Abraham Merzbacher

Abraham Merzbacher (born September 19, 1812 in Baiersdorf ( Middle Franconia ), † June 4, 1885 in Munich ) was a German-Jewish coin dealer, banker and patron.

Merzbacher came from a rabbi family. In 1834 he graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . He then trained as a rabbi at the Talmud schools in Erlangen and Fürth and studied at the University of Munich . For a short time he worked as a rabbi in Ansbach. In 1840 he joined the Munich banking business JL Oberndörffer ( Joel Nathan Oberndörffer was his uncle) and headed the coin business. Merzbacher became a well-known numismatist .

In 1873 he retired from business life. From 1868 to 1897 he sponsored the sixteen-volume scientific edition of the Talmud ( Dikduke Soferim. Variae lectiones in Mischnam et in Talmud babylonicum ) of his friend Raphael Nathan Rabinowitz . In this context, his extensive collection of around 6,000 Jewish books, the Bibliotheca Merzbacheriana Monacensis , was created, which was sold to the Frankfurt City Library in 1903 .

His son Eugen Merzbacher took over the coin trade.

literature

Isaac Landman (Ed.): The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Tape. 7. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Co., New York NY 1948.

Web links

Abraham Merzbacher at alemannia-judaica.de

Individual evidence

^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. Volume 4: 1830/31 - 1858/59, register. Beck, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-406-10900-4 , p. 6.

personal data
SURNAME	Merzbacher, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Jewish banker, coin dealer and patron
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baiersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 4, 1885
Place of death	Munich

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. Volume 4: 1830/31 - 1858/59, register. Beck, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-406-10900-4 , p. 6.