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Judaica / Zionisim - August Abrahamson medal - In memoriam seminar 2 artis fabrilis
Judaica / Zionisim – August Abrahamson medal – In memoriam seminar 2 artis fabrilis
Swedish Jewish philanthropist, and founder of the Sloid Seminary of Nääs, near Göteborg; born Dec. 29, 1817, at Karlskrona, Sweden, where his parents, originally from Germany, had settled; died May 6, 1898, at Nääs. August in his fourteenth year was apprenticed to a hardware merchant in Göteborg, and eventually he became founder and owner of one of the most extensive businesses in Sweden.