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About Frédéric Cerfberr
- Frédéric Cerfberr (27 October 1786, in Strasburg – 18 September 1842, at sea on a voyage from New York City to France) was a French diplomat and a Jew. Being fond of travel and foreign languages, he obtained (in 1809), under Napoleon, the appointment as secretary of the imperial commissariat in the Ionian Islands.
- Later he successively represented France as consul at New York (1822), New Orleans, Haiti (1827-32), and again in Haiti as consul-general, distinguishing himself in all three offices.
- In 1826, when the French government could find no representative for Santo Domingo, on account of an outbreak there of yellow fever, Cerfberr freely offered his services.
- On learning the miserable state to which the inhabitants of Les Cayes were reduced in consequence of an earthquake, Cerfberr dispatched at his own expense a ship loaded with food and other needful articles. Cerfberr fell a victim to his devotion to duty.
- The destructive earthquake at Haiti on 7 May 1842 killed his only daughter, and injured him so severely that he died on his voyage home.
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