Michael Sachs (rabbi)
Michael Sachs (born September 3, 1808 in Großglogau ; died January 31, 1864 in Berlin ) was a German rabbi .
Michael Sachs was the son of the merchant Naftali-Juda Sachs. He received Talmud lessons from Rabbi Öttinger in Glogau. When he was 13 he started high school.
Sachs enrolled in May 1827 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. There he studied philology with Boeckh , Schleiermacher and Hegel . In May 1835 he passed the senior teacher examination. In October of the same year he received his doctorate from the University of Jena . He was the head of the Berlin Jewish Girls' School.
Michael Sachs was appointed to Prague as rabbi of the Jewish community in 1836 . In Prague he conducted private studies with the Talmudist Saul Jonathan Löwy (1809–1849).
In 1837 he married Henriette Lehfeldt (1816–1878), daughter of the landowner Elkan Levi from Glogau.
From 1844 he was a “preacher and rabbinical assessor” in Berlin. He worked for the journal for the religious interests of Judaism Zacharias Frankels and supporter of the conservative theologians' assembly (1846) and until 1848 a member of the German Oriental Society .
He gave the funeral speech for the victims of the Jewish faith among those who fell in March of the revolution of 1848.
The Michael Sachs Lodge in Königshütte , Upper Silesia, is named after him.
Works
Of his numerous works, which, in the sense of conservative Judaism, have contributed much to the enlightenment of literature and history, the following should be mentioned:
- the translation and explanation of the Psalms (Berlin 1835);
- Voices from the Jordan and Euphrates (Berlin 1852, 2nd edition 1868);
- Contributions to linguistic and antiquity research (Berlin 1852–54, 2 volumes, dealing with the relations between the Greco-Roman world and Talmudic - Midrashian literature);
- The religious poetry of the Jews in Spain (Berlin 1845);
- the translation of the Israelite festival prayers ( Machsor ) and the prayer book ( Siddur ).
A selection of his sermons appeared in two volumes (Berlin 1866-69), edited by David Rosin . Sachs translated 15 books for Zunz's Bible translation.
literature
- David Kaufmann : Sachs, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 131-133.
- Franz D. Lucas; Heike Frank: Michael Sachs - the conservative middle ground: the life and work of the Berlin rabbi at the time of emancipation. Tübingen 1992. ISBN 3-16-145888-5
- Margit Schad: Rabbi Michael Sachs: Judaism as a higher view of life (Netiva 7). Hildesheim u. a. 2007. ISBN 978-3-487-13415-4 (review by G. Pelger)
- Entry SACHS, Michael, 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. 763ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Sachs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article by Michael Sachs In: compactmemory.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachs, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großglogau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1864 |
| Place of death | Berlin |