“I have before me a book in German, 269 pages long, entitled Thoughts on the Emancipation of Man, and written by a young Polish Jew educated at the University of Königsberg. And well, the author of this book, M. Benjamin Bary, whom one could not accuse of partiality,…”
–-La revue indépendante, founded by Georges Sand, 1844, p. 499 (the article goes through p. 502).
The whole thing is very interesting, since Benjamin Bary was Latvian, not Polish. It had been my understanding that it was Talmudic school he left at Königsberg, going to Berlin to study with the Humboldts, and following Alexander von Humboldt to Paris. But in family legend there is something about having been in Poland, and of course Poland was once larger than it is.
Anyway, his work was reviewed there and also in a German journal, Der Orient, also in 1844. There I must read pp. 50-51, if I can identify these.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 