Hannover, Martin Ad. Adolph Hannovers Fædrene og Mødrene Slægt, Udgivet i Anledning af Hundredaarsdagen. 1814 - 24 November - 1914 [Adoplh Hannover’s Father’s and Mother’s Lineage. Published for the Occasion of the Centenary. 1814 - 24. November - 1914 ]

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Hannover, Martin Ad. Adolph Hannovers Fædrene og Mødrene Slægt, Udgivet i Anledning af Hundredaarsdagen. 1814 - 24 November - 1914 [Adoplh Hannover’s Father’s and Mother’s Lineage. Published for the Occasion of the Centenary. 1814 - 24. November - 1914 ]

FIRST EDITION. Danish text. Several plates, including frontispiece portrait of Adolph Hannover. Numerous facsimiles in German, Hebrew and Judeo-German pp. 207. Original boards. Sm. folio Freimann, p. 198

Copenhagen: J. Jørgensen & Co. 1914

Est: $200 - $300
Adolph Hannover (1814-1894) was a Danish-Jewish scientist and physician who made significant contributions to the fields of histology and microscopy. His forebears, surnamed Hannover, Hirsch and Goldschmidt, originated for the most part in Altona and Hamburg, Germany. See EJ, Vol. VII, col. 1273