Michael Creizenach
Michael Creizenach ( born May 16, 1789 in Mainz, † August 5, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator and theologian.
Life
Michael Creizenach came from a wealthy and prominent family in Mainz. From 1805 he attended the French Lycée, which he left after just two and a half years with honors. Creizenach devoted himself particularly intense mathematical studies.
Under the influence of the philosophical encyclopedist, Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he founded in 1813 in Mainz, a Jewish school, which initially rejected by the Jewish community, but was later taken over by it. Creizenach developed a new upper secondary school type, by shifted the focus of the curriculum of the ancient languages (Latin and Greek) on the modern languages , history, mathematics and the natural sciences. This didactic approach also came out of the Jewish community with great interest by enlightened educators and school administrators.
Michael Creizenach published numerous textbooks, including rudiments of descriptive geometry or the projection theory (1821 ), Treatise on the eleventh Euclidean principle in regard to the parallel lines (1821 ), Guidance for higher interest account and its logarithm tables (1825), elementary theory of technical geometry: for Four Parts citizens and Gewerbschulen (1829 ), and a French reading book to use the civil schools (1825 ). 1824 he also published the Jewish magazine spirit of Pharisaic teaching in Mainz.
On September 22, 1823 Creizenach was at Giessen University Dr. phil. doctorate. In 1825 he was appointed a preacher and a teacher at the school, founded in 1804 Israelite Real philanthropist to Frankfurt am Main.
Michael Creizenach employed all his life with religious and political issues of Judaism. His main work is considered Shulchan Aruch, or encyclopaedic representation of the Mosaic Law (1833-1840, 4 volumes). Against an anti- emancipatory treatise of Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Protestant theologian Paul, he published in 1831 Preliminary observations on the published of Dr. HEG Paulus writing under the title: The Jewish National secretion by origin, consequences and improvers.
1831 an urban high school with three classes was at the instigation opened in Mainz Welsch Nunnery, 1836 this was expanded and nationalized the Grand Ducal Province Realschule. From 1848 on they extended the school on 6 classes. Creizenach has thus become the father of the modern school in Mainz.
Together with the historian Isaak Markus Jost he gave 1841/1842 the magazine Zion in Hebrew out. Jost held at the funeral of his friend on August 8, 1842, the grave speech.
Creizenach was next to Ludwig Borne, Berthold Auerbach, Isaak Markus Jost and Gabriel Sandriesser Member founded in 1808 under the Grand Orient de France in Frankfurt am Main Masonic Lodge L' Aurore naissante ( " To the Rising Dawn " ), which started mainly Jews. His son Theodor Creizenach (1818-1877) was an eminent German historian of literature.