Elkan Henle
Elkan Henle (also Elkav Henle; born December 7, 1761 in Fürth ; † October 14, 1833 ibid) was a German merchant who emerged as a pioneer for the emancipation of Bavarian Jews .
Life
His father was Jakob Buttenwies (en) Henle (d. 1802), who ran a jewelery trade together with his brother Wolf and thus had some prosperity; his mother was a sister of Rabbi David Dispeck. Henle's first marriage was the daughter of Rabbi Löb Berlin; the marriage resulted in four children.
After the death of his first wife in 1788, he married the daughter of Moses Fränkel from Dessau in 1789 . Three of their children have passed childhood, including their son Jakob Henle (1803–1875), who later became the editor of the correspondent for and for southern Germany .
In 1803 Henle first published the work On the Improvement of Judaism , without giving his name , in 1808 in the magazine Sulamith. Journal for the Advancement of Culture and Humanity Among the Jewish Nation was reprinted. He dedicated the 1811 paper on the constitution of the Jews in the Kingdom of Bavaria and its improvement for the benefit of the state to Maximilian von Montgelas . He demands the spread of cultural education, " enlightenment " and emancipation among the Jews and contradicts theses that Judaism would not be ready for this. Henle devoted the rest of his life to working for legal equality for Jews. In 1827 he published The Voice of Truth in relation to the cult of the Israelites and the restructuring that was initiated by means of religious doctrine, consistory and high Talmud school ; the work appeared in three parts. It criticizes Alexander Behr's reform catechism and the formation of a secular consistory in Bavaria. Henle advocates the conversion of the traditional Fürth yeshiva , "after the yeshivot in Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim, the most famous and largest institution in the German states" into a reformed, "state-supervised teacher and rabinner training institute," in 1826 In 1827, according to Henles, "at least 150 people" studied.
Henle died in 1833; his widow returned to Dessau. Henle was an uncle of the physician Jakob Henle .
Works (selection)
- On the improvement of Judaism , [indication of an invented printing location] "Offenbach am Main" [actually published by Korn in Fürth] 1803. (Reprinted in Sulamith , ed. David ben Mose Fränkel , 1808, p. 361ff) ( digital copy from Compact Memory )
- On the Constitution of the Jews in the Kingdom of Bavaria and its improvement for the benefit of the state , Munich 1811.
- The voice of truth , 3 vols., Fürth 1827.
literature
- Adolf Eckstein: The struggle of the Jews for their emancipation in Bavaria , G. Rosenberg, Fürth i. B. 1905, especially p. 15ff. limited preview in Google Book Search - USA
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume III, p. 51 f.
- Jewish Lexicon , Vol. II, Sp. 1540
- (Red. :) Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2nd A., Vol. 8, p. 807.
- Manfred Treml / Wolf Weygand (eds.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria , Munich 1988, therein a. a. M. Treml: Rabbi Elkan Henle (1761-1833) , a champion for the emancipation of the Jews, pp. 59–62.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elkan Henle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Babinger: Elkan Henle, 1761 - 1833 In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism 3 (1918), pp. 223–230 ( online )
- Art. Elkan Henle , in: Fürth Wiki.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See e.g. B. Henle: Voice of Truth, lc, p. 15ff.
- ↑ Andreas Gotzmann: Eigenheit und Einheit , Modernization Discourses of German Jewry during the Emancipation Period, Studies in European Judaism 2, Brill, Leiden 2002, p. 46f.
- ↑ Babinger 1918, p. 227.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henle, Elkan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1833 |
| Place of death | Fuerth |