Theodor Creizenach

Theodor Creizenach ( born April 17, 1818 in Mainz; † 6 December 1877 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German teacher, poet and literary historian.

Life and work

Creizenach was a son of the Jewish preacher and mathematician Michael Creizenach (1789-1842) and his wife Marianne, née Haas ( 1788-1844 ). His father was appointed in 1825 as a teacher at the philanthropist, the Theodor visited first. In 1829 he became a student of the Frankfurt school, where he took off in 1835 -leaving examination. After studying philology in Giessen, Göttingen and Heidelberg he joined in 1842 a position as a private tutor and educator in the home Anselm Salomon von Rothschild at. This led the branch of the House of Rothschild in Vienna, but his family lived mostly in Frankfurt and often made ​​trips to London and Paris, where accompanied him Creizenach. 1839 to 1853 he was also a teacher at the philanthropist.

1842 belonged Creizenach as a radical follower of the Jewish reform movement of the founders of the liberal Frankfurter Jewish Reform Association. In the following years he withdrew more and more from the Jewish roots. He doubted the religious rules and rituals and to no longer expected the coming of the Messiah and the return of the Jews to Jerusalem, but saw himself as a German Jew. In 1854 gave Creizenach to his teaching post at the philanthropist and took after a trip to Italy on 18 December 1854, the baptism; He joined the Protestant Church. Until 1858 he lived mainly as a private teacher and writer, after which he became a teacher at city schools - first at the Commercial School, since 1859 at the Higher public school and in 1861 at the Frankfurt School. In 1863 he succeeded Georg Ludwig Kriegks Associate Professor at the School.

Creizenach was a respected Dante and Goethe scholar. He wrote many literary works, including two volumes of poetry, essays and dramas. From 1870 he worked with Oskar hunters and Theodor Bernhardt world history of Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and continued the work. In 1877 he published the correspondence between Goethe and Marianne von Willemer. The inscription "To the true, the beautiful, the good" on the gable of Frankfurter opera house said to have been inspired by Creizenach. Like his father, he was a member of the mainly Jewish citizens of Frankfurt visited Masonic Lodge to the rising dawn.

Creizenach was married to Louise born Flersheim, a daughter of the banker Moritz Flersheim. His son is the literary historian Wilhelm Creizenach ( 1851-1919 ).

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