Worms (family)

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[edit] Pedigree Worms

Frankfort and English family, tracing its descent from Aaron Worms of Frankfort-on-the-Main in the middle of the eighteenth century. Aaron's great-great-grandson was created hereditary baron of the Austrian empire April 23, 1871; and a later descendant, Baron Henry de Worms, was raised to the British peerage as Lord Pirbright (see pedigree (Jewish Encyclopedia) below).

• René Worms, French auditor of the council of state, sociologist, founder of the Institut International de Sociologie in 1893.
• Victor Worms, French lawyer
• Émile Worms, elder brother of Victor and father of René
• Maurice Benedict de Worms, English financier and agriculturist
• Gustave-Hippolyte Worms, French actor
• Asher Anshel Worms, German physician, mathematician, and Hebraist
• Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms, Talmudist and cabalist
• Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright, English statesman ([1])
• Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (Jacqueline de Romilly), French philosopher, see French article

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.