Leopold Donath

Leopold Donath (born October 1, 1842 in Morva-Liessko , Kingdom of Hungary ; died 1876 in Güstrow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin ) was a German rabbi and author.

Leopold Donath was the son of Felix Donath and Sara Rosenthal. He attended elementary school in his hometown. He received talmudic and humanistic lessons at Esriel Hildesheimer's rabbinical school in Eisenstadt . He then attended the Protestant Lyceum in Preßburg , which he completed with the Matura . He studied five semesters at the University of Vienna and then received eight years of instruction from Hildesheimer in Eisenstadt and from Chief Rabbi SW Schreiber in Pressburg, from whom he was also ordained . Donath became rabbi in Güstrow in 1870. On January 4, 1872, he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock .

Works

• The Alexander legend in Talmud and Midrash, with reference to Josephus Flavius , Pseudo-Callisthenes and the Mohammedan Alexander legend. De Alexandri Magni rebus partim mythicis quales insunt in libris Talmudicis. Dissertation Rostock 1873 (printed in Fulda).
• History of the Jews in Mecklenburg from the earliest times (1266) to the present (1874). Leipzig 1874, reprint: Vaduz 1984.
• From the time in the pulpit. Five little sermons. 1. Issue Fulda no year
• Halachic correspondence with Esriel Hildesheimer in his Responses I, No. 33 (from 1873) and 87 (from 1864).

Literature (selection)

• Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Publisher by M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1896, p. 850 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
• Péter Ujvári: Magyar zsidó lexicon. Budapest 1929, p. 206.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 233 (No. 1793).
• Entry DONATH, Leopold, Dr. 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, p. 253, no. 321.

Web links

• Jews in Mecklenburg