Immanuel Wohlwill

Immanuel Wohlwill (originally Immanuel Wolf; born August 28, 1799 in Harzgerode , † March 2, 1847 in Seesen ) was a German educator and Jewish publicist.

After the death of his parents, Wohlwill attended the free school in Seesen, then switched to the Berlin-Kölln grammar school. Before graduating from high school, he took part in the “Science Cirkel”, from which first the “Association for the Improvement of the Condition of Jews in the German Federal State” and soon afterwards the Association for Culture and Science of the Jews emerged . The association's journal opened its first issue in 1822 with its programmatic contribution “On the Concept of a Science of Judaism ”.

After studying in Berlin, Wohlwill became a Dr. phil. obtained his doctorate and went to Hamburg as a teacher at the Israelite Free School in 1825 . In 1838 he became director of the Jewish non-denominational Jacobson School in Seesen (Harz). At that time, the Seesen Jewish community was one of the most important Jewish reform communities.

The children of Wohlwill and his wife Friederike Reichel Warburg include the chemist Emil Wohlwill (1835–1912), Anna Wohlwill (1841–1919), teacher and director of the Paulsenstiftschule in Hamburg, and the historian Adolf Wohlwill (1843–1916).

Work (selection)

• About the concept of a Wissenschaft des Judenthums, in: Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, 1823, pp. 1–24 ( online )
• Comments on the position of the Hamburg Israelite Free School, 1830 ( online )
• Contributions to the theory of the poor, 1834

literature

• Arno Herzig : Well will, Immanuel. In: The Jewish Hamburg. ( online at www.dasjuedischehamburg.de).