Louis-Lazare Kahn ( French Louis-Lazare Kahn , November 13, 1895 , Versailles - January 27, 1967 , Paris ) - the first French Jewish admiral and leader of the Jewish community of France.
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Biography
Louis Kahn was born in Versailles in 1895.
In 1914 he graduated from the Polytechnic School [3] .
During the First World War - a soldier, then an officer in artillery . He was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Military Cross .
After the war, continued his education and received a degree in marine engineering.
Since 1920, he served as an engineer at a naval shipyard in Brest .
In 1925 he was appointed chief of the arsenal in Saigon .
In 1941, after the defeat of France , he fled from France through Spain to London , then to Algeria , where he served in the shipbuilding center of the naval forces of the Free France , was engaged in the revival of the French navy.
For two years (1959-1961) he was the head of the Naval Academy.
In 1963-1967 - Chairman of the Central Consistory of Israelis in France .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Léonore database - ministère de la Culture .
- ↑ Les marins polytechniciens par Christian Marbach . sabix.org. Date of appeal October 10, 2018.
Literature
- Pierre Kahn. Essai sur les méthodes de pensée et d'action de l'ingénieur général du Génie maritime Louis Kahn. - Paris: Académie de marine, 1973.
- Richard Ayoun. Un grand homme de la communauté juive de Versailles: l'ingénieur genéral du génie maritime Louis Kahn (1895-1967). - Versailles: Centenaire de la synagogue de Versailles, Septembre 1986. - P. 33-36.
- Susan Zuccotti. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews. - University of Nebraska Press, 1999. - ISBN 0-8032-9914-1 . - ISBN 978-0-8032-9914-6 .