Jewish author, born at Wilna, Lithuania, on the 6th of November 1828. After receiving at the Königsberg University his Ph.D. in 1846, he became one of the writers for the Revue des Deux Mondes in Paris. In 1869 Count von Beust, Chancellor of Austria, called him to a position in the Council of State, which he resigned in 1870 on account of ill health. His most noted work is Les Deux Chanceliers, a bitter attack upon Bismarck and Gortschakoff, which created a great sensation. He also published La Poésie Polonaise au XIXe Siècle (1862); Correspondence of the Polish Poet, Mickiewicz (1861); and Causeries Florentines (1880), crowned by the French Academy. He was elected a corresponding member of the French Institute.
