Marx Hayum Seligsberg

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Gravestone at the Jewish cemetery in Fellheim

Marx Hayum Seligsberg (born July 3, 1799 in Baiersdorf , † November 19, 1877 in Fellheim ) was a German rabbi and author of moral and religious writings.

Life

Marx Hayum Seligsberg (also: Markus Heimann Seligsberger and other spellings) was born - like Rabbis Hirsch Aub and Joseph Aub - in Baiersdorf in Middle Franconia, where he also attended elementary school. He studied with Wolf Hamburger at the Yeschiwa (Talmud University ) in Fürth and then went on to study Latin and French at the philosophy faculty of the University of Erlangen . Here he received his doctorate in the field of "rabbinical theology" in 1825 with the dissertation "De Salomonis aetate rebusque gestis ad explicanda regum" and in 1827 passed the state examination in Ansbach . In 1828 he applied for employment as a rabbi in Bayreuth , but was not considered: Joseph Aub received the position. After an equally unsuccessful application to Fürth, he was finally appointed rabbi of the Jewish community in Fellheim in 1830 to succeed Joel Nathan Seligmann . In 1836 the community had a new Jewish school built in the vicinity of the synagogue. In the same year he took part in the Ansbach district synod, in which his former teacher Hamburger, who had already been banned from teaching in 1830, appeared as the spokesman for the Fürth Orthodox. In 1852 his application for a job in the Bohemian municipality of Groß-Meseritsch was rejected. Around 1870, Seligsberg looked after Fellheim as well as the communities Illereichen -Altenstadt, Osterberg , Memmingen and Kempten . However, the relationship with the community was tense. In 1835, among other things, there was an indictment before the Illertissen district court by the community leaders Heinrich Einstein, Samuel Schwab and Joseph Rosenthal for inadequate administration, neglect of poor relief and embezzlement of funds - which Seligsberg strongly objected - as well as tumult during his sermons.

Shortly after taking office, Seligsberg married Sophie Seligmann (1803 - October 28, 1845), daughter of his predecessor, in Fellheim, and had nine children with her. Among other things, the son Arnold was born in 1832 , who passed the graduation test (Abitur) in Munich in 1850 at the Maximiliansgymnasium , which his younger brother Wilhelm also attended. Three sons emigrated to the USA . After Sophie's death, he married Therese Heilbronner (1814–1887) from Buchau in Württemberg in 1848 . He died at the age of 78 in Fellheim, where he was buried in the Jewish cemetery . After his death, the Fellheim rabbinate was subordinated to the Augsburg district rabbinate .

In addition to his work as a rabbi and religion teacher, Seligsberg wrote numerous “moral-religious” and theological writings.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Salomonis aetate rebusque gestis ad explicanda regum Cap. III et XI. Pars I. Kunstmann, Erlangen 1825 (23 pages).
  • Mekor Chaijim (מקור חיים). Religious and moral lectures. 1841
  • Sede Chajjim (שדה חגים): field of life. 1845.
  • Ir Miklat (עיר מקלט). The place of refuge, a moral-religious script for edification. In Hebrew and German. Rödelheim 1846.
  • The source of life (מקור החיים). 4 parts. Rödelheim 1847.
  • Moral lectures on the 5 books of Moses. Self-published, Fellheim 1854.
  • Moral considerations on domestic edification for all classes and all confessions. 3 parts. Self-published, Fellheim 1851–1853.
  • 'Or Thorah (או ת'ורה), Vol. I, Homilies and Explanations on the Pentateuch. Frankfurt a. M. 1859, T. II, Explanations on the five Megilloth. Leipzig 1860; T. III: Explanations on the Haftaroth. Frankfurt a. M. 1863.
  • Kos Tanhumim (קוס תנחומים). Words on occasions of mourning. Frankfurt a. M. 1863.

literature

  • Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (ed.): Biographical manual of the rabbis in the German Empire. The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. KG Saur, Munich 2004, pp. 387, 399, 808-809 (1654 Seligsberg).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of matriculation: April 9, 1824, in: The number of employees at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen in its first century. CH Kunstmann, Erlangen 1843, p. 216: "Seligsberg, Marx Heuum" [sic!]
  2. ↑ Monika Kötter and Ellen Schug: Directory of the Erlangen PhDs 1743–1885 - OPUS 4, University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg (Ed.), Erlangen 2009, ISBN 978-3-941871-00-7 , p. 334. Digitized
  3. ↑ The Jewish school was acquired by the Christian community in 1911 and used as a school building; today the town hall of Fellheim
  4. ↑ on the Ansbach district synod 1836 cf. Simon Dubnow: The Recent History of the Jewish People (1789-1914). 1st volume. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1920, p. 56 ff.
  5. ↑ Brocke / Carlebach, p. 411
  6. ↑ MHSeligsberg: consecrated to the men of my beloved wife Sophie Seligsberg, née Seligmann. in: Moreh derekh. The guide to a better life. The source of life, T. 4. 1847
  7. ↑ Annual report for the k.Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1849/50
  8. ↑ Text example: “The duty of friendship includes: the correction of the friend; because the highest level of friendship is not to make a friend aware of our mistakes, but rather to make his / her noticeable. "(Moreh derekh. The guide to a better life. The source of life, T. 4. 1847, p. 101)
  9. ↑ M'kor Hayim, display in: Allgemeine Zeitung of Judaism from July 16, 1842
personal data
SURNAME Seligsberg, Marx Hayum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seligsberg, Markus Heimann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Baiersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1877
Place of death Fellheim