Lion Ullmann

Lion Ullmann , also Baruch Löb Ullmann , Leopold Ullmann or Ludwig Ullmann (born December 3, 1804 in Sankt Goar ; died September 4, 1843 in Krefeld ) was a German rabbi and orientalist . From 1836 to 1843 he was chief rabbi of the Krefeld Consistory .

family

Lion Ullmann was the son of the businessman Baruch Ullmann and Judith Isaac, nee Jonas. He married Nanette-Nannche Süßel (born 1808 in Abersheim, died after 1868 in Frankfurt am Main ), the orphan of the trader Leopold Süßel and the adopted daughter of the Mainz rabbi Löb Ellinger.

Life

Lion Ullmann attended the Talmudic schools in Bingen and from 1821 in Darmstadt . In addition, he acquired knowledge of German, French and Latin. In 1823 he became vicar to Rabbi Callmann Mengeburg in Darmstadt. In 1829 he was ordained a rabbi ( Morenu ) by Callmann Mengeburg and the rabbis Leo Ellinger ( Mainz ) and Seckel Löb Wormser ( Michelstadt ) . From December 1829 to 1833 he studied at the University of Bonn with Georg Wilhelm Freytag "Jewish theology", Arabic and oriental studies . He belonged to the circle of friends around Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch . Then he was tutor to the businessman Zons in Koblenz . He received his doctorate in May 1835 from the University of Giessen .

In March 1836 Lion Ullmann was elected Chief Rabbi of the Krefeld Consistory. He was the first academically trained rabbi in Krefeld. Ullmann wrote the first synagogue order for the Krefeld Consistory in 1836 (“Synagogue, marriage and burial order” of May 20, 1836). Although this was introduced in all synagogues in the administrative districts of Düsseldorf, Cologne and Aachen, it was not implemented everywhere, not even in his own community, which led to considerable annoyance. In 1840 he founded a Jewish elementary school in Krefeld.

In the same year he published a translation of the Koran , which is reprinted to this day. In response to his petition written in 1843, the Rhenish assembly of estates suspended the Napoleonic "Décret infâme" .

Lion Ullmann died of a "chest cramp" after suffering for many years. His tombstone is in the Heideckstrasse cemetery in Krefeld.

Fonts

• Funeral speech in honor of the late Mr. Löw Carlburg. Coblenz 1835.
• Speak when taking office. Krefeld 1836 (cf. Eleonore Stockhausen: On the history of the Jewish community in Krefeld in the 19th century. The rabbis. In: Krefelder Juden. Bonn 1981, pp. 57–60.)
• Synagogue, marriage and burial regulations for the Israelite community of the Crefeld consistorial district. Krefeld 1836.
• The Koran . Translated verbatim from Arabic and provided with explanatory notes. Verlag JH Funcke, Krefeld 1840. This publication is the first complete German translation of the Koran. The first edition of 4,000 copies was soon sold out. Eight more editions appeared by 1897.
  • paperback edition revised by Leo W. Winter (as “Ludwig Ullmann”): Goldmann, Munich 1959; New edition ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-21846-2 .

literature

• Ludwig Philippson (editor): Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. An impartial organ for all Jewish interests. Leipzig 1840, p. 291f., 1841, p. 340, 1843, p. 617ff. ( Digitized version )
• Julius Fürst (editor): The Orient. Reports, Studies, and Reviews for Jewish History and Literature. Leipzig 1843, pp. 330, 332f., 390 ( digitized version ).
• Meyer Kayserling (ed.): Library of Jewish pulpit speakers. A chronological collection of the sermons, biographies, and characteristics of the finest Jewish preachers. Volume II, Berlin 1872, p. 308.
• Eleonore Stockhausen: On the history of the Jewish community Krefeld in the 19th century. The rabbis. In: Krefeld Jews. Bonn 1981, pp. 57-60.
• Ludwig Hügen: Jewish communities on the Lower Rhine - their history, their fate. Willich 1985, p. 98.
• Entry ULLMANN, Lion, 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 867f.
• The Krefeld synagogue order demands calm and order in the church service, 1836. In: Elfriede Pracht-Jörns (adaptation): Jüdische Lebenswelten im Rheinland. Annotated sources from the early modern period to the present. Cologne 2011.

Web links

• Gravestone in the epigraphic database of the Steinheim Institute
• Essay by Chief Rabbi Dr. Lion Ullmann on the false accusation of ritual murder in Jülich, in: Juden im Kreis Düren, pp. II-10f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] .
2. ↑ Michael Brocke , Aubrey Pomerance: Stones like souls. The old Jewish cemetery in Krefeld. Funerary monuments and inscriptions. Krefeld 2003, pp. 91-93.

predecessor	Office	successor
Löb Carlburg	Rabbi of Krefeld	Löb Bodenheimer