Philip Johann Bleibtreu was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the middle of the seventeenth century, he died there in 1702. Born by the name Meïr, he converted to Christianity

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 from Judaism and took on Philip Johann Bleibtreu as his conversion name.

Bleibtreu published a German

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 work entitled Meïr Naor (The Enlightened Meïr) a play on his Jewish name, Meïr. In 1787 he gave an account of his conversion in Frankfort

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, notices on the Jewish festivals

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, and on some Jewish prayers. It is recorded that his last words were, "Ich bleibe treu" ("I remain faithful").

External links

• Philip Johann Bleibtreu from the Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Philip Johann Bleibtreu on Messianic Judaism Wiki