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MICHAEL HEILPRIN was in many ways a remarkable man. A Polish Jew, who, after a short residence in Hungary, betook himself to the United States, he exhibited an extraordinary faculty for accumulating information. The editor of his life states that he read eighteen languages and his memory was stored with tens of thousands of dates. In America he drifted into literary work and became a writer of articles in encyclopdias and journals and a frequent contributor to the Nation. Of his two sons, Louis, the elder, followed in the footsteps of his father, but Angelo was destined to achieve a wider fame.
Michael Heilprin and His Sons.
A Biography. By Gustav Pollak. Pp. xvi + 540. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.) Price 3.50 dollars net.
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Michael Heilprin and His Sons . Nature 90, 408 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090408a0
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