Henri Gradis
{{Short description|French businessman and historian}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Moïse Henri Gradis
| image = Henri GRADIS 1823-1905.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Henri Gradis, president of the Consistoire israelite de Bordeaux 1892-1905
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1823|07|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bordeaux, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1905|01|23|1823|07|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| nationality = French
| other_names =
| occupation = Businessman and historian
| known_for = Histoire de Bordeaux
}}
Moïse Henri Gradis (30 July 1823 – 23 January 1905) was a French businessman and historian.
Life
Moïse Henri Gradis was born on 30 July 1823 in Bordeaux.{{sfn|Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet}}
He came from a family of prominent Portuguese-Jewish Bordeaux merchants who had flourished in the 18th century but were ruined by the French Revolution and the insurrections in Santo Domingo and Martinique.{{cite web|author=Pierfit|title=Généalogie de la famille Gradis|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&p=antoine&n=gradis}}{{sfn|GRADIS, Jewish Encyclopedia}}
His parents were Benjamin Gradis (1789–1858) and Laure Sarah Rodrigues Henriquès (1803–46).
In 1853 he married Claire Brandame (1835–1925).
Their son was Raoul Gradis (1861–1943).{{sfn|Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet}}
Their daughter Emma Gradis married Georges Schwob d'Héricourt in 1889.{{sfn|Georges Schwob d'Héricourt ... entreprises coloniales}}
The Maison Gradis recovered, and by 1892 was selling sugar from several producers in Bordeaux, Nantes and Marseille.{{sfn|SFCO (Ancienne Maison Gradis), Les Hénokiens}}
Henri Gradis was deputy mayor of Bordeaux in 1864 and 1876.{{sfn|Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet}}
He was also the author of a history of Bordeaux and several other literary works.{{sfn|Maison GRADIS à Bordeaux, Archives Nationales}}
His history of the 1848 revolution won praise for its accuracy and lack of bias.{{sfn|The Nation 1873|p=287}}
Moïse Henri Gradis died in Paris in 1905.{{sfn|Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet}}
He was succeeded at the Maison Gradis by his son Raoul.{{sfn|Schoenberg|2012}}
Publications
- Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (translation, 1847)
- Réflexions sur le christianisme, suivies d’une lettre à un jeune Israélite (1847-1850)
- Histoire de la guerre de 1870 (1870)
- Notes sur la guerre de 1870 et sur la Commune (1872)
- Histoire de la révolution de 1848
- Judaïsme et christianisme (1874)
- Notice sur la Famille Gradis et sur la Maison Gradis et Fils de Bordeaux (1875)
- Introduction à l'histoire du peuple d'Israël; judaïsme et christianisme (1876)
- Polyxène, drame antique en 4 actes et en vers (1881)
- Jérusalem, drame en 5 actes et en vers (1883)
- {{cite book | title=Histoire de Bordeaux | publisher=Féret | location=Bordeaux | year=1901 | pages=459 | url=http://1886.u-bordeaux3.fr/items/show/1308 | access-date=2014-11-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222155407/http://1886.u-bordeaux3.fr/items/show/1308 | archive-date=2015-12-22 | url-status=dead }}
- Le peuple d'Israël (Paris, 1891)
References
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Sources
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- {{cite web
|ref={{harvid|Georges Schwob d'Héricourt ... entreprises coloniales}}
|url=http://www.entreprises-coloniales.fr/inde-indochine/Schwob_d'Hericourt_(G).pdf
|title=Georges Schwob d'Héricourt(1864-1942)
|work=Les entreprises coloniales françaises
|date=2014-09-30
|access-date=2014-11-24
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044535/http://www.entreprises-coloniales.fr/inde-indochine/Schwob_d%27Hericourt_%28G%29.pdf
|archive-date=2016-03-04
}}
- {{cite book|ref={{harvid|GRADIS, Jewish Encyclopedia}}|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6849-gradis
|chapter=GRADIS|title=Jewish Encyclopedia|year=1906|access-date=2014-11-24}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Maison GRADIS à Bordeaux, Archives Nationales}}|url=http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/camt/fr/egf/donnees_efg/180AQ_181AQ/180AQ_181AQ_INV.pdf|title=Maison GRADIS à Bordeaux|publisher=Archives Nationales|access-date=2014-11-24}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Moïse Henri GRADIS, Geneanet}}|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=fr&p=moise+henri&n=gradis&oc=1
|title=Moïse Henri GRADIS|work=Geneanet|access-date=2014-11-24}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Raoul-Gradis/6000000002764523541
|last=Schoenberg|first=Randy |date=2012-06-21 |title=Raoul Gradis|work=Geni|access-date=2014-10-21}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|SFCO (Ancienne Maison Gradis), Les Hénokiens}}|url=http://www.henokiens.com/content.php?id=51&id_membre=39&lg=fr
|title=SFCO (Ancienne Maison Gradis)|publisher=Les Hénokiens|access-date=2014-10-21}}
- {{cite book|ref={{harvid|The Nation 1873}}
|title=The Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/nation00unkngoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/nation00unkngoog/page/n266 287]
|access-date=2014-11-24
|year=1873|publisher=J.H. Richards & Company}}
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Category:Businesspeople from Bordeaux