Julius Sachs (July 6, 1849 – February 2, 1934) was an American educator, founder of the Sachs Collegiate Institute who belongs to the Goldman–Sachs family of bankers.
[2] He also founded the Sachs School for Girls, which he directed for 18 years.
He was elected president of the American Philological Association for 1890-91, the first Jew to serve in that post.
After he was appointed Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, the schools were discontinued.
At Sachs Collegiate Institute and Columbia University, Sachs tutored many students who later became distinguished figures in American life, such as Herbert H. Lehman, Irving Lehman, Walter Lippmann, and Hans Zinsser.