Abraham Wedell

Abraham Wedell (born June 4, 1844 in Posen , Province of Posen ; † September 2, 1891 in Düsseldorf , Rhine Province ) was a German rabbi .

Life

He was the youngest of four children of the orphanage inspector Manasse Moses Wedell in Posen and Miriam (Mirie) Vogelsdorff.

Wedell made his Abitur at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen and studied there in 1863 at the Rabbi Seminary . He then studied philosophy at the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1869. phil. received his doctorate .

In 1867 he took over the post of first teacher at the Religious Instruction I of the synagogue community in Breslau . At Easter 1870 he succeeded his father as inspector of the "Israelite Orphanage Institute" in Poznan and from 1871 to 1874 at the same time he was a religion teacher at the local secondary school .

From 1875 he was rabbi of the synagogue district of Düsseldorf . In 1882 he was given leave of absence for a long time, as he was sent from Berlin , Vienna , Paris , London and New York to the Russian border and into Russia at the request of the "United Comités" to organize the emigration of Russian Jews . On May 15, 1882, they were forbidden to purchase land or to stay outside of cities, thereby depriving them of personal freedom.

Works (selection)

• De emendationibus a Sopherim in libris sacris Veteris Testamenti propositis , dissertation, Lindner Verlag, Breslau 1869
• Family tree of Heinrich Heine , 1885
• Heinrich Heine's maternal family tree . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine , Volume 1 (1886), pp. 5 ff. ( Digitized version )
• History of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf . In: History of the City of Düsseldorf in twelve treatises , commemorative publication for the 600th anniversary of the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein , Düsseldorf 1888 ( digitized , including the history of Bongardstrasse, Kasernenstrasse and the old cemetery in Düsseldorf and the old cemeteries in Euskirchen , Golzheim , Gürzenich and Waldniel )

literature

• Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as teachers at the municipal high school in Düsseldorf in the 19th century , in: "Ostdeutsche Familienkunde", issue 4/2006, Verlag Degener & Co, Insingen 2006
• Report on the funeral services on the occasion of the funeral of Rabbi Dr. Abraham Wedell with the vita of Abraham Wedell (further details unknown, archived at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute )