Julius Höxter

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Julius Höxter (born February 4, 1873 in Treysa , † April 5, 1944 in Richmond upon Thames , Surrey , England) was a German educator and writer of the Jewish faith .

Youth and years of education

Höxter was born in the north Hessian town of Treysa, today part of Schwalmstadt in the Schwalm-Eder district , and attended the elementary and candidate school there until he was 14. Then he went to the preparatory work in Fritzlar for a year to prepare for the teaching profession and then from 1888 to 1893 attended the Jewish teachers' college in Hanover . At Easter 1893 he passed the first teacher examination in Hanover and the second in Kassel in autumn 1895 . From spring 1893 to autumn 1896, after leaving the seminary, he worked as a teacher and educator in the " Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt zu Ahlem bei Hannover". During this time he acquired the high school education required for academic studies. In autumn 1896 he went to the University of Heidelberg , where he studied history until the winter semester 1900/1901 and received his doctorate in 1901 with a dissertation on "The prehistory and the first two years of the everlasting Reichstag in Regensburg".

Teacher in Frankfurt

In 1904 he went to the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked as a teacher at the religious school of the Israelite community, the Goethe-Gymnasium and the Wöhler-Realgymnasium in Frankfurt's Westend . In addition, he was active in many ways in the community life of the large reform-oriented Frankfurt Israelite community and in professional politics . For many years he was the head of the conservative church service on the high holidays in the West End synagogue, which was built in 1893 and devastated in the pogrom night of November 9-10 , 1938 .

In 1922 he took part in the founding of the "Jüdischer Beamtenbund" (Jewish Official Association), whose concern was to preserve the legal and economic position of the Jewish community employees in Frankfurt. He founded the Frankfurt "Association of Israelite Religious Teachers", later called the "Jewish Teachers' Association", which he headed for more than three decades until 1937 and which dealt with the creation of authoritative curricula for elementary and secondary schools and widely used teaching and teaching Deserved school books. With the help of funds donated by friends and admirers, which he gave to the “Association of Jewish Teachers' Associations in the German Reich”, he initiated the “Dr. Julius Höxter Foundation "for the awarding and promotion of Jewish-educational scientific and methodical work, textbooks and teaching materials.

"The Höxter"

Höxter's work culminated with the "Source book on Jewish history and literature", which appeared in five volumes from 1927 to 1930. With this work, which became known as “Der Höxter” , he fulfilled a long felt need of the Jewish teaching staff, who wanted a systematic collection of sources for their history lessons. The source book was not of a scientific nature, and philological text research and historical source criticism were therefore generally disregarded. As a supplement, his “Jewish History and Literature in Comparative Time Tables”, written on behalf of the committee set up by the Frankfurt community for religious instruction, appeared in 1935. Also in 1935 a one-volume short version of the "Quellenbuch" appeared, which was also printed in an English translation in 1938. Since its publication, “Der Höxter” has been an important standard work for dealing with Jewish history, literature and culture. In 1983 it was republished in a two-volume version.

In 2009 a revised and expanded edition was published by Michael Tilly , in which Höxter's comprehensive text collection was expanded to include a selection of important documents from the most recent times and supplemented with current literature references.

Emigration and death

Höxter managed to emigrate to England in 1939, where he died in 1944 at the age of 71.

Fonts

  • The prehistory and the first two years of the "everlasting" Reichstag in Regensburg. Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctorate of the high philosophical faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg presented by Julius Höxter from Treysa (Rgbz. Cassel). Pfeffer, Heidelberg, 1901 ( digit. )
  • Source book on Jewish history and literature. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main, 1927–1930
  • Jewish history and literature in comparative chronological tables. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main, 1935
  • Source book on Jewish history and literature. Small edition, Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main, 1935
  • Source book on Jewish history and literature: Jewish texts from ancient times to World War II. Reprint. Morascha, Zurich, 1983
  • Source texts on Jewish history and literature. Edited by Michael Tilly. Newly set, revised and supplemented edition after the edition Frankfurt am Main 1930, Marix-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-198-8 .

literature

  • Julius Höxter. In: Paul Arnsberg : The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution , Volume 3: Biographical lexicon of the Jews in the fields of: Science, culture, education, public relations in Frankfurt am Main. Edited by the Kuratorium für Jüdische Geschichte, Frankfurt am Main 1983, pp. 222–223, ISBN 3-7929-0130-7 .
  • Peter Bloch : My teachers . Frankfurt 2008. (Contains a portrait and photo of Julius Höxter)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Hoexter and Moses Jung: Source book of Jewish history and literature. Abridged ed., Shapiro, Vallentine, London, 1938
personal data
SURNAME Höxter, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Treysa
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1944
Place of death Richmond upon Thames , England