Benjamin Höchstätter

Benjamin Höchstätter (born January 6, 1811 in Binswangen / Allgäu; died December 8, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German rabbi .

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Höchstätter was the son of the teacher David Höchstätter. He attended the Israelite school in his home community, then the grammar school in Augsburg with lessons from Rabbi Guggenheimer in the suburb of Kriegshaber. In 1829 he became a private teacher under the supervision of the local rabbi Isak Hirsch Gunzenhausen. He also attended lectures at the University of Munich . After taking a pedagogical examination in Augsburg, he became an Israelite religion teacher in Hürben , in 1833 a teacher and preacher in Heddernheim and Nassau , and on August 24, 1838 in Wiesbaden . On August 15, 1838, the government authorized him to perform wedding ceremonies. He founded a reading club and inspired the Regulation on the reorganization of the Israeli religious in Nassau on 3 February 1843. In 1843 he was in Jena with the work about the "messianic prophecies" in the Bible at all and in the Mosaic writings especially his doctorate , on the seventh In July 1844 he was provisionally appointed district rabbi of Wiesbaden. In October 1844 he became a teacher and rabbinate administrator in Bad Schwalbach (Langenschwalbach) and in 1848 district rabbi . In the same year he founded an Israelite teachers' college, which he directed until 1869. In 1851 the district rabbinate was relocated to Bad Ems . In 1868 he was a participant in the liberal Kassel rabbi assembly. In 1883 he retired to Frankfurt am Main.

In 1885 Max Kopfstein followed him to the office of district rabbi in Bad Ems.

Fonts

• Historical and moral essays for Israelite religious schools. School book, 1836.
• The Israelite confirmation act in Heddernheim. 1837.
• Qol B ° chi [Isa 68:19]. Funeral speech at the hour of the burial of the cover of Sr. Your Highness of the most blessed Duke Wilhelm zu Nassau. Wiesbaden, 1839.
• About the handicraft in civil matters. IA 1839, pp. 282f.
• Submission against the oath of Jews. IA 1841, pp. 153-156, 161f, 171f, 179f.
• Messages from Nassau. IA 1841, pp. 299f, 308f.
• About the “Messianic Prophecies” in the Bible in general and in the Mosaic Scriptures in particular. Dissertation. Jena, 1843.
• As an employee on the Orient (1841–1850), u. a. On the pronunciation and meaning of the Tetragrammaton. LDO 1846, p. 233ff.
• Qol Omer Q ° ra [Isa 4,6]. Hebrew reading primer edited according to the Lautir and writing reading method. School book, Wiesbaden, 1843.
• Sermon given for the dedication of the synagogue in Rüdesheim. Wiesbaden, 1843.
• About the relationship between the Israelite religion teachers. IVL 1851, pp. 252-262.
• Beth EL. The Israelite religious school. School book, 1853.
• The little biblically pure doctrine of faith and duty of Judaism against unbelief and superstition, for Israelite religion teachers and family fathers. School book, Bad Ems 1862.
  • to Religionsphilosophische explanations. 1864.
  • and Biblical and Talmudic narratives. 1865.
• About the appropriate division of the Sabbath Biblical lectures within a three-year cycle. 1871.
• For the reconciliation of the positive religions and their confessors. 1879.
• Two-part Israelite Sabbath and festival songs for smaller synagogue communities.
• Contributions to:
  • AZJ
  • Orient
  • Israelite folk teacher
  • Popular scientific monthly sheets
  • Framer's Jewish literary sheet

Documents

• StA Augsburg, Reg.11.869a, with requests of December 3, 1829 and March 3, 1830 for the lifting of the teaching ban imposed on him due to insufficient training.
• HHStA Wiesbaden, Dept. 211 No. 11479, personal file on a job in Heddernheim, also contains the examination by Rabbi Abraham Geiger , 1837.
• UA Jena, M 302, Bl. 205–207, 316–342, doctoral files with dissertation, publications, vita, letters of recommendation from IM Jost: he probably attended a seminar, but not a university.
• HHStA Wiesbaden, section 211, no. 7811, personnel file from Wiesbaden, contains u. a. Certificate of admission dated August 5, 1838: Instruction for the Israelite religion teacher in the Wiesbaden synagogue district. Rabbinical diplomas. On December 22nd, 1840, the rulers objected to the fact that “Herr Religious Instructor Höchstätter [...] demands an allowance for his spiritual functions, namely one fixed by himself , and that his former rabbi, Dr. Violinist, on an equal footing, calling himself religious leader . So far, in the absence of a rabbi, we have left him to preach ”.

literature

• About his teacher seminar, AZJ 1848, pp. 38–39, 241f.
• Prince: Bibliotheca. Volume I, p. 403.
• Synagogues inauguration in Diez an der Lahn and in Limburg, AZJ 1863, p. 804, 1868, p. 570.
• Obituary, AZJ 1888, p. 813.
• Entry HÖCHSTÄTTER, Benjamin, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 452.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Article 744.Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 452.
2. ↑ Abbreviations and acronyms, s. discussion