Mendel Hess
Mendel Hess , also Mendel Heß , (born March 17, 1807 in Lengsfeld , died September 21, 1871 in Eisenach ) was a rabbi and author. From 1839 to 1848 he was editor of the weekly newspaper The Israelite of the Nineteenth Century .
Life
Mendel Hess was born in 1807 in Lengsfeld in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach as the son of Rabbi Isaac Hess Kugelmann (1762-1827) and his wife Beile, née Rothschild. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the town was the center of Jewish life in the front Rhön - around 800 Jewish citizens lived here. Hess' older brother Michael (1782-1860) was a teacher at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt am Main .
In 1824 he began studying oriental studies at the University of Würzburg , which he graduated in 1827. He then returned to Lengsfeld, where in 1829 he took over his father's rabbinate. He received his doctorate from the University of Jena on November 5, 1829. As a rabbi, he tried to enforce the religious reform . In 1835 he joined the Association of Jewish Scholars founded by Abraham Geiger .
In 1836 he married Henriette Heß, the daughter of the Breslau merchant Siegmund Heß.
He published his reformist ideas from 1839 in the journal Der Israelit des Nineteenth Century . Between 1844 and 1846 he was a participant in the rabbi conferences in Braunschweig , Frankfurt am Main and Breslau .
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carsten Wilke : The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781 - 1871 . 1. Volume Aach - Juspa. Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 432 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Mendel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hess, Mendel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lengsfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1871 |
| Place of death | Eisenach |