(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Gregorius Iteisohn, well-known Russian Jewish writer and scientist, died here yesterday as a result of injuries he received when a group of Hakenkreuzler attacked him on Christmas Eve 1925.
The attack was made on him when he was walking on Kuerfuerstendamm in Berlin. It was made by Baron Engelhardt, German anti-Semitic leader.
Baron Engelhardt shouted as he beat Dr. Itelsohn, “Knock down the Jew. Kill him!” Leaving Dr. Itelsohn unconscious and covered with blood, the Baron tried to escape but a taxi driver prevented him and handed him over to the police.
Dr. Itelsohn, who was 74 years old, settled in Berlin in 1885. He was an intimate friend of the Russian writers, Dostoyevsky and Turgenieff, and of the philosopher Dr. Herman Cohen, and Dr. Albert Einstein. He translated the latter’s works into Russian.
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