Isaiah Wohlgemuth

Isaiah Wohlgemuth (born June 10, 1820 in Neustadt-Schirwindt , Russian Poland ; died December 31, 1898 in Hamburg ) was a German rabbi .

Isaiah Wohlgemuth was a classmate of Israel Salanter with his father, the rabbi Moses Salanter. In 1838, at the age of 18, he was ordained as a rabbi by Zwi Broda . In the same year he became a rabbi in Memel , East Prussia . He worked there for 44 years. He was a civil judge, founded a Talmud society and ran a yeshiva , which was mainly visited by Russian Jews. In 1881 he became the monastery rabbi of Klaus in Hamburg. He was also a Dajan in the Beth Din of Chief Rabbi Ansel Stern .

Isaiah Wohlgemuth's son was the rabbi and author Josef Wohlgemuth (1867 Memel - 1942 Frankfurt am Main).

literature

• Eduard Duckesz : Sefär Hachmē AHU ... [ Chachme AHW: Biographies and gravestone inscriptions of the Dajanim, authors and other outstanding men of the three communities Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek. Hebrew], Hamburg 1908.
• Entry WOHLGEMUTH, Isaiah. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten 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 , p. 909.