Joseph von Maier

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Joseph von Maier
Personal
Born
Joseph Maier Rosenthal

(1797-04-27)27 April 1797
Laudenbach-Fruchtlingen, Duchy of Württemberg (near Bad Mergentheim)
Died19 August 1873(1873-08-19) (aged 76)
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
ReligionJudaism
Spouse
Rebekka Auerbacher
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(m. 1835)​
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
BuriedHoppenlau Cemetery [de][1]

Joseph von Maier (Hebrew: יוסף בן מאיר; 27 April 1797 – 19 August 1873) was a German rabbi, who served as Oberkirchenrath ('High Consistorial Councillor') of the Kingdom of Württemberg.[2]

Biography

Joseph Maier Rosenthal was born to Sara (née Lazarus) and Meier Rosenthal in 1797 in the town of Laudenbach-Fruchtlingen, near Bad Mergentheim). He attended ḥeder as a child, and went on to become a pupil at the yeshivas of Fürth and Mainz.[3]

From the 1820s, he began working as a religious teacher, eventually in Frankfurt. After receiving his rabbinical ordination in 1827, he worked as Hausrabbiner (private rabbi) to the Kaulla banking family in Stuttgart.[3] In 1832 he became Bezirksrabbiner (district rabbi) of that town, a position he held until his death.[4] He was president of the first rabbinical conference held at Brunswick in 1844, and he was also a member of the Jewish Consistory of Württemberg.[5]

In recognition of religious and philanthropic activities, he was ennobled by King Charles of Württemberg on his seventieth birthday in 1867, and decorated with the Ritterkreuz des Württembergischen Kronordens.[1] This gave him the distinction of being the first German rabbi belonging to the nobility.[6]

Partial bibliography

Books and pamphlets

Published eulogies

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidor (1904). "Maier, Joseph von". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 264.

  1. ^ a b Hahn, Joachim (2013) [1987]. "Gravelist of Jewish Section of Hoppenlau Cemetery in Stuttgart" (PDF). Alemannia Judaica. Translated by Hofmann, Rolf. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  2. ^ Hermann, Klaus (2006). "Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in German". In Wiese, Christian (ed.). Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation: Comparative Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860). Brill. p. 152. ISBN 978-90-474-1039-3.
  3. ^ a b "Maier, Joseph [von], Dr.". Das Biographische Handbuch der Rabbiner (in German). Vol. I. Verlag K. G. Saur. 2007–2009. pp. 637–638.
  4. ^ "Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg)". Alemannia Judaica (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  5. ^  Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidor (1904). "Maier, Joseph von". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 264.
  6. ^ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (in German). 1873. p. 585.
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