Max Freudenthal
Max Freudenthal (born June 12, 1868 in Neuhaus an der Saale , Lower Franconia ; † July 11, 1937 in Munich ) was a German reform rabbi and historian of the Jewish history of Bavaria .
Life
He was born the son of the teacher Benjamin Freudenthal and his wife Johanna geb. Wildberg. The father was a teacher at the Grünstadt Latin School , which Max Freudenthal also attended. From there he went to the Gymnasium Worms , where he passed his Abitur in 1886. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminar and studied history and philosophy at the University of Wroclaw . In 1891 Freudenthal received his doctorate on Philo of Alexandria . In 1893 he became rabbi in Dessau and regional rabbi of Anhalt , in 1900 rabbi in Danzig and finally from 1907 to 1934 in Nuremberg . After completing his active rabbi, he lived in Munich, where he also died.
He was a moderate reformer, carried out innovations primarily in religious instruction and in the writing of prayer books, was active within the Bne-Briss -Loge and founded the Jakob-Herz-Lodge in memory of the popular Bavarian-Jewish doctor and Professor Jakob Herz in Nuremberg.
At times Max Freudenthal was chairman of the Bavarian Rabbinical Conference and second chairman of the Association of Bavarian Israelite Congregations . In addition, he was interested in regional historiography with a Jewish focus, so he wrote works on the Jewish participants at the Leipzig Trade Fair , on the Jewish communities in Nuremberg and Dessau and on the Gomperz family in individual publications and articles in the MGWJ and collective works.
Works (selection)
- The epistemology of Philo of Alexandria , Berlin 1891
- From the home of Moses Mendelssohn , Berlin 1900
- The Gomperz Family, On the History of Jewish Families III . J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt a. M. 1907 (started together with David Kaufmann , who died over it)
- Jews in Grünstadt and the surrounding area , Leininger Geschichtsblätter, Altertumsverein Grünstadt , born 1911, p. 20
- Religious book for Israelite religious instruction in the upper classes , Nuremberg 1918 (2nd edition)
- as publisher: War memorial book of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg , Nürnberg 1920
- The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg 1874-1924 , 1925 (including an autobiography)
- Leipzig guests , 1928
literature
(Selection)
- Markus Brann , History of the Jewish theological seminar (Fraenckel'sche Foundation) in Breslau. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the institution , Breslau undated [1905].
- Eugen Pessen: Freudenthal, Max. In: Jüdisches Lexikon , Volume II., Berlin 1927.
- Bernhard Vogt: Freudenthal, Max. In: Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X (identical in the new edition Gütersloh 2000).
- Jeannette Strauss Almstad / Matthias Wolfes: Max Freudenthal. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 448-452.
Web links
- Short biography in the portal Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
- Website in the Alemannia-Judaica portal on the Jewish community in Neuhaus an der Saale, with a contribution to Max Freudenthal
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Brocke: The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , p. 200, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 359844107X ; Digital view
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freudenthal, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuhaus an der Pegnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1937 |
| Place of death | Munich |