Simon Kayserling
Simon Kayserling (also: Simon Abraham Kayserling ; born August 31, 1834 in Hanover ; died April 22, 1898 there ) was a German educator and translator .
Life
Simon Abraham Kayserling was born into a Jewish family in what was then the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover . He was a son of the businessman Abraham Jakob Kayserling and the Ester or Emma (died 1856). His brother was the historian and rabbi Meyer Kayserling , his sister-in-law a daughter of the rabbi and editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , Ludwig Philippson (1811-1889).
Simon Kayserling attended the Talmud School in Würzburg and the University of Berlin . From 1861 he was employed as the main teacher and inspector of the Hanoverian Meyer-Michael-David'schen free school . He also taught for several years at the Jewish teacher seminar in Hanover .
Translations
Kayserling translated the French version corrected by Joachim Lelewel by Josef Israel Benjamin Yewen Meẓulah (Hanover, 1863), an account of the Polish-Cossack war and the suffering of the Jews in Poland from 1648 to 1653. He also translated Frederick David Mocattas The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Inquisition (Spain, 1878).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Isidore Singer : Kayerling, Isidore (in English), in: Jewish Encyclopedia , online at jewishencyclopedia.com
- ↑ a b c d e Hans Lamm : Kayserling, Meyer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 386 ( digitized version ).
- ^ A b Robert Uri Kaufmann : Meyer Kayserling. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 7, 2007. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kayserling, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kayserling, Simon Abraham (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish educator and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1898 |
| Place of death | Hanover |