Abraham Tictin

August Henschel: Portrait of Rabbi Abraham Ticktin, chief rabbi in Breslau

Abraham Tiktin (full name Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin , born on December 24, 1764 in Schwersenz ; died on December 27, 1820 in Breslau ) was a Talmudist and since 1816 chief rabbi in Breslau.

Tiktin was appointed rabbi in Glogau in 1811 . On September 5, 1816, King Friedrich Wilhelm III appointed. him by rescript to the state rabbi for the province of Silesia based in Wroclaw. Tiktin held this position until his death.

Tiktin was the author of several books, only one of which, however , appeared in print, entitled Petaḥ ha-Bayit (1820), which was a treatise on Shulchan Aruch .

Literature / sources (selection)

• Jewish Lexicon . Vol. IV./2. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1930, Sp. 949–951 ( online ; PDF; 171 MB).
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 808.
• Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X .

Web links

Commons : Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Isidore Singer, Schulim Ochser, M. Seligsohn:  Tiktin. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 12, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, pp.  145-146 .