Felix Perles

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Baruch Ascher Felix Perles (born March 18, 1874 in Munich , † October 15, 1933 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German rabbi, scholar and Zionist in Königsberg (Prussia).

Life

Felix Perles was one of two sons of Rabbi Joseph Perles , who introduced him to the Jewish religion . After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1892 , he studied Oriental Studies and Semitic Languages in Munich and at the Jewish-Theological Seminary in Breslau and after the death of his father again in Munich. After graduating as Dr. phil. In 1895 he continued his studies at the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna and got in touch with Theodor Herzl . In 1898 he passed the rabbi exam in Paris , in 1899 he became a teacher and deputy rabbi of the Jewish community in Königsberg. Perles became honorary professor at Albertus University and wrote 426 papers on all areas of the Hebrew and Aramaic language and text-critical studies on the Bible . Although Perles was a leading Zionist and well-known researcher, he turned down foreign appointments and stayed in Königsberg until his death.

Conservative in belief, he was open to cautious reforms. Among other things, he campaigned for the science of Judaism to be represented by its own chairs in the philosophical faculties of German universities. Some of his work was addressed to a broad Jewish and Christian public.

From his marriage to Hedwig Behr he had four sons.

Works

  • Analects for the textual criticism of the Old Testament, Munich 1895
  • On the Old Hebrew Strophic, Vienna 1896
  • Notes Critiques sur le Texte de l'Ecclésiastique, Paris 1897
  • What does Harnack teach us? Frankfurt am Main 1902
  • On the explanation of the Psalms of Solomon, Berlin 1902;
  • Collected essays on linguistics and legends by Max Grünbaum , 1901
  • Articles and reviews in Orientalist literary newspaper, Die Welt, Ost und West, among others
  • Bousset's religion of Judaism in the New Testament age critically examined. Peiser, Berlin 1903

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 618.
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1891/92
  3. ^ Felix Perles in the Jewish Encyclopedia, accessed on February 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Perles, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perles, Baruch Ascher Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi, scholar and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1933
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)