Wallich
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German family which probably derived its name from the Hebrew transcription of "Falk" (ולק). The earliest known members of it are Joseph ben Meïr Wallich, a physician, and Moses Joshua Wallich, both of whom lived at Worms in the sixteenth century. A document relating to the purchase by Joseph b. Meïr Wallich of a Rashi and Rashbam manuscript (Worms, 1615) is signed by Joseph and by his two sons Eliezer and Solomon, all physicians and all surnamed Weibush (Phoebus?), and by thirteen other members of the Wallich family, among them the physicians Moses b. Lezer and Moses b. Moses Joshua (surnamed Weibelin). Many physicians of the Wallich family were prominent in Germany in the eighteenth century.
- Abraham ben Isaac Wallich, Physician; born at Metz
- Immanuel Wallich, Rabbi and physician of Coblenz in the 18th century
- Joseph b. Meïr Wallich, Physician; the earliest known member of the family; flourished at Worms in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Judah ben Abraham Wallich, Physician; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Moses b. Eliezer Wallich, Scholar; lived at Worms in the 17th century
- Naphtali Hirz b. Abraham Wallich, Physician; lived at Metz in the 17th century
- Solomon Wallich, Physician of Mayence, where he died May 11, 1780
[edit] Other family names
- Nathaniel Wallich
- Wallich's Pheasant, named after Nathaniel
- George Charles Wallich, see Linnean Medal
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[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
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- By: Joseph Jacobs, Gotthard Deutsch, M. Seligsohn
