Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (died 1902)

Jan Gotlib Bloch

Polish banker (1836–1902)

Jan Gotlib "Bogumił" Bloch was a Polish banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and a convert to Calvinism, he spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent antisemitic policies of the Tsarist…