Jean Stern (19 February 1875 – 15 December 1962) was a French Olympic champion épée fencer.[3]
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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||
| Born | 19 February 1875 Paris, France | |||||||||||||
| Died | 15 December 1962 (aged 87) Paris, France[1] | |||||||||||||
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Personal lifeEdit
Stern was Jewish. He was born in Paris, the son of French banker Louis Stern (1844-1900) and Claude Lambert.[4][5][6][1][7][8] His father was the son of Antoine Jacob Stern, also well known in banking circles,[1] and a scion of the wealthy Stern family of the AJ Stern & Co. banking house. His mother was the daughter of banker Léon Lambert and Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild, daughter of Gustave de Rothschild from the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Jean Stern was also the cousin of composer Fernand Halphen, and nephew of actress Sophie Croizette. In 1904 Stern married Claude Lambert, daughter of Baron Léon Lambert and Baroness Zoe Lucie de Rothschild.[1]
Olympic fencing careerEdit
Stern competed with the French épée team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London at 33 years of age, fencing in their competition against Denmark.[1] The team won the gold medal.[1] Stern also competed in the individual épée event, finishing in 12th place.[2][1]
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b c d e f g Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jean Stern". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 13 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Jean STERN". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "Jean Stern". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ Postal, Bernard; Silver, Jesse; Silver, Roy (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports.
- ^ "Jewish Olympic Medalists (1896–Present) – Jewish Virtual Library".
- ^ "Jews in the Olympics". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- ^ Everyman's Judaica: An Encyclopedic Dictionary
- ^ Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports - Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver
External linksEdit
- Jean Stern at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
- Jews in Sports bio