Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg

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Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg (1773-1853)

Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg (born October 16, 1773 in Braunschweig ; died October 21, 1853 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German reform pedagogue and director of the Jewish Samson School in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

The third son of Rabbi Meyer Halle (1725–1799) and his wife Hale, b. Landau (1741-1818) grew up in Braunschweig, where his father had moved from Frankfurt am Main to open a factory. Economic difficulties in the 1770s forced the father to make the modest family livelihood as a lottery collector and small trader. Samuel received traditional lessons of scripture and the Talmud . Through the mediation of his godfather, the chamber agent Herz Samson , he attended the Orthodox religious school in Wolfenbüttel founded by his brother Philipp Samson from 1789 to 1794 . He then worked as an educator in Brandenburg, Berlin and Peine . Between 1797 and 1802 he taught as a private tutor in Hanover Meyer Samson, the son of Herz Samson. He interrupted his educational work from 1803 to 1806 and worked for Israel Jacobson , the founder of the Seesen Jacobson School , as a businessman in various German cities. Ehrenberg is considered one of the leaders of Reform Judaism in northwest Germany.

Director of the Samson School

In 1807, on the recommendation of Isaac Herz Samson, he received the position of director, called inspectorate, of the Wolfenbüttel Samson School. In a short time he redesigned the school in line with Reform Judaism based on the Jacobson School. Isaak Markus Jost and Leopold Zunz were among Ehrenberg's best-known students . Zunz, sponsored by Ehrenberg, remained on friendly terms with him until the end of his life. Zunz wrote a biography of Ehrenberg in 1854 and reported on the development of the Samson School:

However, from such ... efforts, especially in the thirties by the current director, a changed direction and purpose of the institution gradually emerged, so that the educational institution, which was originally a Talmud school with a few tolerated subjects, later became a scientific school with a tolerated Talmud, has become one Citizen school without Talmud became. In the first epoch Ehrenberg was the pupil of the institute, in the second the executive director, in the third the collaborative manner.

Ehrenberg headed the Samson School until 1846. His son Philipp Ehrenberg (1811-1883) followed him as director until 1871.

family

He was married to Henriette, born in Kassel , since 1808 . Meuse. The daughter Amalie (1822–1885) was married to the chemist Louis Rosenzweig. His grandchildren are Richard Ehrenberg and Victor Ehrenberg

Ehrenberg died in Wolfenbüttel in 1853 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery there, where his grave has been preserved.

Ehrenberg's students donated a silver cup to mark his 25th anniversary with him. This object was brought out again and again when a wedding was to be celebrated in the family branches of Rosenzweig or Ehrenberg that came from him .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Ewiges Haus , p. 91
  2. ↑ Miriam Gebhardt: The family memory: Memory in the German-Jewish bourgeoisie 1890 to 1932 , 1999, p. 202
  3. ↑ see Rudolf Ehrenberg , Die Becherrede, 1920, in Kalonymos 20, 1, 2017, pp. 1ff.
  4. ↑ On pages 1 and 2 of the booklet the wedding cup is shown in large size, together with 2 related documents in Sütterlin script (also online)
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenberg, Samuel Meyer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrenberg, Samuel Mayer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and school director
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1853
Place of death Wolfenbüttel