Elias Präger

Elias Hirsch Präger (February 1767 in Jungholtz , Alsace , France - 10 May 1847 in Bruchsal ) was a rabbi in Bruchsal .

family

Elias Präger (also written Preger) was the son of the rabbi Moses Präger.

He was married to Gittel (Auguste), née Löwenstein. This marriage resulted in two sons: Liebel (born on August 1, 1812 in Altdorf ) and Moses (born on January 1, 1817 in Altdorf). In his second marriage he was married to Judith Singer (1786-1850).

Life

Elias Präger went to the yeshiva of Raphael Ris in Hagenthal-le-Bas at the age of 16 and to Michel Scheuer in Mannheim at the age of 19 . At the same time he was a private student of Abraham Naun there. He was initially a private tutor in Frankfurt am Main . After that he settled as a teacher and businessman in Altdorf and was from 1819 rabbinate locum tenens in Buhl . In 1822 he became rabbi in Bruchsal and with the establishment of the district rabbinate in 1827 district rabbi there. He ran a Talmud school. His son, Moses Präger, succeeded him as district rabbi in Bruchsal after his death. Elias Präger died in 1847 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Obergrombach .

Präger was one of the moderate reformers.

literature

• Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal. Publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal, vol. 23, regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 ), pp. 88-89 and 429.
• Entry PRÄGER, Elias Hirsch 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. KG Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 723f.
• Benjamin Willstätter: Speech at the grave of the blessed district rabbi Elias Präger von Bruchsal given on May 12, 1847 at the Israelite cemetery in Obergrombach. A. Bielefeld bookstore, Karlsruhe 1847.