Lazarus Bendavid

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Lazarus Bendavid

Lazarus Bendavid (born October 18, 1762 in Berlin ; † March 28, 1832 there ) was a German-Jewish mathematician, philosopher and educator.

biography

Bendavid was the son of David Lazarus and his wife Chawa, daughter of the Berlin velvet manufacturer David Hirsch. After successfully attending the Berlin Talmud School , Bendavid began to study mathematics and philosophy at the University of Halle . He later moved to the University of Göttingen . When he worked there as a private tutor, he made a. a. the acquaintance with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg .

After completing his studies, Bendavid worked as a private lecturer. As such, he went to the University of Vienna at the end of 1791 , where he taught philosophy for six years. He tried to popularize Immanuel Kant's ideas.

In 1797 he returned to Berlin. Since that time he has written for various magazines and newspapers. On the occasion of a competition, the Academy of Sciences in Berlin awarded Bendavid's work On the Origin of Our Knowledge 1801 with the first prize. From 1802 the Haude and Spenersche Zeitung hired him as a political editor.

From 1806 Bendavid was appointed director of the Jewish free school in Berlin. He held this office until 1826. The restructuring of the school this year took Bendavid as an opportunity to resign and retire.

Lazarus Bendavid died in Berlin in 1832 at the age of 69. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • Over the parallel lines , 1786
  • Attempt at a logical analysis of the mathematical infinite , 1789 ( digitized version )
  • Something about the characteristics of the Jews , 1793
  • Trial over Pleasure , 1794
  • Lectures on the Critique of Pure Reason, 1794
  • Lectures on the Critics of Practical Reason , 1796 ( digitized version )
  • Lectures on the Critique of Judgment , 1796
  • Contributions to the Critique of Taste , 1797
  • Lectures on The Metaphysical Beginnings of Natural Science, 1798 ( digitized version )
  • Attempt to study taste , 1799 ( digitized version )
  • Articles of various content, 1800 ( digitized version )
  • About the origin of our knowledge , 1801
  • An attempt at a legal theory , 1802
  • Self-biography , 1806 ( website with the text )
  • On the religion of the Hebrews before Moses , 1812
  • To calculate the Jewish calendar , 1817

literature

  • Ludwig Geiger :  Bendavid, Lazarus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 318-320.
  • Bendavid, Lazarus. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 3-11.
  • Dominique Bourel: Lazarus Bendavid and the Berlin Academy . In: European Society Movement and Democratic Tradition. 1996, pp. 1454-1462
  • Dominique Bourel: Lazarus Bendavids educational path and his work as director of the Jewish free school . In: Jewish education and educational school reform. 2002, pp. 359-367
  • Armin Erlinghagen: On the situation of philosophy in Germany around 1800. Critical and commented edition of an unpublished letter by Lazarus Bendavid, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 64 (2012), no. 2, pp. 152-175.
  • Harald Lordick; Beata Mache: “Great urban education”. The enlightener Lazarus Bendavid. In: Kalonymos. 15, No. 3, 2012, pp. 6-10 ( online) .
  • Harald Lordick: Portrait of a Typographer. An insightful source on Lazarus Bendavid and Moses Samuel Lowe. In: Kalonymos. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 7-11 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Lazarus Bendavid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 350.
personal data
SURNAME Bendavid, Lazarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1832
Place of death Berlin