Alexander Sussmann Adler
Alexander Sussmann Adler (born March 26, 1816 in Schwebheim ; died December 16, 1869 in Lübeck ) was a German rabbi and member of the citizenship of Lübeck.
Life
Alexander Sussmann Adler was a son of the merchant Samson Adler and his wife Miriam, nee. Frankel. He attended school in Schwebheim, received private Talmud lessons in Neuhaus near Bad Kissingen and then attended the Ludovicianum high school in Schweinfurt , which he left in 1839 with the Abitur. From October 1839 he studied philology and Jewish theology at the University of Würzburg . At the same time he was tutor at the yeshiva of Seligmann Bär Bamberger and from 1842 tutor of Samuel Frank. In 1848 he passed the state examination in Würzburg with distinction and received his rabbinical diplomas from Rabbi Abrahman Wechsler in Schwabach and Hayum Schwarz in Hürben .
Adler came to northern Germany, first to Altona, and in 1849 to the Jewish community in Lübeck-Moisling as a preacher and assistant to Rabbi Ephraim Fischel Joel (1795-1851), who had been in office in Moisling since 1825. In 1851 he officially became rabbi of the community, which was able to move to downtown Lübeck in 1858. In 1855 he refused an appointment as a regional rabbi in Schwerin . In 1864 he was involved in the Vienna Kompert Trial and represented the side of Hungarian Orthodoxy.
From 1855 until his death he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship.
In 1850 he married Chana (Hannchen) Fischl Joel (1820–1889), the daughter of Ephraim Joels. The couple's children included Ephraim Adler and Esther Carlebach .
The Adler couple were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Moisling , where their grave has been preserved.
literature
- Carsten Wilke (arr.), Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): Rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. (Biographical handbook of the rabbis). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 9783110232325 ; P. 138 (No. 0027).
Web links
- Collection Dr. Ephraim and Agathe Adler-Joel (PDF, German), Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP) with materials by and about Alexander Sussmann Adler
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adler, Alexander Sussmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi and member of the citizenship in Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Floating home |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1869 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |