Benedikt Zuckermann

Benedikt Zuckermann (also: Benedict Zuckermann ; born October 9, 1818 in Breslau ; died December 17, 1891 there ) was a German Jewish scholar, librarian and teacher of mathematics , natural sciences and astronomy .

Life

He received his doctorate from Kiel University and taught at the rabbinical seminary in Breslau and previously since 1854 at the Jewish-theological seminary in Breslau . From 1857 he also managed the seminar library there, whose holdings he documented in the 1870 catalog. Zuckermann published several authoritative writings on calendar issues , mathematics in the Talmud and coinage in the Talmud. His lifestyle is said to have been strictly orthodox .

Works (selection)

On the sabbath year cycle and jubilee period , Breslau 1857 (also English: London 1866)
About Talmudic Coins and Weights , Breslau 1862 ( digitized at archive.org )
Catalog of the seminar library , Breslau 1870 (2nd verb. Edition Berlin 1876)
The mathematical in the Talmud , Breslau 1878 ( digitized at archive.org)
Table for calculating the entry of the night , Breslau 1892 (from the estate, edited by M. Brann )
Instructions and tables for comparing Jewish and Christian times , Breslau 1893 (from the estate, edited by M. Brann)

literature

Adolf Brüll : Zuckermann, Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 425 f.
Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography , Volume VI, 1925 ff.
Aron Sandler: Article Zuckermann, Benedikt , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Vol. IV / 2, Berlin 1927.

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Tobias / Andreas Brämer: Art. ZUCKERMANN, BENEDICT , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Vol. 21, 678; Isidore Singer, Gotthard German : Art. ZUCKERMANN, BENEDICT , in: Jewish Encyclopedia , Vol. 12 (1906), 698 Online .

Web links

Literature by and about Benedikt Zuckermann in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Wikisource: Benedikt Zuckermann - Sources and full texts

Commons : Benedict Zuckermann - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Zuckermann, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zuckermann, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Jewish scholar and teacher of mathematics and astronomy
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1891
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Alexander Tobias / Andreas Brämer: Art. ZUCKERMANN, BENEDICT , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Vol. 21, 678; Isidore Singer, Gotthard German : Art. ZUCKERMANN, BENEDICT , in: Jewish Encyclopedia , Vol. 12 (1906), 698 Online .