Background
He was born in Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797 and died at Cracow 1860.
He was born in Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797 and died at Cracow 1860.
After studying philosophy and medicine in Berlin, he settled as a physician in Cracow, and as "Der Berliner Doctor" soon acquired an extensive practice and accumulated a considerable fortune. Kirschbaum was the author of a long Hebrew essay, entitled "Hilkot Yeme ha-Mashiaḥ." In the German language he published "Der Jüdische Alexandrinismus," Leipsic, 1841, and "Der Familie Apotheose," Cracow, 1858.S. M. We.
