 Francis de Sales Lewental

Francis de Sales Lewental was a Polish Jewish publisher; born at Włocławek, Congress Poland, 1839; died at Wiesbaden on 24 September 1902.In 1862 Lewental, the son of poor Jewish parents, bought with his accumulated savings the press of the Warsaw publisher (died 1859), and began his career with the "Kalendarz Ludowy", a popular almanac, which he continued until 1866.