Isidor Kracauer

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Isidor Kracauer (born October 16, 1852 in Sagan , Silesia ; died April 24, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a historian and expert on Judaism in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Isidor Kracauer studied history , German and geography at the University of Breslau , where he also received his doctorate . In 1875, Kracauer came to Frankfurt, where he worked as a history teacher at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt's Nordend until his retirement in 1919 . During this time, Kracauer began to deal intensively with the history of Frankfurt's Jews. The result of his extensive research are a number of important publications on this topic. His two-volume history of the Frankfurt Jews is now considered a standard work. From the 1880s until his death he was a board member of the Association for History and Archeology in Frankfurt am Main.

He and his wife Hedwig geb. Oppenheimer (1862–1944) headed the Julius and Amalie-Flersheim'sche Foundation from 1885 to 1917 , which was dedicated to the education and training of the sons of parents in need. Hedwig Kracauer was deported in 1942 and was a victim of the Holocaust . He was the uncle of the sociologist and writer Siegfried Kracauer , who also gave him the first spiritual suggestions in relation to his further career.

In his autobiography Ginster , Siegfried describes the scientific work method of his uncle Isidor very clearly. Isidor's brother Adolf was married to Siegfried's mother Rosette, a sister of Hedwig, who was also deported in 1942 and murdered in Treblinka.

Isidor Kracauer is buried in the old Jewish cemetery on Rat-Beil-Strasse in Frankfurt.

Works (selection)

  • History of the Jews in Frankfurt aM (1150-1824) , 2 volumes, Frankfurt a. M. 1925-1927. Volume 1: University Library of Marburg Volume 2: University Library of Marburg
  • From the internal history of the Jews of Frankfurt in the 14th century (Judengasse, trade and other professions) . In: Annual Report of the Philanthropin , Frankfurt a. M. 1914, pp. 1-51. Internet Archive
  • Document book on the history of the Jews in Frankfurt am Main from 1150 to 1400. Volume 1: Documents, arithmetic books, Bedebücher. Volume 2: Citizens' books, court books, grave inscriptions, registers . Frankfurt am Main, 1914. Volume 1: MDZ Munich Volume 2: MDZ Munich
  • The political history of Frankfurt's Jews up to 1349 . In: Philanthropin's program , Frankfurt a. M. 1911, pp. 1-46. Giessen University Library, MDZ Munich
  • History of the Judengasse in Frankfurt am Main . In: Festschrift for the centenary of the Realschule of the Israelite community (philanthropist) , Frankfurt a. M. 1904, pp. 307-464. Internet Archive

literature

  • Kracauer, Isidore. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 254-259.
  • Julius Cahn : [Obituary for] Isidor Kracauer . In: Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art , 4th part, Issue 2, 1929, pp. 6-9.
  • Kracauer, Isidore . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 421 .
  • Jewish foundations in Frankfurt aM Foundations, donations, organizations and associations with short biographies of Jewish citizens . Edited by Arno Lustiger, Frankfurt am Main 1988, pp. 14–15.
  • Christhard Hoffmann: From Heinrich Heine to Isidor Kracauer: The Frankfurt Ghetto in the German-Jewish historical culture and historiography of the 19th and early 20th centuries . In: Frankfurter Judengasse. Jewish life in the early modern period . Edited by Fritz Backhaus , Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles and Margarete Schlüter (= series of publications by the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, vol. 9), Frankfurt am Main 2006, pp. 33–51.
  • Krakauer, Isidore . In: Paul Arnsberg : The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution . Volume 3. Biographical Lexicon . Eduard Roether, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-7929-0130-7 , p. 254.

Web links

Wikisource: Isidor Kracauer  - List of publications (German)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Kracauer: Gorse. Written by himself (= complete edition vol. 7), Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 55–60, 76, 104–105, 124, 130–131, 160 and 181–182.
  2. ↑ See Stolperstein for Hedwig and Rosette Kracauer with biographical information
personal data
SURNAME Kracauer, Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagan , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1923
Place of death Frankfurt am Main