Louise Herschman Mannheimer (3 September 1845 - December 17, 1920) was a Czech-American Jewish author, poet, school founder, and inventor. Mannheimer was the founder of the Cincinnati Jewish Industrial School for Boys. She held patents for several devices. She was the inventor of the "Pureairin" Patent Ventilator.
Biography
Louise Herschman was born at
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...
,
Bohemia, 3 September 1845. Her parents were Joseph Herschman and Katherine Urbach.
Herschman Mannheimer was educated at St. Teine School, privately, and at Normal School, Prague, and
University of Cincinnati
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.
In 1866, she went with her parents to
New York City
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, and three years later, married Sigmund Mannheimer (1835-1909). As the wife of Professor Mannheimer, she strongly seconded his teaching and communal work, both in
Rochester, New York
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and in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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, but made time for literary labors.
She wrote poems, articles, and reviews for German and English periodicals. She was the author of, ''How Joe Learned to Darn Stockings'', and other juvenile stories. Zimmermann's ''Deutscli in Amerika'' (
Chicago
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, 1894) contains some of her poems and a short biographical notice. Among her productions in English are "The Storm," a translation of one of
Judah Halevi
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; he, יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi ; ar, يهوذا اللاوي ''Yahuḏa al-Lāwī''; 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, ...
's poems, and "The Harvest," a prize poem (printed in ''The American Jews' Annual'', Cincinnati, 1897). In 1895, she published under the title of "The Jewish Woman" a translation of
Nahida Remy's "Das Ji'idische Weib" ("The Jewish Woman") (second edition, 1897). She was the author of "The Maiden's Song".
Herschman Mannheimer worked as a director of a private school, in Prague; teacher of a Sabbath School, Congregation Berith Kodesh, in Rochester; and teacher, Mrs. Leopold Weil's School,
New York City
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. She was the inventor of the Pureairin Patent Ventilator; and founder and president, Boys' Industrial School, Cincinnati. She served as president of the German Women's Club, Rochester; was a
contralto
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The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typica ...
at the Temple Ahawath Chesed, New York; and Sabbath School teacher, at Temple Shaare Emeth,
St. Louis, Missouri
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.
She was a speaker at 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
Congress of History and Congress of Religions, in
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; and for Mothers' Meetings, in
Cincinnati
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. She a featured speaker at the
Jewish Women’s Congress (1893) on the topic of "Jewish Women of Biblical and Mediaeval Times".
Herschman Mannheimer and her husband lived in
Baltimore
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, New York City,
St. Louis
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, and Rochester before settling in Cincinnati where he taught at the
Hebrew Union College. They had two sons, Eugene and Leo, who both became rabbis, and two daughters, the dramatist and elocutionist
Jennie Mannheimer (Jane Manner), and the elocutionist Edna B. Mannheimer (Edna B. Manner). Mannheimer died in New York, December 17, 1920.
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Jewish Encyclopedia
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1845 births
1920 deaths
20th-century Czech poets
Czech women poets
American women poets
Founders of schools in the United States
Writers from Prague
19th-century American inventors
20th-century American women writers
Women inventors
Elocutionists
Women founders
School founders