Fabian Feilchenfeld

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fabian Gabriel Feilchenfeld (* 18th June 1827 in Schlichting Home ( Posen ); † 16th February 1910 in Schwerin ) was a German rabbi , who until his death in 1877 rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was.

Life

Fabian Feilchenfeld was the son of a Jewish Silesian thief and cantor . After attending a Talmud school in Rawitsch and studying in Dresden , here with Zacharias Frankel and his brother-in-law Wolf Landau . From April 17, 1850 to March 1854, he studied history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the same time with Michael Sachs . During his studies he already worked as a teacher at the Jewish religious school in Berlin and was employed there in April 1854 as a religion teacher. In April 1856 his doctorate he in Hall to Dr. phil. After he worked as a teacher at the religious school in Dresden from February 1857 to 1858, he followed the call in 1858 as a religious teacher and rabbi to Culm on the Vistula . His sons Leopold (* 1861), Wolf (* 1864) and Heinrich (* 1869) were born here. In May 1876 he was appointed regional rabbi for Mecklenburg in Schwerin. He was a member of the Upper Council of the Israelite State Congregation. From 1900 he also headed a teacher training college for Sabbath school teachers. Fabian Feilchenfeld did an extraordinary job for the Jewish community in Mecklenburg, for which Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. Awarded him the Gold Medal of Merit for Art and Science in 1907 on the occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary as the only rabbi in the history of the country. Feilchenfeld was the author of several religious textbooks, of which his Systematic Textbook of the Israelite Religion was also translated into English. Feilchenfeld retired in February 1909.

In 1859 Feilchenfeld married his first wife, Minna Cohn, with whom he had three children. She died in 1866.

Fabian Feilchenfeld was married to Rosalie Lasker (1838-1919), a sister of the Prussian politician and lawyer Eduard Lasker , for the second time . The marriage produced five sons and two daughters. His sons-in-law were the rabbis Adolf Blumenthal (1863–1903) in Ratibor and Samuel Freund (1868–1939) in Hanover .

Fabian Feilchenfeld was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Schwerin .

Works

  • De Backonis Lockiique doctrinarum cohaerentia et necessitudine. Dissertation, Halle 1856.
  • Sermon held at the farewell party of the lawyer Dr. jur. L. Marcus in the synagogue in Schwerin. Bützow 1876.
  • Instructions for religious instruction. 1881.
  • Funeral speech in memory of our most blessed Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II Schwerin in 1883.
  • Brief textbook of the Jewish religion for school and home. 4th edition: Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1913.

literature

  • Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , BOD, 2009, ISBN 3837094979 (digitized version )
  • Entry FEILCHENFELD, Gabriel Fabian, 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. 299 f.
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 174.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.sztetl.org.pl accessed on March 18, 2010
  2. ↑ Traces of Jewish life in Mecklenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB)
  3. ^ Obituary for F. Feilchenfeld at sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de, viewed on December 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Feilchenfeld, Fabian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feilchenfeld, Fabian Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlichtingsheim
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1910
Place of death Schwerin