Isaac Heinemann

Isaak Heinemann (rarely also: Isaac Heinemann; born June 5, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main, † July 29, 1957 in Jerusalem) was a classical philologist, Jewish scholar and philosopher of religion and a supporter of the community orthodoxy.

Life

Isaac Heinemann 1919-1938 Lecturer in philosophy of religion of antiquity and the Middle Ages in Breslau on Jewish Theological Seminary, from 1930 to 1933 at the same time in Wroclaw Honorary Professor of Hellenism at the local university. After the death of Brann he was since 1920 (until 1938 ) the editor of the monthly magazine of history and science of Judaism.

In 1938 he was forced to emigrate and was from 1939 professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

One focus of his research were Hellenistic issues, particularly Philo, whose works he published 1910-1938 in German translation, together with Leopold Cohn in 7 volumes.

In 1955 the Israel Prize in the category of Jewish Studies.

Writings (selection )

• From the philosophical faculty of the University of Berlin award-winning thesis project about Solon, 1896
• Time issues in the light of Jewish view of life, 1921
• Poseidonioi, 2 volumes, 1921 and 1928
• The doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Judaism and in the Gospels, 1923
• From the Jewish spirit, a word to the honest among his accusers, 1924
• The concept of the superman in Jewish Philosophy of Religion, 1925
• Messianism and mystery religion 1925
• The doctrine of the purpose of the people in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Jewish Middle Ages, 1926
• Philo's Jewish and Greek education, 1926
• Darkhe ha - Aggadah, 1949
• Ta'ame Ha - Mitsvot be - Yisrael Sifrut, 2 volumes (1942, 1956)