Iuliu Barasch

Iuliu Barasch or Baraş (1815–1863) was a Galician-born Jewish physician and writer who made his career in Romania.

Biography
Born in Brody into a Hasidic family, he studied Philosophy at the University of Leipzig and took his doctorate at the University of Berlin. Barasch then moved to Wallachia (passing through Moldavia), being firstly, in 1842, a physician in Călăraşi, then in 1845, in Craiova and finally settling in Bucharest, starting teaching natural sciences at the Saint Sava Academy in 1852.

Beside working as a doctor, became a radical and ardent Romanian patriot. A friend of C.A. Rosetti and Ion Heliade Rădulescu, he was a professor at Bucharest's School of Medicine and Pharmacy.

He was a popularizer of medical science and of natural science in general, and the first Jewish Romanian journalist. In 1856–1859 he edited a journal Isus sau Natura (Jesus or Nature); in 1857, he started work editing Israelitul Român, a magazine that was to remain in print for almost 100 years. Barasch was also the founder of the first children's hospital in Bucharest.

He is memorialized in Bucharest's historically Jewish Văcăreşti neighborhood: the Baraşeum Theater, now home to the State Jewish Theater; the adjoining Baraşeum clinic; and the street that runs in front of the theater, formerly Ionescu de la Brad, now str. Dr. Iuliu Barasch.

Books

 * Minunile naturei (3 vol., 1852)
 * Mineralogia, după Belez (1854)
 * Asfixia sau leşinul (1854)
 * Botanica, după Belez (1856)
 * Higiena populară (1857)
 * Zoologia (1857)
 * Debora, melodrama (1858)
 * Cărticica altoiului (1859)
 * Manual de silvicultură (1861)

Journals

 * Isus sau Natura (1856-1859)
 * Natura (1861-1863)
 * Israelitul Român (1857-)