April 12. On this date in 1873, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, later the first French Bahá’í, Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá'í scholar and translator, was born. The son of a prominent French Jewish family, he was converted to the Bahá'í Faith around 1900 by May Ellis Bolles (later Maxwell), the mother of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, who was resident in France.

April 12. On this date in 1873, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, later the first French Bahá’í, Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá'í scholar and translator, was born. The son of a prominent French Jewish family, he was converted to the Bahá'í Faith around 1900 by May Ellis Bolles (later Maxwell), the mother of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, who was resident in France.