Iuliu Barasch

Iuliu Barasch or Baraş (17 July 1815 – 31 March 1863) was a Galician-born Jewish physician, philosopher, pedagogue and promoter of Romanian culture and science who made his career in Romania.

[1] Yehuda ben Mordehai Barasch was born in Brody, Galicia (present-day western Ukraine,[1] then in the possession of the Austrian Empire), on 17 July 1815 into a Hasidic family.

He taught natural sciences at the Saint Sava Academy in 1852 and then was a professor at Bucharest's School of Medicine and Pharmacy.

The magazine published studies of astronomy, hypothetical articles about the plurality of worlds or about the most popular inventions of the time, such as aerostat and "submarine ships".

[citation needed] In 1857, together with Aaron Aser and A. Vainberg, Barasch edited Israelitul Român ("The Romanian Israelite"), the first Romanian-language newspaper of the Jewish community in Romania, that was to remain in print for almost 100 years.