Bernard Bloch

The greater part of his life was devoted to our science, and his public life was a teaching scholar's life, one for which this journal as edited by him is the best of monuments.To speak of the shape of his public life is only the easier part of my task.To speak of what it was so firmly based upon, I must claim the privileges of a friend and give an account of the person that Bernard Bloch was.The appropriate beginning is with his father's father.'Theodor Bloch came from Austrian Bohemia in 1869 to St. Louis, Missouri, a city prominent among those which were attracting people of German speech from Europe at the time.In his household, as in so many other Jewish business families, there was fostered a high regard for humanity, for the arts, and for learning.His son Albert (1882-1960), painter, art teacher, and litterateur, was in Who's who through more editions than the grandson Bernard; and Bernard Bloch was more than dutifully proud of that.sAlbert Bloch studied painting in New York City, then took his wife and first son to Munich in 1909, where they remained until shortly after the first world war."