1840].
Extent	1 item
AdminHistory	Born 1763, Stampfen, Hungary; at the age of seventeen he entered the service of the Jewish hospital in Vienna, became superintendent, 1799, during the war with the Turks appointed superintendent of the hospital in the fortress of Leopoldstadt, then director of the hospital of Semlin; received from Emperor Francis the gold medal of honour and from the Emperor of Russia the Order of Merit 1813; manager of the military magazine of munitions, 1814; chief of the board of health of the Rossau, a suburb of Vienna, 1830; died 1842.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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