Graetz, HEINRICH

Graetz, HEINRICH, Jewish theologian, was born in 1817 at Xions in Posen, and studied at Breslau, where in 1854 he became teacher in the Jewish seminary, and in 1870 also extraordinary professor in the University. He died 7th September 1891. He wrote commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Joel, the Psalms, and a work on Gnosticism and Judaism; but is remembered by his great Geschichte der Juden (11 vols. 1853-75; 4th ed. 1892; abridged in 3 vols. 1888-89 and translated in 5 by Bella Löwy in 1891-92).