Sigismund Stern

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Sigismund Stern (born July 2, 1812 in Karge , Posen Province ; † December 9, 1867 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Jewish educator and writer .

Life

Sigismund Stern was born in July 1812 as the son of a Jewish merchant in the small Prussian town of Karge, now Kargowa. In his early youth he devoted himself to the study of the Talmud , attended the Gymnasium in Groß-Glogau and later the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin, from which he graduated at Easter 1831. He then studied philosophy and education at the University of Berlin . His teachers were u. a. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Friedrich Schleiermacher . In the autumn of 1834, Stern received his doctorate with the work Preliminary Foundation for a Philosophy of Language . After completing his studies, on July 1, 1835, he became a teacher at the “Higher School and Pension Institute for Boys” in Berlin. Here he succeeded Isaak Markus Jost , who had recently moved to the philanthropist in Frankfurt am Main.

Sigismund Stern was an advocate and founder of liberal Judaism . With his lectures on “the task of Judaism” given at the beginning of 1845, he achieved a broad impact in Berlin and beyond. The lectures were an essential impetus for founding the “Cooperative for the Reform of Judaism”, which later became the “ Jewish Reform Community of Berlin ”. In 1844, Sigismund Stern took part in the rabbinical assembly in Frankfurt am Main as spokesman for the Berlin Jewish community .

The Jewish Reform Community in Berlin also gave Stern the presidency. In this capacity he revised the prayer book, organized the service and at the same time, after leaving his pension institution, was a teacher at the religious school founded by the reform cooperative. He was for his reform ideas u. a. through “lectures on the history of Judaism” and “the religion of Judaism”.

In 1852 he published a collection of numerous biographies a. a. by Louis-Philippe I , Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Lajos Kossuth , Giuseppe Mazzini , Alphonse de Lamartine , Heinrich von Gagern , Archduke Johann of Austria as well as essays on the social movement, the religious movement, the revolution, the constituent assemblies, the people and the military dictatorship. The publication is a summary of 22 deliveries that have been made since 1851.

In 1855 he succeeded Michael Hess as director of Philanthropin , the secondary school of the Israelite community in Frankfurt am Main. Here he developed an intensive educational and writing activity. He presented his concept of a pedagogical school reform to the public in the “program booklets” of the institution from 1855 to 1867. He participated u. a. as a member of the general German teachers' meeting. In numerous speeches he promoted his liberal view of Judaism.

Sigismund Stern was a member of the legislative body of the Free City of Frankfurt .

Sigismund Stern died in Frankfurt am Main at the age of only 55. He had been married to Ida Fürstenberg from Berlin since February 1836. The marriage resulted in a son and six daughters, including the daughter Rosa Stern.

Publications

  • 1835: Preliminary foundation for a philosophy of language, Berlin. [1]
  • 1840: Textbook of General Grammar,
  • 1845: History of Judaism and the Jews in the Present. Eight lectures held in Berlin, January 15 to March 12, 1845, Berlin. [2]
  • 1845: The current movement in Judaism, its justification and its significance, Berlin.
  • 1850: The history of the German people in the years 1848 and 1849. In twelve lectures (held in Berlin), Berlin.
  • 1852: The contemporaries. History of the Present in Comparative Biographies, Berlin.
  • 1853: The Religion of Judaism, Berlin. [3]
  • 1855: Stone and its age. A fragment from the history of Prussia and Germany in the years 1804–1815, Leipzig.
  • 1857: History of Judaism from Mendelssohn to the present day, along with an introductory survey of religious and cultural history, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1859: The female profession and education for the same, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1860: Habsburg and Hohenzollern, Austria and Prussia in their relationship to Germany and to the interests of the German nation, Berlin.
  • 1867: Home education, Leipzig.

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SURNAME Stern, Sigismund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Kargowa
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1867
Place of death Frankfurt am Main