Medelsheim (surname)
Medelsheim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (1730–1793), French Jewish philanthropist * Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim (1817—1883), French journalist, writer, and governmental official * Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim (born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826) was a French soldier and author. Life A French Jew and relative of Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, he was born in Strasbourg, France, and held office ...

Herz Cerfbeer Of Medelsheim
Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (german: Herz Cerf Beer von Medelsheim, born yi, נַפְתָּלִי(־הערץ) בֶּן דּוֹב־בּער ''Naphtali Ben Dov-Beer'', 1730 – December 7, 1793) was a French Jewish philanthropist. He was a contractor to the army, and employed his wealth and his influence with the French government in promoting the material and spiritual welfare of his coreligionists. The government permitted him to settle at Strasburg, in opposition to the wishes of the authorities of that city, who zealously enforced the law excluding Jews. Cerfbeer protected all Jews who were willing to earn a livelihood by manual labor. As soon as he had received (in 1775) from Louis XVI the patent granting him the rights of citizenship "for services rendered by him to the government and to the land during the famine of 1770 and 1771," Cerfbeer established factories, where he employed Jews, in order to withdraw them from petty trading, and also to deprive their accusers of all e ...
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Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr Of Medelsheim
Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim (20 July 1817, Epinal – 16 December 1883, Paris) was a French journalist, writer and governmental official. After traveling extensively in Algeria and the East, Cerfberr was attached in 1839 to the penitentiary administration in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1848 he held for a short time the position of commissary of the Republic in the Department of Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is Bo .... Among Cerfberr's numerous writings the most noteworthy are: *''Projet d'un Etablissement Pénitencier à Paris'', 1841 *''La Vérité sur les Prisons'', 1844 *''Le Silence en Prison, Réflexions d'un Condamné'', 1847 *''Ce Que Sont les Juifs en France'', 1843 *''Les Juifs, Leurs Histoire, Leurs Mœurs'', 1846 *' ...
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