A FAMOUS CORRESPONDENT.
The mystery concerning the ancestry of M. de Blowitz has been set at rest by Dr G. Deutsoh, of Cincinnati, who stale?) in the "American Hebrew" that the famous "Times'" Correspondent was born at Blowitz on October 20, 1827. He was the sou of Marcus and Kathorina Opper. "A brother and sister, Giistiu-v Ernest Qpper and Frail Porges, survive him. His father was a merchant, and for .a time was at the head of the local Jewish community. Adolf Opper, the son, attended the local Jewish school from the age of six years until his barmitzvah, and, for the two following years, the Bohemian normal school. While under the care of a private tutor, Pastor Haneplik, he became very lax in his religious observances, and, in fact, broke away altogether from his community. For a time he acted as a priest in France, and, later, became a journalist. In 1853 he returned to Blowitz, in order to be baptised, as such a process was a necessary preliminary to his marriage/
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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173A FAMOUS CORRESPONDENT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 2
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