Baruch Placzek

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Baruch Jakob Placzek (born as Bernhard Placzek October 4, 1834 in Mährisch Weißkirchen , Austrian Empire ; died September 17, 1922 in Brno ) was a Czech rabbi .

Life

Bernhard Placzek's father Abraham Placzek (1799–1884) was a rabbi and taught his son the Talmud . Baruch Placzek attended grammar schools in Mikulov and Brno . He studied in Vienna and Leipzig and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1856 with Wilhelm Wachsmuth with a dissertation in cultural history. He then taught at Jewish community schools in Germany and founded a community school in Hamburg . In 1861 he was called to Brno as a reform-oriented rabbi, where he initially worked as his father's assistant. In 1884 he became a state rabbiordered from Moravia. He made sure that only trained rabbis were included in the job advertisements. He promoted the establishment of the Israelite Theological Institute in Vienna and became its curator.

Placzek wrote sermons and speeches. He was interested in the scientific questions of the time and corresponded with Charles Darwin , whose theory of evolution he disseminated. He was a close friend of Gregor Mendel and gave scientific lectures at the Brno Natural Research Association. His contributions have also appeared in the popular science magazine Kosmos . He published short stories and poems under the pseudonym Benno Planek.

Placzek was made a Knight of the Franz Joseph Order .

Baruch Placzek was married to a daughter of the Brno factory owner Jacob Löw-Beer, the physicist George Placzek (1905–1955) was a grandson, and Rabbi Leo Baeck was a nephew.

Works (selection)

  • Benno Planek: In the Eruw: Poems . Herzfeld & Bauer, Vienna 1867.
  • The monkeys among the Hebrews and other ancient peoples . E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1882.
  • The birdsong according to its tendency and development . 1884
  • Weasel and Cat: A Contribution to the History of Domestic Animals . Burkart, Brno 1888 (negotiations of the natural research association in Brno).
  • Benno Planek: The takif. Novella. Brandeis, 1895,
  • Bird protection or insect repellent . Negotiations of the natural research association in Brno, 1897
  • Animal pathogens of the " Spanish flu ". A new attempt to explain . Gerolds, Vienna 1919.

literature

  • Renate Heuer : Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 18, De Gruyter, Munich 2010, pp. 77–81.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin: 18th to 20th century . Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1043.
  • Placzek, Bernhard , in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (eds.), Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis, Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871 . Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 711f.
  • Baruch Placzek , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, p. 1005.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are contradicting information on the date of birth, here according to the Rabbi Manual
  2. ↑ Placzek, Abraham , in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.), Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis, Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871 . Munich: Saur, 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 710f.
  3. ↑ Cultural history of the Mexican indigenous peoples, treated generally comparatively . Dissertation Leipzig.
personal data
SURNAME Placzek, Baruch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Placzek, Baruch Jakob (full name); Placzek, Bernhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Mährisch Weißkirchen , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1922
Place of death Brno