Hermann Strack

Hermann Leberecht Strack ( born May 6, 1848 in Berlin, † October 5, 1922 ) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.

Life

Strack was the son of the Vice-Rector of the Royal Realschule in Berlin Max Lebrecht Strack and his wife Emilie force. He had attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin and studied from 1865 to 1870 in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1872 he became a teacher at the Wilhelms Gymnasium in Berlin and he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1872 as a doctor of philosophy. 1873 to 1876 he worked in St. Petersburg with scientific work. In 1877 he was associate professor of Old Testament exegesis at the University of Berlin. In 1884 he received the theological doctorate at the University of Leipzig.

He was a leading figure in Germany in the field of rabbinic literature and had studied with Moritz Steinschneider. After the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany, he became a champion of the defense of the Jews against attacks from the likes of the court preacher Adolf Stoecker, Professor Rohling and others. 1885 Strack became the editor of Nathanael. Journal for the work of the Evangelical Church of Israel, which was published in Berlin. In 1883 he founded the " Institutum Judaicum " whose goal was the conversion of Jews to Christianity.

At the beginning of his career the Prussian government sent Strack to St. Petersburg to examine the Bible manuscripts there. On this occasion he examined also the antiquities of Firkowitsch Collection ( Rabbi Abraham Firkowitsch ( 1786-1874 ) was a collector of manuscripts and amateur archeologist ), which he described as a forgery.

Since 1886, Strack worked with Otto Zöckler on the publication of the short Condensed commentary on the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments ( Nördlingen and Munich). Strack advised the editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Strack was one of the few German Protestant theologian who actively turned away even after the First World War against anti-Semitism. In his book Jewish secret laws? he showed that the Jewish religious laws were publicly over and nothing has been concealed and that the Jewish ethics do not allow that Jews over non - Jews behave in a way that was against Jews not allowed. Strack refuted anti-Semitic writings, such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other anti-Semitic publications of his time.

Works (selection)

  • Prolegomena Critica in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum. Leipzig 1873
  • Catalogue of Hebräschen Bible manuscripts in the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg and Leipzig 1875, with Abraham Harkavy Zusammenerabeit
  • Prophetarum Posteriorum Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus. 1876
  • Firkowitsch Abraham and his discoveries. 1876
  • Output of various Mischnatraktate: Abot. Karlsruhe in 1882, 2nd edition: Berlin 1888
  • Yoma. 1888
  • Abodah Zarah. 1888
  • Shabbat. 1890

Literature (selection )

  • Ralf Golling, Peter von der Osten -Sacken (ed.): Hermann L. Strack and Institutum Judaicum in Berlin. With an appendix on the Institute Church and Judaism. Berlin 1996.
  • Eduard Rupprecht: The mystery of the five book of Moses and his false solution. A series of critical individual studies and testimonials - A contribution to the solution of a burning question biblical period with in-depth consideration of the source of divorce Dr. Strack. Gütersloh 1894.
  • Christof Dahm: STRACK, Hermann Leberecht. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6, Sp 4-8. (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )
  • Who's Who 1908. Degener 1908, p 1350
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