Abraham Vita de Cologna

Abraham Vita de Cologna (born September 25, 1755 in Mantua , † March 24, 1832 in Trieste ) was an Italian rabbi .

Life

His father Samuel was head of the Jews of Mantua from 1758 to 1788. Abraham received a Jewish education and became a rabbi of Mantua. As such, he became a member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy created by Napoleon I and in 1806 a member of the Notable Assembly in Paris . After the installation of the Grand Sanhédrin in 1807, he became its vice-president. In 1808 he became a member of the Consistoire central , of which he was president from 1812 to 1826. As such, he was the second Grand Rabbi of France after David Sinzheim . From 1808 to 1814 he was also rabbi of the Consistoire Turin . In 1826 he resigned his office and retired to Trieste.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Cologna, Abraham de . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 432 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905) . Berg International Éditeurs, Paris 2007

Web links

• Abraham Vita de Cologna in the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Yves Morat: Le grand rabbin Abraham Vita de Cologna (1754–1832)
• Abraham Vita de Cologna