Julius Elias
Julius Elias was a German art historian, literary historian and translator.
He was born in Hoya and died in Berlin. his parents were Louis Juda Elias and Helene Elias. He was a lecturer in art history at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, and also an art collector. As an art critic he favored Impressionism. In literature, he is among other known as a co-publisher of German translations of Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Elias married Juliane Levy, a successful author, in 1888.
With his wife Julie, Elias had a son, Ludwig Elias, who was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.