Moses Dobruška

Junius Frey ( * 1753 in Brno, † April 5, 1794 in Paris, born as Moses Dobruška or Dobruschka; knighted in Vienna at Franz Thomas Edler von Schoenfeld ) was a military supplier, Alchemist, Freemasons, the Jacobins and Frankist as the nephew and successor of Jacob Frank.

Life

The Born in Bohemia was a nephew of the Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank and was considered his successor in the leadership of Frankists. 1773 he joined from Judaism to Catholicism and took the name of Franz Thomas Schönfeld. In 1778 he was knighted in Vienna at Franz Thomas Edler von Schönfeld. Together with Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld, who was not converted, he joined the Order of the Knights and Brothers of St. John the Evangelist from Asia to Europe (including Asian brothers named ) in, a society of Freemasons, a lot about the 1783-1790 in Central Europe was spoken, because it was one of the first Masonic lodges, the Jews took up. 1792, immediately after the French Revolution, he traveled to Paris via Strasbourg, was a Jacobin and changed its name again to Junius Frey. He was arrested on the basis of denunciations and ended in 1794 together with Danton to the guillotine.