Isidor Scheftelowitz

Isidor Isaak Scheftelowitz (born May 1, 1875 in Sandersleben / Anhalt , † December 17, 1934 in Oxford ) was a German Indologist , Iranist , folklorist and rabbi .

From 1908 to 1926 he was a rabbi in Cologne . He completed his studies in Sanskrit and Iranian Studies and Folklore in 1914 with the dissertation The Vicarious Chicken Offering, with special emphasis on Jewish popular belief . After stays at the British Museum and the Bodleian Library in Oxford , he returned to Cologne with a teaching post from 1919 at the newly founded University of Cologne . From 1923 to 1933 he was honorary professor in Cologne. In 1933 he was banned from lecturing and emigrated to England, where he taught at Oxford University .

His son is the classical archaeologist Brian B. Shefton .

Works (selection)

Aryan in the Old Testament . 2 vols., 1901–1903 (initially doctoral thesis Königsberg i. Pr.).
The Apocrypha of Rgveda . 1906.
The loop and net motif in the beliefs and customs of peoples . 1912.
The vicarious chicken offering. With special consideration of the Jewish popular belief. 1914.
The ancient Persian religion and Judaism . 1920.
The origin of the Manichaean religion and the mystery of redemption . 1922. Digitized
Old Palestinian peasant belief . 1925.
Time as the deity of fate in the Indian and Iranian religions . 1929.

literature

Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
Scheftelowitz, Isidore. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Diss online (accessed March 2012)
↑ Scheftelowitz in the Encyclopaedia Judaica ( Memento from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 2012)
^ Letter from Scheftelowitz on his ban on lectures

personal data
SURNAME	Scheftelowitz, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scheftelowitz, Isidor Isaak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indologist, Iranist, folklorist and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sandersleben (Anhalt)
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1934
Place of death	Oxford

[1] Diss online (accessed March 2012)

[2] Scheftelowitz in the Encyclopaedia Judaica ( Memento from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 2012)

[3] Letter from Scheftelowitz on his ban on lectures