Leopold Porges
Edler von Portheim
(1785-1869)
Other names: Juda Löw Porges[C90]
Titles and Honours
Ennobled, 1841 (Holy Roman Empire)[F6S]
Knight of the Order of Franz Joseph, 1866 (Austria)[F6S]
Main Events
Director of the Jewish community in Prague.[I7I]
Established a cotton-printing factory with his brother Moses in Smichow
which was to develop into one of the largest of such enterprises in the
Habsburg territory, and in 1840, they founded a porcelain factory in Chodau
which Leopold's family took over. Moses' family continued with the textile
business.[F6S]
Place of birth and death: Prague[L49]
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