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Louise Herschman Mannheimer (3 September 1845 - 1920) was a Czech-American writer, poet, school founder, and inventor.
Life
Herschman was born at Prague in 1845. In 1866, she went with her parents to New York City, where she married Sigmund Mannheimer. She wrote German and English poems, and articles and reviews for German and English periodicals. Zimmermann's "Deutscli in Amerika" (Chicago, 1894) contains some of her poems and a short biographical notice. Among her productions in English are "The Storm," a translation of one of Judah Halevi's poems, and "The Harvest," a prize poem (printed in "The American Jews' Annual," Cincinnati, 1897). In 1895, she published under the title of "The Jewish Woman" a translation of Nahida Remy's "Das Ji'idische Weib" (2d ed. 1897). She was the author of "The Maiden's Song", and a featured speaker at the Jewish Women’s Congress (1893) on the topic of "Jewish Women of Biblical and Mediaeval Times".
Mannheimer was the founder of the Cincinnati Jewish Industrial School for Boys and held patents for several devices. She was the inventor of the "Pureairin" Patent Ventilator. Mannheimer and her husband lived in Baltimore, New York City, St. Louis, and Rochester before settling in Cincinnati where he taught at the Hebrew Union College. They had two sons, and a daughter, the dramatist, Jennie Mannheimer (Jane Manner). She died in 1920.