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 went to considerable lengths to oppose the prevalent antisemitic policies of the Tsarist government in Congress Poland, and was sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist movement.
- Occupation
- diplomat, entrepreneur, banker, economist
- Citizenship
- Poland, Russian Empire
- Born
- June 24, 1836
- Died
- January 7, 1902
