Leopold Löwenstein

Leopold Löwenstein ( December 1, 1843 in Gailingen am Hochrhein - December 16, 1923 in Mosbach ) was a rabbi , historian and author .

family

Leopold Löwenstein was the son of Rabbi Jakob Löwenstein (born on August 17, 1799 in Bruchsal ; died on July 27, 1869 in Tauberbischofsheim ) and Regina nee Ettlinger (born 1806 in Karlsruhe ; died 1880). He grew up with twelve siblings. At the time of his birth, his father was a district rabbi in Gailingen. Leopold Löwenstein married Sophie nee Weihermann in 1873 (born 1849 in Feuchtwangen ; died 1921 in Mosbach). There were nine children from this marriage: Myriam (born July 24, 1874), Jakob (born March 28, 1876; died February 12, 1878), Betty (born July 14, 1877), Jakob (born January 20 1879; died April 6, 1925), Joseph (born March 19, 1881; died September 3, 1894), Max (born January 14, 1884; fallen 1915), Regina (born December 30, 1885), Joel (born July 8, 1887; died 1964) and Alfred (born April 5, 1894).

education

He attended the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Tauberbischofsheim and then the Lyceum in Karlsruhe . From 1862 to 1865 he studied the following subjects at the University of Würzburg : Modern History, Philosophy, History of Literature and Education. At the same time he attended the Talmud school of the orthodox rabbi Seligmann Bär Bamberger . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Professional background

In 1865 he became a teacher at the Israelite school in Eisenstadt in Burgenland and at the same time was a student of Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's yeshiva . In 1866/67 he was a teacher at the higher Israelite school in Hamburg and from 1868 to 1870 a teacher in Güstrow . After Leopold Löwenstein was a teacher in Tauberbischofsheim in 1871/72, he accepted the position of rabbi in his birthplace Gailingen in 1872. From 1886 until his death he was district rabbi for the district rabbinates of Mosbach , Merchingen and Wertheim . Before 1907 he worked part-time for the editorial team of the Jewish weekly newspaper Der Israelit . From 1920 until his death he was a conference rabbi , that is, a member of the religious conference in the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden .

Leopold Löwenstein died on December 16, 1923 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mosbach .

Award

• 1891 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Zähringer Lion Order
• 1923 honorary citizen of the city of Mosbach

Works (selection)

• 1899 to 1904 editor of the papers for Jewish history and literature , Mainz. ( Digitized version )
• since 1901 participation in the Jewish Encyclopedia , New York.
• History of the Jews on Lake Constance and the surrounding area. Based on printed and unprinted sources , Gailingen 1879 ( digitized version )
• Historical and bibliographical notes. In: Magazine for the science of Judaism. 16 (1889), No. 4, pp. 259-262.
• History of the Jews in the Electoral Palatinate: based on printed and unprinted sources. ( Contributions to the history of the Jews in Germany , vol. I) Frankfurt a. M. 1895 ( digitized version ).
• Nathanael Weil : Oberland rabbi in Karlsruhe and his family. In: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Germany , Vol. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1898 ( digitized version ).
• History of the Jews from Babylonian Captivity to the Present; for school and home. Frankfurt a. M. 1903.
• Light and dark sides from the history of the Jews in Wertheim. Baden-Baden 1907.
• On the history of the Jews in Fürth , 3 parts in 1 volume, (reprint of the Frankfurt edition 1909–1913) Hildesheim 1974
• Ceremonial sermons by Grand Ducal District Rabbis Dr. L. Löwenstein in Mosbach. Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the district by the grateful communities of his rabbinical district Mosbach, Merchingen, Wertheim. Adelsheim 1912 ( digitized version ).
• Miffah haheskemat, index approbationum. Frankfurt a. M. 1923 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Berthold Rosenthal : Home history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present. Bühl 1927 (Reprint: Magstadt bei Stuttgart 1981), p. 342, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 .
• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Volume 4).
• Balduin Herter: Mosbach in the 3rd Reich. 4th issue: Die Judengemeinde von Mosbach 1297 to 1940. Mosbach 2008, pp. 93–99 (pp. 100–105: detailed bibliography of the works of Leopold Löwenstein).
• Esriel Hildesheimer , Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-46-0 , p. 183.
• Michael Brocke (Hrsg.), Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.), Carsten Wilke , Katrin Nele Jansen: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2, Rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 , pp. 410-412.

Web links

• Literature by and about Leopold Löwenstein in the catalog of the German National Library