Samuel Ephraim Meyer

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Samuel Ephraim Meyer (born March 2, 1819 in Hanover ; died July 6, 1882 there ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Central honorary grave with memorial stone of the synagogue community for the land rabbi Meyer and his wife by the company WA Bleckert at the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede ;
here before the grave was tended in 2005

Samuel Ephraim was the son of the banker and community leader Ephraim Meyer , grandson of the rabbi Samuel Levi ( Gelnhausen ) and brother of Louis Ephraim Meyer .

After studying the Talmud in Hanover and Frankfurt , he was of Nathan Adler ordained . Meyer studied philosophy at the University of Bonn from April 29, 1839 to the summer semester of 1841 , where he received his doctorate.

In 1845 Meyer was elected Hanoverian land rabbi and was also the local rabbi of Hanover. Meyer continued the reforms of the Jewish communities and their institutions introduced by his predecessor Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890). He was a supporter of the conservative rabbi Zacharias Frankel .

Under Meyer's direction was

  • Founded the Jewish teachers' seminar in 1847 ("Educational Institute for Jewish Teachers"),
  • 1854 school regulations for Jewish schools and
  • In 1860 the general synagogue order was introduced,
  • In 1864 the Jewish cemetery was laid out on the Strangriede and
  • The New Synagogue was built in 1870 .

Meyer strongly advocated the legal equality of Jews in the Kingdom of Hanover . Beyond the Hanover community he was committed to the unity of Judaism according to the motto: "Peace, peace for what is far and near."

Until 1862 he lived and officiated in the Dachenhausenpalais in the Calenberger Neustadt . After the Prussian annexation in 1866 , he successfully campaigned for the maintenance of the state rabbinate system. After his decision in the "Thorner case" , which concerned the question of the synagogue status of children from mixed marriages, he was instructed not to hold any more canonical office.

He was married to Lina (nee Sießkind) and had fifteen children with her.

Samuel Ephraim Meyer is buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede, which he created. His grave is now the oldest honorary grave in the cemetery.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Hannoversche Biographie. Vol. 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Hanover 1914, p. 357.
  • The Jewish Encyclopedia. A descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the jewish people form the earliest times. Ed. by Isidore Singer, New York 1901-1906; Vol. 8, p. 527.
  • Peter Schulze : Contributions to the history of the Jews in Hanover (= Hannoversche Studies , Vol. 6), Hanover 1998, pp. 81-101.
  • Peter Schulze: Meyer, (10) Samuel. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p.?.
  • Peter Schulze: Meyer, (10) Samuel Ephraim. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 441.
  • Entry MEYER, Samuel, 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. 664f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry MEYER, Samuel, 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. 664f.
  2. ↑ Peter Schulze: Meyer, (3) Ephraim. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 252.
  3. ^ Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History, Volume 60 . A. Lax, 1988, p. 404 .
  4. ^ Peter Schulze: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Hanover, Volume 6 of Hanoverian studies . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4956-7 .
  5. ^ Entry Meyer, Samuel Ephraim in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-8426-8207-8 , p. 441 .
  6. ↑ Renate Rocholl, Gertrud Wedell, Eberhard George Wedell: From the blessing of faith: Notes on the life and work of Gertrud and Hans Wedell Volume 7 of writings of the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (Düsseldorf) . Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, 1995, ISBN 3-930250-06-3 , p. 2 .
  7. ↑ Michael Brocke, Christiane E. Müller: House of Life: Jewish cemeteries in Germany . Reclam, 2001, ISBN 3-379-00777-3 , pp. 191 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Samuel Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1882
Place of death Hanover