Sigmund Zeisler
{{Short description|American lawyer (1860–1931)}}
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|4|11}}
|birth_place = Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire
|death_date = {{death date and age|1931|6|4|1860|4|11}}
|death_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States
|alma_mater = University of Vienna
|education = J.D. Northwestern University School of Law
|occupation = Lawyer
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- {{Marriage|Fannie Bloomfield|1885|1927|end=d.}}
- {{Marriage|Amelia Spellman|1930}}
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- Leonard Bloomfield Zeisler
- Paul Bloomfield Zeisler
- Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler
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- Claire Zeisler (daughter-in-law)
- Maurice Bloomfield (brother-in-law)
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Sigmund Zeisler (1860–1931) was a German-Jewish U.S. attorney born in Austria and known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s. His wife was the famed concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
Childhood, marriage and legal education
Sigmund Zeisler was born in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia on April 11, 1860.{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0M0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA135 |title=Stephen S. Gregory |journal=Chicago Legal News |volume=XXXVI |number=42 |page=343 |date=1904-06-04 |via=Google Books}} He began his education at the University of Vienna and emigrated to Chicago in 1883.
Zeisler graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1884.{{Cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-jun-12-1931-4591876/ |title=Sigmund Zeisler is Dead |newspaper=The Sentinel |publication-place=Chicago |page=13 |date=1931-06-12 |access-date=2024-07-24 |via=NewspaperArchive}}
Personal life
In 1885 he married his second cousin Fannie Bloomfield,{{Cite web|first=Diana |last=Hallman |title= Fannie Bloomfield Zeissler 1863–1927 |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|date= |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/zeisler-fannie-bloomfield }} sister of philologist Maurice Bloomfield and the aunt of linguist Leonard Bloomfield. The Zeislers had three sons: Leonard Bloomfield Zeisler, Paul Bloomfield Zeisler, and Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler (married to Claire Zeisler). After Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler's death in 1927, Zeisler married Amelia Spellman in 1930. He died at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago on June 4, 1931.
Professional career
In 1886-1887, Zeisler was co-counsel for the defendants in the anarchist cases, popularly known as the Haymarket cases. Zeisler was a progressive and was a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League, the Municipal Voters' League, and the Civil Service Reform Association.
Zeisler was a writer and lectured on legal topics. Zeisler was a member of the Chicago Literary Club, The Little Room, Book and Play and the Cliff Dwellers Club.
Cases
- The Haymarket trials
- [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=207&invol=338 Heath & Milligan Mfg Co. v. Worst] 207 U.S. 338 (1907) regarding lead-based paint.
Publications
- [https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-the-american-college-of-surgeons_1910-05_10_5/page/538/mode/1up "The Legal and Moral Aspects of Abortion"], remarks at the 1910 meeting of the Chicago Gynecological Society, printed in the Journal of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vol. 10, No. 5, p. 539.
- [https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00zeis Reminiscences Of The Anarchist Case] (1927)
Notes
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Sigmund Zeisler}}
- [http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/zeisler/zeisler.html Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler Papers] Newberry Library Chicago
- [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=84&letter=Z Jewish Encyclopedia article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050115135722/http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/transcript/volumeo/051-100/O096-098.htm Illinois vs. August Spies et al. trial transcript no. 1] Affidavit of Sigmund Zeisler (October 1, 1886)
- Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfeld [https://web.archive.org/web/20081204173036/http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v183i0017_13.htm "The Haymarket Affair"] The Nation book review (1956)
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Category:People from Austrian Silesia
Category:19th-century Austrian Jews
Category:American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States