(J. T. A Mail Service)
Messages of congratulation were received by Professor S. Frankfurt on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
Professor Frankfurt who was born in Vilna, studied at the University of Zurich, where he became a lecturer. He was afterwards appointed lecturer at Moscow University and in 1900 he became professor at the University of Petersburg. He held a high position in the Ministry of Agriculture which sent him to Kiev to establish an agricultural experimental station there. He was regarded as the leading grain expert of Russia.
In Petersburg. Professor Frankfurt was a member of the agricultural commission of the Ica. While he was in Kiev, he was put forward by the Jewish population as a candidate for the first Duma. During the famine period in Russia, he submittd to the Ort a plan for providing the Jewish colonists with Maize. He was elected a member of the Central Administration of the Ort at the Ort Conference held in Danzig in 1923.
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