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Moritz Horschetzky (1777 or 1788 – 7 November 1859) was an Austrian physician, writer, and translator.

He was born to a Jewish family in Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1777 or 1788. He received a traditional early education, attended the Israelitische Hauptschule in Prague, and later acquired a doctorate in medicine in Vienna.

Horschetzky married into the prominent Lackenbacher family; his father-in-law Hirsch Lackenbacher was leader of the Jewish community of Nagykanizsa, Hungary, where Horschetzky began practising medicine in 1811. He went on to run the town's Jewish hospital and serve as director of the Jewish community school. He became a member of the Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1845.

As a writer he devoted himself chiefly to the works of Josephus, whose Antiquities he translated and in part annotated (1826, 1843, 1851). He also wrote for the journals Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, the Orient, and Ben-Chananja [he]. He possessed remarkable humor, which appears in his fictitious Reiseberichte Nathan Ghazzati's (1848), which Julius Fürst took to be a translation from Hebrew.

He died in Nagykanizsa on 7 November 1859.

Bibliography

• Geschichte der Juden seit dem Rückzuge aus der babylonischen Gefangenschaft, bis zur Schlacht bei Aza in welcher Judas der Maccabäer fiel. Antiquitates Judaicae.German. (in German). Prague: M. I. Landau. 1826. hdl:2027/hvd.hw5hia.
• Dreizehntes Buch der jüdischen Antiquitäten des Flavius Josephus (in German). Nagykanizsa. 1843.
• "Reiseberichte des Natan Ghazzati". Orient. Lit. (in German). 9: 170–172, 299–301.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kayserling, Meyer (1904). "Horschetzky, Moritz". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 469.

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• 18th-century births
• 1859 deaths
• 19th-century Austrian Jews
• 19th-century Hungarian Jews
• Jews from the Austrian Empire
• Physicians from the Austrian Empire
• Jews from Bohemia
• Historians from the Austrian Empire
• Jewish historians
• Jewish physicians
• Jewish translators
• Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• People from Nagykanizsa
• People from Nový Bydžov
• Translators from Greek
• Translators to German