CERFBERR, MAXIMILIEN-CHARLES ALPHONSE
- CERFBERR, MAXIMILIEN-CHARLES ALPHONSE
- CERFBERR, MAXIMILIEN-CHARLES ALPHONSE (1817–1883), French
publicist. Cerfberr devoted much of his time to the study of
penitentiary conditions. His school for young convicts in Poissy was the
first of its kind. Cerfberr, who at different periods was a sailor and a
soldier in Algeria and the Levant, served for a short time as the
republic's representative (commissaire) in the department of
Saône-et-Loire after the 1848 revolution. His writings include La
vérité sur les prisons (1844) and Les juifs, leur histoire,
leurs moeurs.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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