Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim

Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim (20 July 1817, Epinal16 December 1883, Paris) was a French journalist, writer and governmental official.

After traveling extensively in Algeria and the East, Cerfberr was attached in 1839 to the penitentiary administration in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1848 he held for a short time the position of commissary of the Republic in the Department of Saône-et-Loire.

Among Cerfberr's numerous writings the most noteworthy are:

Cerfberr wrote on several other subjects of less importance; and he translated several works from German into French.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer and Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Cerfberr, Maximilien Charles Alphonse, of Medelsheim". Jewish Encyclopedia. 

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