Gustav Philippson

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Gustav Philippson (born February 17, 1816 in Dessau , Anhalt-Dessau ; died January 11, 1880 in Berlin ) was a German teacher, writer, rabbi and member of parliament.

Life

Gustav Philippson came from a Jewish family. He was the son of the teacher at the Jewish free school in Dessau and later merchant Simon Philippson (1778-1848) and cousin of the rabbi Ludwig Philippson .

Philippson enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in October 1836 and studied there until 1840. He also received Talmud lessons from Rabbi Öttinger. In January 1841 he re-enrolled at the Berlin University and received his doctorate. phil. He then did talmudic studies in Prague with Solomon Juda Rapoport .

From 1842 he taught religion and Jewish history at the Franz School for Hebrew and German Language (Herzogliche Franzschule) in Dessau, which was reformed into a "commercial school" in 1848 based on his ideas. At the same time worked as a preacher for the Jewish community in Dessau. In the spring of 1849 Philippson was elected as a member of the state parliament for the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau . He was a member of the state parliament on the side of the democrats until the state parliament was dissolved on July 21, 1851. He was a co-founder of the Anhalt Craftsmen's and Journeyman's Association. Because of his democratic activities, he suffered years of observation, deferral and wage cuts in the reaction era.

In 1869 he became a rabbi in Berlin.

In 1868 he took part in the Kassel rabbinical assembly.

Fonts

  • The destruction of the first temple. An oratorio in three sections, appendix to the writing by MJ Ernst, time voices of the triad to the guardians of Zion in Judaism. 1841.
  • Does pulpit eloquence have the irony of banishing? A homiletic question. In: Literaturblatt des Orient. Leipzig 1841, pp. 77-80.
  • Marital love among the ancient Hebrews. In: Literaturblatt des Orient. Leipzig 1841, pp. 670-672, 685-688.
  • The golem and the adulteress. A Prague legend. Poem, 1841. In: Sulamith: a magazine for the promotion of culture and humanity among the Israelites. Ed. by David Fränkel , eighth year, Dessau 1843, issue 2, pp. 254–257 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
  • Bruno Bauer's Jewish question, examined in more detail by Dr. Gustav Philippson. 1843.
  • History of the herzogl. Franzschule in Dessau from its establishment in 1799 to its dissolution in 1869. 1869.
  • Shoshanim. A look into the past. Pen-and-ink drawings from the life of the Jewish people. 1871.

literature

  • General newspaper of Judaism. An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson, XII. Year, No. 28, Leipzig 1848, p. 403 f. ( Digital version with compact memory ) No. 34 p. 487 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • General newspaper of Judaism. XXII. Year, No. 17, Leipzig 1858, p. 231 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
  • Moritz Steinschneider : Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, jussu curatorum digessit et notis instruxit. Volume II: Auctores. Berlin 1852–1861, Sp. 2099 ( digitized in the Freimann Collection ).
  • Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Published by M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1896, p. 893 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
  • General newspaper of Judaism. 65th year, No. 17, Leipzig 1901, p. 203 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
  • Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute. 7, Oxford / London 1962, pp. 95-118.
  • Werner Grossert: The good place. Israelite cemetery in Dessau. In: Series of publications of the Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Dessau eV , Issue 2, Dessau 1994, p. 25.
  • Astrid Mehmel:  Philippson, family of scholars. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 395-397 ( digitized version ).
  • Werner Grossert: The democratic pastor Christian Stein: a contribution to the history of the revolution 1848/49 in Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen. 2012, ISBN 978-3-939197-80-5 , p. 34
  • Jacob Toury : The political orientations of the Jews in Germany: from Jena to Weimar (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute, Volume 15). Leo Baeck Institute, ISSN 0459-097X, 1966, ISBN 9783168211228 , p. 60, online
  • Simone Lässig: Jewish ways into the middle class: cultural capital and social advancement in the 19th century. 2004, ISBN 9783525368404 , pp. 510, 612, online
  • Jörn Garber : 'The mother of all good schools': The Dessau Philanthropinum and German Philanthropism 1774–1793. 2008, ISBN 9783484970410 , p. 48, online
  • Entry PHILIPPSON, Gustav, 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 , pp. 701 f.
  • Werner Grossert: On the history of the Dessau synagogue; in: Bernd G. Ulbrich (Ed.): Anhalt, your Jews ..., 2002, ISBN 3-934388-15-9 , p. 117.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Jewish Biographical Archive (JBA) and the New German Biography (NDB), he was born in 1814.
  2. ↑ Entry PHILIPPSON, Gustav, 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 , pp. 701 f.
personal data
SURNAME Philippson, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and politician, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , Anhalt-Dessau
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1880
Place of death Berlin