Louis Heilprin (1851–1912) was a
Hungarian American
Hungarian Americans ( Hungarian: ''amerikai magyarok'') are Americans of Hungarian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated that there are approximately 1.396 million Americans of Hungarian descent as of 2018. The total number of people wit ...
author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in
Miskolc, Hungary
Miskolc ( , , ; Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the fourth largest ...
in 1851. His father,
Michael
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, son of
Phineas Mendel, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and literature and a follower of
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, Ľudovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...
. He had a younger brother
Angelo
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who was a professor at the
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and two sisters. The family left Hungary as refugees in 1856. Heilprin was educated by his father.
Louis and his father were both contributors to the ''
American Encyclopedia'', ''
Century Encyclopedia of Names'', ''
New International Encyclopedia
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History
''The New Intern ...
'', and ''
Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer''. He also wrote articles for ''
The Evening Post'' and ''
The Nation
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''.
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1851 births
1912 deaths
People from Miskolc
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
20th-century American historians
American encyclopedists
19th-century American historians