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| | HaDavar Online: |
 | | Joiachim Heinrich Biesenthal - or, to give him his birth-name, Raphael Hirsch - was born at Lobsens, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, on December 24th, 1804, of pious and strict Jewish parents. |
 | | His early education was chiefly confined to the study of the national law and tradition; and through much self-denial and sacrifice on the part of his parents, who intended him for the rabbinate, he was able to have lessons from the best teachers and most learned Talmudist scholars of the day. |
 | | Biesenthal retired from active service in 1881, and died at Berlin on June 25th, 1886, at the advanced age of 82 years. |
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