Hirsch Kunreuther

This article describes the life of the Jewish scholar. The life of the Kunreuther family from Gotha is described in the article Villa Kunreuther .

Hirsch (Naftali-Hirsch) Levi Kunreuther (born 1771 in Kunreuth , Upper Franconia ; died on February 12, 1847 in Gelnhausen , Electorate of Hesse ) was a Jewish Talmud and Torah scholar.

Life

Hirsch Kunreuther was the son of Issachar Levi Kunreuther . He attended the Mainz yeshiva as a student of Herz Scheuer. In 1792 he fled from the French occupation and studied at the yeshiva in Fürth . In 1795 he married his wife Jeanette Levy (née Eskeles, 1787–1863) in Baiersdorf . After her death he married Güttle Guttel (née Pfeissel, died 1812). He had 14 children from both marriages.

In 1796 he was ordained by the Mainz Chief Rabbi in Berlin. From August 1813, Hirsch Kunreuther was rabbi in Mergentheim , then from 1819 until his death the last rabbi in Gelnhausen. During his tenure, the synagogue was extensively renovated. But there were also disagreements with the community leaders and subsequently with the provincial rabbi Felsenstein. In Gelnhausen he led a large yeshiva. Apart from two of his sons, his students included Lazarus Adler and Mayer Löwenmayer, who later became rabbi.

After his death, this Jewish community was looked after from Hanau . Dr. Heinrich Kunreuther (1864–1925) from Gotha was his grandson.

literature

• Entry KUNREUTHER, Hirsch. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Lorenz 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. 553 f.