Seligmann Grünwald

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Seligmann Grünwald ( July 23, 1800 in Mühringen - May 12, 1856 in Freudental ) was a rabbi and author .

Life

Seligmann Grünwald was the son of Samson Joseph Grünwald, head of the Mühringen Israelite community , and Jeanette Grünwald, born in Stuttgart. Until 1816 he was taught by private teachers and by the Mühringer rabbi.

He studied for three years at the Talmud University in Fürth and undertook private studies in high school subjects. He received the diploma of the Fürth Bet Din . In December 1820, he completed the preliminary academic examination in Stuttgart. After that he taught secular subjects to the Mühringer yeshiva students for two years. Ann the universities of Würzburg (1822/23) and Tübingen (1825/26) he studied for one year each, in Tübingen as the first student in Mosaic theology there. On November 2, 1827, he passed the state examination in Stuttgart, the second state examination on January 3, 1835.

In 1830 he married Sara Flehinger (1809–1837), daughter of Rabbi Veit Flehinger in Bretten, after whose death her sister Lina Flehinger (born 1812). They had six children from their first marriage, four of whom died very early, before their mother. The eldest son, Samson (born 1831), and the second daughter Caroline (born 1832) survived the first years of life.

From 1825 he was rabbinate locum tenens and district rabbi in Braunsbach . In Lehrensteinsfeld he worked as a district rabbi from 1834 to 1844 and from 1844 came to the Jewish community in Freudental as a district rabbi , where he died in 1856.

He advocated the Jewish colonization of Palestine .

Works

  • The beliefs and moral teachings of the Talmud, together with explanations of the Holy Scriptures, compiled in Talmudic excerpts and translated into German. Johann Ulrich Landherr, Heilbronn and Leipzig 1854 ( online edition ).

Web links

literature

  • Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 11), pp. 69–70.
  • Entry GRÜNWALD, Seligmann. 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 , p. 388 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Israel's comfort and hope. Sermon on July 31, 1841, became part of an address to Moses Montefiore
personal data
SURNAME Grünwald, Seligmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühringen
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1856
Place of death Freudental