Isaac Samuel Reggio

Isaac Samuel Reggio

Isaak Samuel Reggio ( acronym Jaschar ; born August 15, 1784 in Gorizia , † August 29, 1855 in Gorizia) was an Italian rabbi and educator .

Life

Reggio studied Hebrew and rabbinism with his father Abraham Vita, who later became the rabbi of Gorizia , and at the same time received a secular education at the grammar school.

His father attached great importance to the religious education of his son, who turned out to be very gifted. In addition to his Italian mother tongue, he mastered German, French and Latin as well as several Semitic languages .

In 1802 he published an article in the Neuwied newspaper in which he solved a complicated mathematical problem, which also earned him recognition as a mathematician.

In 1803 Reggio went to Trieste , where he initially worked as a tutor for a wealthy family. There he became a friend of Mordecai Isaak de Cologna.

In 1807 he returned to Gorizia and married the daughter of a rich man. He settled in Gorizia to devote himself to his studies. When Illyria became French in 1810, the French governor appointed him professor at the Lyceum. When Illyria became Austrian three years later, he had to give up this position again due to anti-Jewish laws.

He devoted himself entirely to the study of books and made a name for himself as a religious philosopher .

When in 1822 an imperial decree stipulated that no one could become a rabbi without a degree in philosophy, Reggio published a call for the establishment of a rabbinical seminary in Venice . As a result, a rabbinical seminary was founded in Padua in 1829, for which he created the statutes and the training program.

Among other things, he translated the Bible into Italian and wrote a commentary on it. As an opponent of casuistry , he was against Haggadic interpretations of the Bible and the pilulist study of the Talmud. He was attacked by many German rabbis for his liberal views; even his father disagreed with many of his views.

literature

• Maskeret JaSchaR. Autobiography Reggios , Vienna 1849 (including bibliographical index)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Reggio, Isaak Samuel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1873, pp. 132-134 ( digitized version ).
• Salomon Wininger , Great Jewish National Biography , Volume I, 159–160
• Samuel Meisels , REGGIO, ISAAK SAMUEL. In: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Vol. IV / 1, Sp. 1300–1301
• N. Vielmetti:  Reggio Isacco Samuele. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 18.
• Gianfranco Miletto : Collegio Rabbinico. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 2: Co-Ha. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02502-9 , pp. 1-4.

Web links

• Isidore Singer, M. Seligsohn:  REGGIO, ISAAC SAMUEL (YaSHaR). In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.