David Julius Heilbronn

David Julius Heilbronn (born August 28, 1797 in Oerlinghausen , † September 9, 1870 in Minden ) was a German doctor.

Life

David Julius Heilbronn was born as the son of the protective Jew and horse dealer Hirsch Isaac Heilbron or Heilbrun. He attended the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld and studied medicine in Berlin as a favorite pupil of Prof. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland with PhD Dr. med. on November 12, 1820 and subsequent practical courses.

During this time he was a member of an existing since 1816 Circle of Jewish scientists and students who are emancipation and assimilation of Jews strove and 1821 " Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews was" with opening for foreign people. Dr. Heilbronn with membership number 10 was elected vice-secretary of the association on March 11, 1821.

In 1821, Dr. Heilbronn Berlin , after a short stay in Bielefeld to stay with his older brother, the horse dealer Jacob Heilbronn (* 1779 in Oerlinghausen), and his wife Johanna geb. Levison opened a practice in Minden in 1822 and married Regine Cahen. Eight girls and one boy who died as an infant were born in 1827–1847.

In the spirit of the Association for Culture and Science of the Jews , Dr. Heilbronn on December 16, 1821 in the Mindener Sonntagsblatt a call for the establishment of an association for the promotion of Judaism in general and the establishment of new, reform-open Jewish schools in particular, which led to success despite the criticism of conservative Judaism, with the support of Dr. Haindorfs 1824/25 an "Association for the promotion of craftsmen among the Jews in connection with a school" was founded with the approval of the government in Münster . In fact, a corresponding school could be founded in Münster , which became the Marks-Haindorf Foundation and for which the Minden Association has always been a support.

In 1826 Dr. Heilbronn member and secretary of the "Westphalian Society for Patriotic Culture", in which Minden dignitaries were represented. In 1845 he was elected to the Minden city council in the second ballot, from which he resigned in 1848 without a new candidate. In the spring of the revolutionary year 1848 he took over the editing of the new liberal newspaper "Porta Westfalica - A sheet for truth, law and common good", which reported on democratic initiatives, the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Prussian National Assembly in Berlin and organ of the Democratic-Constitutional People's Association in Minden was. After the failure of the revolution and the uprisings in southern Germany, the publisher F. Essmann supported republican tendencies of this newspaper, whereupon Dr. Heilbronn resigned from his position as editor in 1849 due to his democratic-constitutional standpoint. The newspaper soon had to stop its publication due to a lack of readers.

In September 1850, the Jewish community in Minden split up into two different communities due to the tensions between conservatives and representatives of Reform Judaism, as in many other places during this time. Dr. Heilbronn now acted as a mediator and was able to announce on July 1, 1851 that the opposing parties had reunited to form a single community.

In 1862 Dr. Heilbronn appointed to the medical council. His wife died on December 18, 1881. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hausberge .

literature

• Karl Soll: Dr. med. Julius Heilbronn. Life picture of a doctor from Minden (born 1797 in Oerlinghausen, died 1870 in Minden). Messages of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 64 (1992), pp. 115-130.