December 20. On this date in 1928, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, a Bahá'í scholar and translator, died. 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.

 

December 20. On this date in 1928, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, a Bahá'í scholar and translator, died. 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.