Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn

Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn (originally Aharon ben Wolff von Halle , Hebrew אהרן בן וואלף מהאללי * probably in Halle in 1756 ; † March 20, 1835 in Fürth ) was a German-Jewish author, educator and representative of the Jewish Enlightenment .

Life

Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn spent his childhood and youth in Fürth, his father Wolf Halle practiced there as a doctor at the Jewish hospital. In 1785 he went to Berlin, where he made the acquaintance of Moses Mendelssohn's circle of Enlightenmentists . In 1792 he was involved in founding the Society of Friends . In the same year he moved to Breslau to work as a teacher at the Wilhelmsschule there, a secular educational institution for Jewish boys, and was appointed director in 1804. From 1807 to 1813 he was the private tutor of the children of the banker Jacob Herz Beer and the Salonnière Amalie Beer , including the later composer Giacomo Meyerbeer , the later businessman Wilhelm Beer and the later writer Michael Beer . He spent his twilight years back in Fürth, financially secured by an annuity from the Beer family, where he died in 1835.

Halle-Wolfssohn's most important works include various articles in the Ha-Meassef magazine , of which he was editor for several years, the Hebrew textbook Abtalion (1790), the program publication Jeschurun ​​(1804), but also two comedies.

Works

• Abbotion. Berlin: Jewish free school 1790.
• Carelessness and bigotry. A family painting in three steps. Wroclaw 1796.
• Jeschurun, or impartial illumination of the reproaches recently made against Judaism. In letters. Wroclaw 1804.

literature

• Jutta Strauss: Aaron Halle Wolfssohn. A life in three languages. In: Anselm Gerhard (Ed.): Music and Aesthetics in the Berlin of Moses Mendelssohn. Tübingen 1999.
• Bernhard Klöckner: Halle-Wolfssohn, Aaron: Lightweight and bigotry, a family painting in three steps. In: Heide Hollmer, Albert Meier (Hrsg.): Dramenlexikon des 18. Century . Munich: C. H. Beck 2001. pp. 125-126.