Meyer Israel Bresselau

Meyer Israel Bresselau ( born April 25, 1785 Hamburg, † December 25, 1839 ) was a notary and Hamburgischer leading proponent of the Israelite Temple Association in Hamburg.

During the French occupation Bresselau in 1811 appointed as a notary. After 1814, he was - like all notaries appointed by the French - initially remained in office. The Council ordered him and his brother in faith Abraham Meldola with adoption of the new Notary order on February 23, 1816 back to the notary, although he, as a Jew the right of citizenship, which was after the withdrawal of the French after the new Notary order actually for an appointment to notary requirement, had lost. With Meldola, who had been appointed to the imperial notary before the French occupation in 1782, he formed a shared office.

He was a member of the Executive Board of the Temple Association, the Hamburg maintained a synagogue with Reformed order of prayer since 1818. He was with Seckel Isaac Frankel publisher of liturgical prayer book for the temple, " Seder ha Avodah ", Hamburg 1819. Against the criticism of this prayer book is Bresselau justified in "On the prayers of the Israelites in the national language ." The prayer book took on earlier versions, which came, among others, Eduard Kley. The usual, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem promoting the passages were not in the temple worship orders before or have been replaced by a reinterpretation of the German temple and justice for all peoples.

His work " Ḥerev noqemet něqam Berit " was a response of the collection " Elleh Devre ha - Berit ," Altona 1819, which summarized the views of important Orthodox rabbi to the Hamburg temple reform. Bresselaus response comprises 16 pages and is written in rhyming, biblical language and satirical character.

Bresselau was considered a good lawyer and expert in Semitic languages, especially Hebrew. 1824 Bresselau joined with six other leading members of the Temple Association at the Association for the Culture and Science of the Jews. He led a learned correspondence with its founder Leopold Zunz and had a collection of Hebraica He wrote a translation of Proverbs Ben Sirach from Syriac into Hebrew. It was located in 1925 as manuscript in the municipal library.

His notarial estate handed the Chamber of Notaries early 1840 the counterpart Eduard Schramm, of the revenues of the mandates announced Bresselaus widow the next ten years, which resulted from the estate acquisition. Since there is no Jewish notary longer existed after Bresselaus death, but the High Court the claim of the Jewish community to appoint a notary who was familiar with Jewish customs, rituals and rights for " worthy of notice and therefore cheap" considered, it asked the Council that the notary's order should be relaxed, "that is also a member of the local German Jewish community admissibile to notaries, or at least selected one of the notaries places sey ". Since the Council the need for a Jewish notary also recognized, he led the change in the notary's order in the way, and on September 25, 1840 Gabriel Sandriesser could be admitted as a notary notary exam after passing from the Supreme Court.

Works

• Ḥerev noqemet něqam Berit, Dessau 1819.
• About discusses the prayers of the Israelites in the national language, from the sources of the Talmud and the later teachers of the Law, 1819.
• With S. J. Frankel: order of public worship for the Sabbath and feast days of the year, after the Gebrauche of the New Temple Club in Hamburg, Hamburg 1819.