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Alexander Marmorek (1865 - 1923)
Oskar Marmorek's elder brother Alexander was born in Mielnica, Galicia. He studied medicine at the Vienna university where he graduated in 1887. He moved to Paris where he became a pupil and later an assistant at the Pasteur Institute.He is the author of "Versuch einer Theorie der septischen Krankheiten" - Essay on the theory of septic diseases" (1894).
Like his brother Oskar, Alexander was an ardent Zionist. In April 1896, shortly after the publication of Theodor Herzl's "Der Judenstaat", Alexander Marmorek joined the Zionist movement. As a student he had been a member of Kadimah, the Zionist student society. He was made an officer of the first Zionist Congress, and held office in each succeeding one. He was at the head of the French Zionist Federation and the founder of the Jewish Popular University in Paris. He also took an active part in communal work in Paris, and was one of the founders of the "Echo Sioniste," the Zionist monthly published in Paris. Alexander Marmorek was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur.
The friendship that developed between Herzl and Alexander Marmorek also found its expression in Herzl's utopian novel "Altneuland" where he modeled the character of "Professor Steineck", the bacteriologist, on Alexander Marmorek. |
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