David Kaufmann

David Kaufmann ( born June 7, 1852 in Kojetein, Moravia, † July 6, 1899 in Carlsbad) (Hebrew דוד קויפמן ) was a teaching in Budapest Jewish scientists with a broad historical and philosophical research. He was known primarily for the launched by him correspondence network of Jewish scholars.

Life

From 1861 to 1867 Kaufmann attended high school in Kremsier. There he studied Bible and Talmud with Jacob howler, the rabbi of Kojetein, and with his son Nehemiah.

Since 1867, he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, and studied at the same time at the University of Breslau. In the summer of 1875 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. On January 29, 1877 his ordination was as a rabbi. The offer of a professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, he did not accept. Instead, he became professor of history, religion, philosophy, and homiletics at the newly established rabbinical seminary at Budapest. There he taught until his death in 1899. Issued the next instruction in Greek and German at the Budapest elementary school he was in the rapidly learned from him the Hungarian language.

As a librarian at the seminary, he acquired the large library of Lelio Della Torre of Padua. Thus, the seminar library was one of the richest European collections of Hebrew literature. As a teacher, Kaufmann was very successful; his relationship with the students was that of a friendly counselor. He led a lively correspondence with the most important Jewish scholars ( from this arose the " merchant's intelligence service " -called network) and also important researchers from other disciplines. He was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Madrid and member of the Alliance Israelite Universelle Budapest. Kaufmann died on July 6, 1899 in Carlsbad, Bohemia.

Works

Kaufmann's publications are versatile; the bibliography of his studies ( created by M. Brann for the memorial book to the memory of David Kaufmann, ed. M. Brann and F. Rosenthal, Breslau 1900) includes 546 titles from all areas of Jewish studies. His first and most important works include studies on the philosophy of religion, including:

• The theology of Bahya ibn Pakuda, author of חובות הלבבות, a competition essay he wrote as a student at the seminary ( in Reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1874)
• History of the attributes of teaching in the Jewish religious philosophy of the Middle Ages by Saadia to Maimonides ( Gotha 1877-78 ), his major work. It covered important aspects of Jewish and Arab religious philosophy of the Middle Ages.
• The traces al - Batlajusi 's in the Jewish philosophy of religion. In addition to an issue of the Heb. Translation of His pictorial circles (Budapest 1880 also in Hungarian)
• The senses. Contributions to the history of physiology and psychology in medieval times. For Hebrew and Arabic sources (Budapest 1884, also in Hungarian)
• Publication of Minḥat Ḳena'ot of Jehiel ben Samuel Pisa ( Berlin 1898, part of the Meḳiẓe Nirdamim - Sammling )
• Solomon ibn Gabirol studies (Budapest 1899, also in Hungarian)
• A large number of articles in various journals, including The Leader 's Maimonides in the literature of the world ( Reprinted from the Archives of the History of Philosophy, ed. L. Stein, 11/ 3).

Contributions to the History of Judaism

Kaufmann's most important monographs are:

• The last expulsion of the Jews from Vienna, you have a history ( 1625-70 ) and your victim (Vienna 1889, also in Hungarian) ( In the annual report of the state - school rabbi in Budapest, in 1889 in the Google Book Search USA)
• The History of Jewish Families: Samson Wertheimer, who Oberhof Factor and rabbi, 1658-1724, and His children (Vienna 1888)
• Urkundliches from the life of Samson Wertheimer (Budapest 1891 also in Hungarian)
• The families of Prague by the epitaphs of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Compiled by Simon Hock, from Its Discounts Conditions Edited, with Notes and Biographical accidentally initiated by Prof. Dr. D. Kaufmann (Hebrew title page, Bratislava 1892)
• On the history of Jewish families: I., R. Jair Hayyim Bacharach, 1638-1702, and His Ancestry (Trier 1894)
• Dr. Israel Conegliano and His Services to the Republic Venedigbis after the peace of Carlowitz (Budapest 1895, also in Hungarian)
• The storming of the oven and you have a history after reports Isaac schoolyard [ Megillat oven ], 1650-1732; Edited and Introduced Biographical (Trier 1895)
• From Heinrich Heine 's ancestral hall (Breslau 1896)
• The Memoirs of Glückel of Hamelin (Frankfurt / Main 1896 edition of the Western Yiddish original text )
• The Chronicle of Ahimaaz from Oria ( Reprinted from the " monthly" 1896).

For Jewish Art

Kaufmann treated as the first art history of the Jewish synagogue. This range includes the following books:

• On the history of art in the synagogues (Vienna 1897)
• History of the Jewish manuscripts illustration ( contribution to special edition of The Haggadah of Sarajevo, ed. DH Müller and I. v. Schlossar, Vienna 1898)
• Sens et Origines of the symbol Tumulaires de l' Ancien Testament dans l'Art Chrétien Primitif ( REJ xiv. 33, 217).

Polemical writings

Among his polemical writings:

• A word in confidence to Mr. Hofprediger horse mackerel by One Whose name nothing to the point Thut (Berlin 1880)
• Paul de Lagarde 's Jewish scholarship (Leipzig 1887), a defense of his friend and teacher Zunz
• How We Raise The Religious Sense of Our girls and women (Trier 1893)
• Introduction to S. Heller The Real Hebrew Melodies ( Trier 1893)

Kaufmann's library

Kaufmann was also an active member of Meḳiẓe Nirdamim, a Society for the Publication old Hebrew manuscripts. He had a large library with many valuable manuscripts, incunabula and first editions. The acquired from him Marco Mortara library formed their core elements.