Mayer Randegger

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Mayer Randegger (born February 9, 1780 in Worblingen ; died March 3, 1853 in Trieste ) was an Austrian teacher and rabbi .

Life

Mayer was born as the second child of Anna (1751-1857) and the merchant Moses (1748-1826) in the village of Worblingen, which belonged to the Counts of Nellenberg in front of Austria . After the parents lost their property through robbery, the family moved to Randegg , which also belonged to the Nellenberg county. Mayer was initially tutored by his parents and private tutors, and later accompanied his father on business trips to Zurich , St. Gallen , Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt an der Oder , where he met the philosopher Johann Caspar Lavater and the historian Johannes von Müller, among others .

Mayer became a student of Raphael Ris in Lengnau and studied in Fürth with Salomon Kohn , where he became a Meschuchrar. During a subsequent stay at the yeshiva in Pressburg , Mayer was rejected because of his German education. There, Mayer took the surname Randegger on the basis of a tolerance patent issued by Emperor Joseph II , which he chose based on where his parents lived. Randegger worked briefly as a private tutor in Vienna and then moved to Trieste, where he was initially a private tutor and then taught at a public Jewish school. He married in Trieste in 1805. His wife was the third daughter of the secretary of the Trieste parish Joseph Galico and cousin of Rabbi Isaac Samuel Reggio . Galico, also known as Josef Chajim Chiskija Galigo, was in correspondence with the German representatives of the Enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn and Hartwig Wessely in 1782 and was involved in disseminating Wessely's writings on secular educational reform in Italy. Randegger founded his own three-class school in Trieste, which, according to Wessely's ideas, taught in Hebrew, Italian and German and, during the French occupation, also in French. He was a sub-rabbi of the Ashkenazi synagogue. After the death of the Trieste Chief Rabbi Abraham Elieser Levi until Abraham Vita de Cologna (1754-1832) took office in 1826 and again after his death until Sabbato Graziado Treves (died 1856) took office in 1834, Randegger held the post of Deputy Chief Rabbi . Due to conflicts with the school authorities, Randegger left Trieste and initially unsuccessfully tried to open a Jewish school in Rijeka . From 1839 to 1847 he taught at the Jewish school in Fiorenzuola d'Arda . In 1848 he had to leave Fiorenzuola due to the political situation and returned to Trieste, where he opened a private girls' school.

family

Mayer Randegger and his wife had several daughters and sons. Daughter Sara (1808–1889) married Rabbi Leopold Schott . The composer, conductor and singing teacher Alberto Randegger (1832-1911) was Mayer's nephew, the violinist, conductor and composer Alberto Iginio Randegger (1880-1918) was his great-nephew.

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Randegger was in correspondence with the rabbis Moses Sofer (1762-1839) in Pressburg, Mordecai Benet (1753-1829) in Nikolsburg and Ascher Löw in Karlsruhe. He wrote essays on biblical subjects for the Jewish magazines Kerem Chemed , Bikkure ha-Ittim, and Kochbe Jizchak . In 1841 he published a historical-critical defense of the authenticity of the Book of Psalms . Among Randegger's pupils was the later scholar and poet Samuel David Luzzatto , who from 1810 received German and French lessons from him and an insight into European culture.

Works (selection)

  • Letters in Isaac Samuel Reggio: אגרות ישר , Iggerot Yaschar , Volume 2, Vienna 1836
  • צנת דוד , Zinnath David. Historical-critical attempt to trace the psalms back to David's times, along with an appendix on some biblical poetic pieces (Hebrew), Schmid and Busch, Vienna 1841, ( online on Books.Google)
  • הגדה , Hagadah, Racconto degli avvenimenti memorabili occasionanti la Pasqua (Italian), translation into Italian by a daughter of Randegger, with comments by Mayer Randegger, Stamperia d'Adalberto della Torre, Vienna 1851

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyer Kayserling : Moses Mendelssohn, his life and his works. Along with an attachment to unprinted letters , Leipzig, 1862, p. 309
  2. ^ Britta L. Behm: Moses Mendelssohn and the Transformation of Jewish Education in Berlin. An educational history analysis of the Jewish Enlightenment in the 18th century , Waxmann, 2002, p. 227
  3. ^ Morris B. Margolies: Samuel David Luzzatto, traditionalist scholar , New York 1979, p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Randegger, Mayer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Randegger, Mayer; Randegger, Mayer Raffaele; Randegger, Mayer R .; Randegger, Maier; Randegger, Meir; Randigger, Me'ir; Randegger, Meʾir; רנדיגר, מאיר; Randegger, Maier Schott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Worblingen
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1853
Place of death Trieste