Samson Gunzenhauser

Samson Gunzenhauser (born March 21, 1830 in Binswangen ; died February 13, 1893 in Mergentheim ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Samson Gunzenhauser was born in 1830 in Binswangen near Dillingen on the Danube , as the son of Rabbi Isak Hirsch Gunzenhauser and Esther Fränkels. The rural community had a Jewish community with a small Jewish cemetery since the early 17th century . He had Talmud lessons with Abraham Adler in Aschaffenburg and with Seligmann Bär Bamberger in Würzburg . Until 1850 he attended high school in Dillingen. From 1850 to 1852 he studied in Würzburg and from 1852 to 1853 in Munich . He was ordained by Hirsch Aub in Munich on November 22, 1853 . Then he came back to Binswangen, where he did further studies with his father. In December 1854 he passed the state examination in Augsburg .

Gunzenhauser was district rabbi in Reckendorf from 1855 , rabbinate administrator in the Jewish community of Buttenhausen near Münsingen on the Swabian Alb in 1859 and district rabbi there from 1860. In 1867 he became the district rabbi in Mergentheim as the successor to Rabbi Max Sänger, who had taken up a position in Hamburg.

Gunzenhauser was married, but widowed soon after the wedding.

Samson Gunzenhauser died in February 1893 at the age of almost 63 while attending a funeral. He was buried in the Mergentheim Jewish Cemetery.

Publications

• Divrē Tōrāh. Reflections on the Bible and our wise sayings in sermons. Stuttgart 1863. New edition under the title:
• Short and good! Twenty sermons for feasts, sabbaths and occasions. For use by preachers, prayer leaders, and teachers in smaller churches. Schletter'sche Buchhandlung, Breslau 1870 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).

literature

• 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.
• Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.), 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. 1. Volume, Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 399 f.