Ascher Worms

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Ascher Anselm Worms (born 1695 ; died 1759 ) was a German mathematician, community doctor and scholar.

Life

Worms was one of the first Jewish medical students in Prussia . Like some of his contemporaries, he translated and disseminated the academic knowledge he had acquired in Hebrew . As early as 1721 he wrote a mathematical textbook with Mafte'ach ha'algebra hachadascha , the key to modern algebra .

Although Jews were banned from enrolling in other subjects, Worms described himself in his publications not only as a doctor or medic, but also as a “candidate for the rabbinate ” and “student of philosophy ”.

meaning

Worms wrote a three-part work on the tradition and genesis of the Bible text . The posthumously by his son Simeon Wolf Worms published Sejag latora , the fence around the Torah and the Holy Spirit , is next to Moses Mendelssohn's writings, the only one in the Jewish intellectual tradition and wrote in Hebrew critical opinion on Spinoza in the eighteenth century . In the Worms defended the "integrity of the traditional biblical text", which he traced back to the "Sinaitic period" in opposition to Elias Levitas Bachur .

Along with Salomon Hanau , Isaac Wetzler and Israel Samosc , whose Hebrew or Yiddish writings mainly moved in the Jewish “ internal discourse ” of the Enlightenment , Worms is the protagonist of the early Haskala .

literature

  • Mordechai Breuer , Michael Graetz:  Tradition and Enlightenment. 1600-1780 . In:  German-Jewish history in modern times . Volume 1. Beck, Munich 1996, p. 230f.
  • Jan-Hendrik Wulf:  Spinoza in the Jewish Enlightenment. Baruch Spinoza as a discursive border figure of the Jewish and the non-Jewish in the texts of the Haskala from Moses Mendelssohn to Salomon Rubin and in early Zionist references . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012,  ISBN 3-05-005220-1 , pp. 170–172.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mordechai Breuer, Michael Graetz: Tradition and Enlightenment. 1600-1780 . In: German-Jewish history in modern times . tape 1 . Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39702-6 , pp. 230 f .
  2. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Wulf: Spinoza in the Jewish Enlightenment. Baruch Spinoza as a discursive border figure of the Jewish and the non-Jewish in the texts of the Haskala from Moses Mendelssohn to Salomon Rubin and in early Zionist references . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-05-005220-1 , p. 170-172 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Schulte: On the debate about the beginnings of the Jewish Enlightenment . In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . tape 54 , no. 2 , 2002, p. 122-137 .
personal data
SURNAME Worms, Ascher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worms, Ascher Anselm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, community doctor and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1695
DATE OF DEATH 1759