Michael Creizenach

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Michael Creizenach (born May 16, 1789 in Mainz ; died August 5, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German pedagogue and theologian.

Life

Michael Creizenach came from a wealthy and respected family in Mainz. From 1805 he attended the French lyceum there, which he left with distinction after two and a half years. Creizenach devoted himself particularly intensively to mathematical studies.

Under the philosophical influence of the encyclopedists , Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau , he founded a Jewish school in Mainz in 1813, which was initially rejected by the Jewish community, but was later adopted by them. Creizenach developed a new high school type by shifting the focus of the curriculum from the ancient languages (Latin and Greek) to the modern languages as well as history, mathematics and the natural sciences. This didactic approach also met with great interest from enlightened educators and school administrators outside of the Jewish community .

Michael Creizenach published numerous textbooks, including The Beginnings of Descriptive Geometry or the Theory of Projection (1821), a treatise on the eleventh Euclidean principle regarding parallel lines (1821), instructions for higher interest calculation along with logarithm tables (1825), elementary theory of technical geometry: for Use for community and trade schools (1829), and a French reader for use in community schools (1825). In 1824 he also published the Jewish journal Geist der Pharisaic doctrine in Mainz .

On September 22, 1823 Creizenach was at the University of Giessen to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1825 he was appointed as a preacher and teacher at the Israelite Realschule Philanthropin, founded in 1804, in Frankfurt am Main.

Michael Creizenach also dealt with religious and political questions of Judaism throughout his life . Schulchan Aruch , or encyclopedic representation of the Mosaic Law (1833–1840, 4 volumes) is considered to be his main work . Against an anti-emancipatory treatise by the Protestant theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus, in 1831 he published preliminary remarks on Dr. HEG Paulus published under the title: The Jewish national segregation according to origin, consequences and means of improvement .

In 1831, at his instigation, a municipal secondary school with three classes was opened in the Welschnonnenkloster in Mainz , and in 1836 this was expanded and nationalized as a grand-ducal provincial secondary school . From 1848 the school was expanded to 6 classes. Creizenach has become the father of the modern school in Mainz.

Together with the historian Isaak Markus Jost , he published the magazine Zion in Hebrew in 1841/1842 . Jost gave the funeral oration at his friend's funeral on August 8, 1842.

Along with Ludwig Börne , Berthold Auerbach , Isaak Markus Jost and Gabriel Riesser, Creizenach was a member of the Freemason lodge L'Aurore naissante ("To the rising dawn"), founded in 1808 under the Grand Orient de France in Frankfurt am Main , which mainly accepted Jews. His son Theodor Creizenach (1818–1877) was an important German literary historian.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Handbook of Freemasonry. 2nd edition of Lenning's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Max Hesses's publishing house, Leipzig 1900.

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SURNAME Creizenach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and Jewish theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1842
Place of death Frankfurt am Main