Moses Aquarius

Moses (von) Wassermann (born on July 15, 1811 in Gunzenhausen , according to other information in Ansbach ; died on October 18, 1892 in Stuttgart ) was a rabbi and councilor of the Jewish upper church authority in Stuttgart.

family

Moses Wassermann was the son of Salomon Wassermann (* 1780), a private scholar in Ansbach , district rabbi in Laupheim and Mergentheim , and Bertha nee Weißkopf. His mother was the aunt of the Wallerstein rabbi David Weißkopf .

Life

Moses Wassermann grew up in Laupheim and attended high school in Ulm . He had Talmud lessons in Ansbach and private Latin lessons with Ludwig Feuerbach . He studied from 1827 to 1829 at the yeshiva of Chief Rabbi Abraham Bing in Würzburg. At the same time he pursued private philological studies.

From 1829 he studied philosophy at the University of Würzburg , from 1830 theology , philosophy and languages at the University of Tübingen , among others with Ludwig Uhland . In May 1832 he received his doctorate on the "categories". Then he went to his parents in Laupheim.

In April 1834 Wassermann passed the Württemberg state examination. In 1834 he was appointed rabbinical administrator in Mergentheim . In 1835 he also became rabbinate administrator in Mühringen . In 1837 he was permanently employed as rabbi in the Mühringen district rabbinate in Mühringen. In 1873 he became a rabbi in Stuttgart at the district rabbinate and held this office until 1882. At the same time he became a theological member of the Israelite Higher Church Authority of Württemberg .

Wassermann worked for Julius Fürst's magazine Der Orient (1847–1850) .

Moses Wassermann was raised to the personal nobility by the King of Württemberg as Moses von Wassermann . He received the Order of the Crown, First Class.

Works

• About the categories and the way in which they must be understood. A philosophical treatise. Dissertation Tübingen 1832.
• Under the pseudonym "Orientalis": The girl from Chaibar. Novel from the life of Muhammad. Stuttgart 1859.
• True love. Three stories. Stuttgart 1863.
  • New edition under the title: Three stories for the more mature youth. Erfurt 1883, contains:
    • Paule, the sack artist.
    • The brave cousin.
    • Help at the right time.
• Respect the children of the poor. Narrative. Achawa yearbook 1866.
• Judah Touro . A gentleman of Semitic descent. Biographical novel. Two volumes, Stuttgart 1875–1877.

literature

• The Israelite. Central organ for Orthodox Judaism. Mainz 1861, p. 232.
• David Chaim Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–1881, p. 517.
• Meyer Kayserling (ed.): Library of Jewish pulpit speakers. A chronological collection of the sermons, biographies, and characteristics of the finest Jewish preachers. Volume II, Berlin 1872, p. 270.
• Meyer Kayserling: The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. In: Jakob Winter and August Wünsche (editor): The Jewish literature since the end of the canon. Vol. III, 1896, p. 889.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi) 1925–1931, Volume VI, p. 217.
• Heinz Högerle: From the history of the Rabbinate Mühringen . Moses of Aquarius; Rabbi, writer, philanthropist . In: Support and Friends of the Former Rexingen Synagogue : Messages, 2003.
• Aaron Dancer: The History of the Jews in Württemberg. 1937, pp. 47, 75 (reprinted in Frankfurt am Main 1983).
• Theodor Schott:  Wassermann, Moses . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 235 f.
• Entry AQUARIUS, Moses [from], 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. 879f.