Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
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Country
FR
Name of institution (English)
Bordeaux Municipal Archives
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
fra
Contact information: postal address
Parvis des Archives, 33100, Bordeaux
Contact information: phone number
0033 (0)556102055
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Contact information: email
archives@bordeaux-metropole.fr
Reference number
Bordeaux 79 S
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
Title (official language of the state)
Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
Language of title
fra
Creator / accumulator
Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
Date(s)
1861/1938
Language(s)
por
Extent
107 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This fonds comprises documentation collected by Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt (1861-1938) as part of his scholarly work on local history, genealogy and the history of Judaism in France. For this reason, Béthencourt's manuscript notes contain relevant information on Sephardic families living in Bordeaux and Amsterdam. The fonds includes annotations, abstracts and transcriptions of primary sources.
Archival history
The fonds was delivered to the Archives Bordeaux Métropole in 1938.
Administrative / Biographical history
Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt was born in Nantes on December 15, 1861. He was the librarian of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Lisbon Academy of Sciences) before moving to Bordeaux, where he became interested in local history. He was a great scholar, bibliophile, genealogist, and Hebraist, whose research work on the Jewish community of Bordeaux was published in the Revue historique de Bordeaux and the Revue des études juives. He died in Bordeaux on December 7, 1938.
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Author of the description
Kevin Soares, 2023
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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| Archives Bordeaux Métropole | Collections (official language of the state) |