Solomon Löwisohn

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Solomon Löwisohn (also Loewysohn , Löwysohn , Levisohn and others; Hebrew שלמה לויזון, originally Salomon Moor; * 1789 in Moor , Hungary; † April 27, 1821 ibid) was a Hebraist and poet of the Enlightenment period .

Life

Solomon Löwisohn was first taught by his father, a traditional Talmudist , and also attended a monastery school. In 1809 he went to Prague, worked as a tutor and studied at the local yeshiva . The humorist Moses Saphir was among his classmates . After graduating in 1815, he became a proofreader in Anton Edler von Schmid's print shop in Vienna. After 1820 he became mentally ill, returned to Moor and died there the following year.

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His main work, Meliẓat Yeshurun (Poetry of Israel), is a treatise - the first of its kind - on rhetoric and poetry, in particular an aesthetic interpretation of the Bible as a poetic text (but also other texts, including a first translation of a Shakespeare passage), whereby rhetorical Stylistic devices (metaphors, irony, etc.) are analyzed and discussed. The work also offers its own poetic texts, in particular an opening hymn, an apotheosis of poetry.

Meḥḳere Ereẓ (Studies [of the topography] of the land [Palestine]) is the first Hebrew geographic guide to the Bible. It uses u. a. Information from Josephus, Eusebius, Pliny and Strabo and was also groundbreaking for the use of rabbinic sources.

He also worked on the Jewish liturgy and history of Judaism. His lectures on the modern history of the Jews were appreciated by Heinrich Graetz , the author of a standard work on the history of Judaism that has been authoritative for decades. Graetz writes a. a .: In it

“He knew how to roll up a captivating overall picture of it. He also highlighted individual significant points and correctly designated the end threads from which one must start out in this apparently chaotic jumble in order not to get lost. "

Works

  • Siḥah be-'Olam ha-Neshamot. Prague 1811.
  • Bet ha-Osef , Grammatical Notes, also on the Mishnah , Prague 1812 (also included in some of the Mishnah editions).
  • Meliẓat Yeshurun. Vienna 1816. Digitized in the Google book search USA , digitized in the Google book search
  • Seas Ereẓ. Vienna 1819.
    • German translation: Biblical Geography [...], Beck, Vienna 1821. Digitized in the Google book search
    • (Hebrew) revised and expanded ed. by Jacob Kaplan: Ereẓ kedumim . The Land of Antiquity or Biblical Description of the Earth in alphabetical order, 2 vols., Wilna 1839.
  • Contribution to the Mishnah edition of 1815
  • Lectures on the modern history of the Jews , Beck, Vienna 1820.
  • Investigationes linguae sive duo opera celebris Docti Pragensis Salomonis Lewisohn sub tituli Sicha Beolam Hanschamoth et Beth Haossef , Wilna 1849. Digitized in the Google book search, digitized in the Google book search.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EM Stern: Life sketch about Salomon Löwisohn [...]. In: The Orient. Volume 1, 1840, pp. 10–11, 11 ( Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.compactmemory.de  
  2. ↑ Part of it can also be found in literature in 1788, for example in Salomon Wininger : Große Jüdische National-Biographie. Volume 4, Cernăuţi 1930, p. 176.
  3. ↑ Article Löwisohn, Salomon. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 857.
  4. ↑ Menda-Levy 2010; Stern 1840, 11 speaks of 1811.
  5. ↑ Silberschlag, loc.cit. after Nahum Slouschz : The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) , engl. Translation by Henrietta Szold of La Renaissance de la Littérature Hebraïque (Paris 1902, also in a revised Hebrew version: Korot ha-Sifrut ha-Ìbrit ha-Hadashah , Tushiyah, Starovolski, Warsaw 1905-06), The Jewish Publication Society of America 1909 , P. 79 ( online ) is said to have been caused by an unhappy love affair. According to Stern 1840, 11 "the soulless, mechanical, even spirit-killing of this business" (the corrector) is the cause. After Menda-Levy in 2010, the unhappy love and the loss of the job at Schmid.
  6. ↑ Silver Strike, lc
  7. ↑ Silver Strike, lc
  8. ↑ Silver Strike, lc
  9. ↑ History of the Jews from the earliest times to the present. Leipzig 1900, Volume 11, p. 424, e-Text .
personal data
SURNAME Löwisohn, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewysohn, Solomon; Löwysohn, Solomon; Levisohn, Solomon; Moor, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hebrew and poet of the Enlightenment period
DATE OF BIRTH 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Moor , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1821
Place of death Moor , Hungary