David Rosin

David Rosin ( born May 27, 1823 in Rosenberg ( Upper Silesia ), † December 31, 1894 in Breslau) was a Jewish scholar.

He received his early education from his father. He visited various yeshivot, most recently in Prague under Solomon Jehuda Löw Rapoport, one of the founding fathers of the science of Judaism. In Prague, he became friends with Michael Sachs, who encouraged him to strengthen the secular studies. So Rosin finally graduated from high school in 1846 in Breslau. Subsequently, he studied in Berlin and Halle, where he received his doctorate in 1851. On the recommendation of Sachs toward Rosin took over the management of the new Berlin Religious School and also taught at the teacher training college. In 1866 he moved to succeed Manuel Joël as professor of homiletics, exegesis and philosophy of religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. There he taught until his death, where he was most recently senior and chairman of the teachers Collegium.

Works

• A Compendium of Jewish legal knowledge from the fourteenth century. Breslau in 1871.
• The Ethics of Maimonides. Breslau 1876.
• R. Samuel b. Meir as writing explainer. Breslau 1880.
• Rhymes and poems of Abraham ibn Ezra. In: Annual Report of the Jewish Theological Seminary Fraenkel'scher Foundation. Wroclaw 1885, 1-48.
• Rhymes and poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra II: liturgical poetry. In: Annual Report of the Jewish Theological Seminary Fraenkel'scher Foundation. Wroclaw 1894, 1-48.