Salomon Ludwig Steinheim

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Salomon Ludwig Steinheim

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim (pseudonym: Abadjah Ben Amos ) (born August 6, 1789 in Bruchhausen , † May 19, 1866 in Zurich ) was a German physician, Jewish religious philosopher and scholar.

Life

Steinheim grew up in Bruchhausen. In 1804 he came to Altona , where he attended the Christianeum until 1807. He then began to study medicine in Berlin and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1811 in Kiel Dr. med. First he was a doctor from 1813 near his birthplace in Steinheim , then he worked in Altona until 1845. In 1827 he founded a river bathing establishment in the Elbe between Neumühlen and Altona with the Altona merchant and later first director of the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Carl Theodor Arnemann . Then he traveled. Since 1833 he pursued philosophical and theological studies. From 1854 he lived in Rome for a long time, traveled to Copenhagen and in 1865 and 1866 to Zurich. He died on this last trip and was buried in the Reformed Cemetery. Altona friends had his body transferred to the place where he had worked for many years in 1866.

As a writer, Steinheim campaigned for the emancipation of the Jews in (Danish) Schleswig and Holstein . His main theological work is The Revelation based on the synagogue's doctrinal concept , written from 1835 to 1865. He was an independent thinker who did not fit into the traditional Jewish scheme of orthodoxy or the reform movement.

He died in Zurich's Oberstrass in 1866 .

Honors

The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen , which researches German-Jewish history, is named after him. The street “Steinheimplatz” in the Hamburg district of Altona is also named after him. These names emphasize that he is an unjustly forgotten philosopher of the 19th century.

literature

  • Jutta Dick, Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): Salomon Ludwig Steinheim and Johanna Steinheim. Letters (= Haskala. Scientific treatises. Vol. 9). Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-10158-0 .
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 294.
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 777.
  • Hans-Joachim Schoeps (Ed.): Salomon Ludwig Steinheim in memory. An anthology. Brill, Leiden 1966.
  • Julius H. Schoeps, Anja Bagel-Bohlan, Margret Heitmann and Dieter Lohmeier (eds.): "Philo of the 19th Century". Studies on Salomon Ludwig Steinheim (= Haskala. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Vol. 4). Olms, Hildesheim 1993, ISBN 3-487-09538-6
  • Aharon Shear-Yashuv: Salomon Ludwig Steinheim, a German-Jewish polyhistor in the 19th century. In: Menorah. Yearbook for German-Jewish History . 1990, pp. 47-65.
  • Steinheim, Salomon Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 451-458 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hella Kemper: Elbschwimmer: the return of a bathing culture. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-938017-54-6 , p. 34, (online)
  2. ↑ Steinheimplatz in Altona
personal data
SURNAME Steinheim, Salomon Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abadjah Ben Amos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish physician, religious philosopher and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchhausen (Höxter)
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1866
Place of death Zurich