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Harold Marcus WIENER

Male 1875 - 1929  (53 years)


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  • Name Harold Marcus WIENER 
    Birth 28 Oct 1875  9 Queen's Gardens, Hyde Park, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 23 Aug 1929  Herod's Gate, Jerusalem, Israel Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7383  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2024 

    Father Meyer Meier WIENER,   b. 6 Apr 1833, Venlo, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1908, London, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Catherine Kate MENDES DA COSTA,   b. 1833   d. 1924 (Age 91 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1872  Bryanston Street Synagogue, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F512  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Soldier Number: 17172, Rank: Private, Corps: Army Pay Corps Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards

      BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE by Rik Nulens
      Harold Marcus WIENER was born in London on 28 October 1875. He was the only child of Meyer WIENER, a merchant living in Bayswater, and of Katherine MENDES DA COSTA.
      Thus, on the maternal side, Wiener was descended from one of the most distinguished Sephardi families, one which has rendered important services to the cause of literature and science. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, were he was a Foundation Scholar, under Walker. He gained an entrance scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 1 October 1894. He was re-elected to his Scholarship in June 1895. In June 1897 he was placed in the first class (second division) of the Classical Tripos (Part I) and in the following year he was second in order of merit in the second class of the Law Tripos (Part I). In 1899 Wiener won the Senior Whewell Scholarship, to which he was re-elected in the year when he took his M.A. (1901). Later on he proceeded to the LL.B. On 1 May 1901 Wiener was called to the Bar. He was a member of Lincoln's Inn and he became an Equity Draughtsman and Conveyancer.
      During the War, Wiener served for two years as a private in the Army Pay Corps, from which he was invalided out. The death of his mother, to whom he was above all things devoted, left him free to fulfil the purpose of a lifetime and in 1924, in his forty-ninth year, he settled in Palestine. During his five years’ residence he labored to promote peace and to reconcile opposing factions.
      His household was composed of Jews, Christians, and Moslems. He was killed in the riots at Jerusalem on 23 August 1929. Obituary notices appeared in The Times, the Jewish Guardian, and the Jewish Chronicle. Wiener had been a Warden of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation in London and in spite of his absence in Palestine he was, at the time of his death, actually on the list of Elders.
      His work among the younger members of the Congregation will be particularly remembered, thus, he was the originator of the Young Sephardim Society and a staunch supporter of the Jews’ Infant School. He also took a deep interest in general no less than in communal philanthropic movements.

      The following are the titles of some of his works :
      Early Hebrew History and other Studies ; The Integrity of the Old Testament ; The Prophets of Israel in History and Criticism ; The Origin of the Pentateuch ; Pentateuchal Studies ; The Date of Exodus; The Religion of Moses ; The Main Problem of Deuteronomy ; Old Testament Altars.
      Numerous articles in the Illustrated Bible Dictionary ; Bibliotheca Sacra ; The Conveyancer ; Theologisch Tijdschrift ; Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.
      Posthumous Essays by Harold M. Wiener. Edited by H. Loewe. London : Oxford University Press, 1932, pp. x-xi. (Price. 7s. 6d.)


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