Achille Halphen
Achille Halphen · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Juge et secrétaire du Consistoire israélite de Paris, dont le nom fonde le prix Halphen en 1861
19 février 1825 — 25 août 1856
Paris (France) — mort à Biarritz
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Origins and early life
Achille Halphen was born in Paris on 19 February 1825, into one of the notable Jewish families of the capital: his father Edmond Halphen was mayor of the second arrondissement of Paris, and his uncle Anselme Halphen was a regent of the Bank of France, which is to say that within two generations of the emancipation of 1791 a Jewish family sat in the municipal government of Paris and in the direction of the national bank.
Work and career
He was a judge at the civil court of Versailles. He was also secretary of the Israelite Consistory of Paris, the body that governed the Jewish community of the city, and a historian and philanthropist besides. He died young, at Biarritz on 25 August 1856, at thirty-one, before he could complete much of what he had begun. His family founded in 1861 the Prix Halphen in his memory, awarded every three years by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and later by the Académie française, so that his name has gone on being read out in French learned society for a century and a half.
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Juge et secrétaire du Consistoire israélite de Paris, dont le nom fonde le prix Halphen en 1861
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Halphen