Elise Herz, née von Lämel (1788–1868) was a Prague-born Austrian philanthropist.
[1] Her father was the merchant Simon von Lämel.
[2] Her home in Prague was an intellectual center; however, upon her husband's death in 1850, she moved to Vienna.
[1] This entry from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia about a "children's asylum" refers to the school she founded in her father's memory[2] in the Zikhron Moshe neighbourhood of the city, better known as the Simon von Lämel School or simply Lämel School.
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