SHLOYME
MINTS (b. October 27, 1861)
He was born in Byezun (Bieżuń), Plotsk (Płock) district,
Poland. He was a great-grandson of the
Slonim rabbi, R. Shloyme Mints. Until
age ten he studied in religious elementary school, and in 1882 he graduated
from the Płock high school and went on to study medicine
at the Universities of Warsaw and Moscow.
He was a member of the association “Bene-tsiyon” (Children of
Zion). In 1887 he settled in Warsaw
where he practiced as a medical doctor.
Aside from articles in Hatsfira
(The siren) and Hayom (Today), which
he also wrote under the pen name of Dr. Kaspi, he published in book form: Hakalkala vekilkula (Corruption and its
damage) and Magefat haḥalira
(The epidemic of cholera). In Yiddish he
wrote on medicine and hygiene in Y. L. Perets’s Yudishe biblyotek (Yiddish library). He also published articles in Polish-Jewish
and German medical journals.
Source:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2.
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