Haim prince

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Heinrich Ruben Chajim Fürst (born around 1580 ; died on March 28, 1653 in Altona ) was a Jewish merchant in Hamburg .

Life

In a Schleswig file there was a general letter of protection from Count Ernst zu Holstein-Schaumburg without a name from May 5, 1612 and an attached list of names listing Jews who were related to protection. According to research by Eduard Duckesz , who assumed that Fürst was a High German , i.e. Ashkenazi, Jew, there were eight Jews listed in Altona and nine in Hamburg, including Heinrich Ruben Chajim Fürst, who was referred to as Hayen or Haim Ruben. It is possible, but not proven, that these names are related to the letter of protection.

In 1649 the High German Jews were expelled from Hamburg and from 1650 it became more difficult for Portuguese Jews in Hamburg, and so he moved to Altona. According to an entry in the Altona land register of January 2, 1651, he owned a house on Breite Strasse . In her memoir, Glückel von Hameln wrote that he was the richest man in the community in Altona, with a fortune of 20,000 or 10,000 Reichstalers . Until his death he was the head of the community in Altona. He also died from a rampant illness that killed many parishioners. His grave and that of his wife are in the Jewish cemetery in Altona on Königstrasse . There is also the grave of his son Solomon, who died of the disease two days later. Other graves of family members are also in the cemetery. In addition, there were graves of the Fürst family in the now defunct Jewish cemetery Ottensen and Jewish cemetery am Grindel .

The writer and poet Dagmar Nick states in her book Captured Shadows - My Jewish Family Book that Heinrich Ruben Chajim was Prince a Portuguese or Sephardic Jew, and that his ancestors changed their name from Duques (Duke) to Prince . In the book Hidden Splendor: The Jewish Cemetery Hamburg-Altona - Ashkenazi Tombs , published by Michael Brocke and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute , it is assumed that he and his family were Ashkenazi Jews.

With his wife Sara (d. September 1, 1666) Fürst had four sons and two daughters. The sons were named Salomon (head of the poor and treasurer), Moses (died 1640), Nataniel, also Netaniel (head of the community) and Jeremias ( rabbi ). Moses Israel Fürst was a grandson of Chajim Fürst, the son of his son Moses and his wife Bella. Since several descendants of Chajim Fürst married members of the Goldschmidt family and fathered children, Glückel von Hameln also belongs to his extended family, who was married to a Goldschmidt.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: A confrontation between Glückel Hameln's memoirs and the old Hamburg grave books  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: The Memoirs of the Glückel von Hameln  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Chajim Fürst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gravestone of Chajim Fürst, digital edition - Jüdischer Friedhof Hamburg-Altona, Koenigstrasse, hha-3335 (Website of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute )
  • Gravestone of Sara Fürst, digital edition - Jüdischer Friedhof Hamburg-Altona, Königstrasse, hha-3333
  • Gravestone of Salomon Fürst, digital edition - Jüdischer Friedhof Hamburg-Altona, Königstrasse, hha-3334
  • Gravestones of the Fürst family and short biographies (Danish)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone , date of death
  2. ^ Eduard Duckesz: On the history and genealogy of the first families of the High German Israelite communities in Hamburg-Altona , Max Leßmann, Hamburg 1915, pp. 7 and 8
  3. ↑ Proof of Dagmar Nick : Captured Shadows - My Jewish Family Book , CH Beck , Munich 2015 (excerpt from Google Books )
  4. ↑ Page 30 , The Memoirs of the Glückel von Hameln (translated 1910), Wikimedia Commons
  5. ↑ Max Grunwald: Hamburg's German Jews up to the dissolution of the three communities in 1811 , A. Jansen, Hamburg 1904, p. 5
  6. ↑ page 23 , The Memoirs of the Glückel von Hameln (translated 1910), Wikimedia Commons
  7. ^ Max Grunwald: Hamburg's German Jews up to the dissolution of the three communities in 1811 , A. Jansen, Hamburg 1904, p. 316 u. 321
  8. ↑ Grindelfriedhof database , among others
  9. ^ Eduard Duckesz: On the history and genealogy of the first families of the High German Israelite communities in Hamburg-Altona , Max Leßmann, Hamburg 1915, p. 38
  10. ↑ Tombstone of Israel Fürst, digital edition - Jüdischer Friedhof Hamburg-Altona, Königstraße, hha-1278
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Chaim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prince, Heinrich Ruben Chajim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and community leader in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1580
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1653
Place of death Altona