- Heilprin
Family name
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related names =Alpert
footnotes =Heilprin is a Jewish surname with many variants.
Origins
Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the 16th century and the present time, there are 4 distinct branches of the Heilprin family. The progenitor of the oldest of these was Zebulun Eliezer, whose son Moses of Brest-Litovsk was brother-in-law of Samuel Edels (died 1632).
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genealogy of another branch, which includes several rabbis and prominent leaders of communities and of the Four Lands, is as follows: [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/images.jsp?artid=524&letter=H&imgid=972 See the image]The genealogy of a third branch is that made by Belinson of the family of
Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin , who went fromBrody in 1821 toOdessa , where he wasdayyan until 1835; he then succeeded Reuben Hardenstein in the rabbinate of Odessa, which Heilprin held until his death, January 13, 1877. The places following the names in the family tree on the opposite page denote in most instances the rabbinates.[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/images.jsp?artid=524&letter=H&imgid=973 Genealogical Tree of the Oldest Branch of the Heilprin Family]
The fourth branch is that of
Jehiel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel ofMinsk , author of "Seder ha-Dorot", whose son Moses succeeded him in the rabbinate, and whose grandson, Löb b. Isaac, published his work. He was probably connected with the third branch of the Heilprin family. A large number of the Heilprins now living inRussia claim descent from him.Phinehas Mendel , father of Michael Heilprin, was also probably descended from one of the several prominent Heilprins who lived in his native city, Lublin.Heilprins are to be found in almost all
Ashkenazic communities, but they are not necessarily of the same family, since most of the family names borne by the Jews ofAustria ,Germany , and Russia were assumed indiscriminately by order of their respective governments toward the end of the 18th century or at the beginning of the 19th.People with the surname Heilprin
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Angelo Heilprin , (1853-1907), American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin
*Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin (ca. 1660–ca. 1746), Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler
*Michael Heilprin (1823-1888), Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, father of Angelo and Louis
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