Julius Landsberger (rabbi, 1821)

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Julius Landsberger (born November 4, 1821 in Skronskau near Landsberg OS ; † February 5, 1894 in Köthen , Anhalt ) was a Silesian rabbi.

Life

Julius Landsberger was the son of Daniel and Marianna Landsberger. Landsberger attended school in Cracow at the age of seven , and at the high school in Opole at fifteen .

From 1853 he was a preacher in Hirschberg . In 1856 he resigned from this office and began studying at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . On April 3, 1860, he received his doctorate with a mathematical dissertation on the subject of the reduction of integrals, which contain an arbitrary function under the integration symbol at the University of Jena .

He then went back to Berlin and worked there as a preacher at the Adass Jeschurun synagogue association. At the same time he was the conductor (head) of the Friedrichstadt Israelite religious school. He also worked as a religion teacher at the Köllnisches Gymnasium and at the Victoria School.

From July 1878 to 1882, Landsberg was a rabbi in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia .

Landsberger had been married to Agnes Herzberg from Köthen since July 19, 1853. The marriage resulted in five daughters and four sons, including the journalist and writer Hugo Landsberger (pseudonym Hans Land ; 1861 – after 1935).

Fonts

  • The human heart, a temple of God. Hanukkah sermon. Hirschberg 1855.
  • Do not desecrate Israel's holy places! Confirmation speech given on June 2, 1861 in the main synagogue in Berlin. WJ Peiser, Berlin 1861.
  • Religion and love. A small catechism for the Israelite youth, initially for his students. WJ Peiser, Berlin 1861. (2nd edition, Berlin 1876)
  • Choose life! Confirmation speech given on September 14, 1862 in the main synagogue in Berlin. WJ Peiser, Berlin 1862.
  • The Mackabeans of Israel and the liberators of Schleswig-Holstein. Speech given to celebrate the Jewish consecration festival in Berlin on the evening of December 24th. 1864. WJ Peiser, Berlin 1864.
  • To the horns of the altar. Confirmation speech. WJ Peiser, Berlin 1873.

literature

  • Entry LANDSBERGER, Julius, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Lorenz 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. 572 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Klaus Siebenhaar:  Landsberger, Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 518 ( digitized version ). There Hugo Landsberger was wrongly assigned a different father - the Darmstadt rabbi Julius Landsberger ; The mother's name and the brother Richard assigned there are also incorrect.
personal data
SURNAME Landsberger, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Skronskau at Landsberg OS
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1894
Place of death Koethen , Anhalt