Eliakim Carmoly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eliakim Carmoly

French rabbi

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1802

Place of Birth: Soultz-Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1875

Profession: writer, rabbi, bibliographer, literary historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Eliakim Carmoly (August 5, 1802 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, France – February 15, 1875 in Frankfurt) was a French scholar.
He was born at Soultz-Haut-Rhin, then in the French department of Haut-Rhin.
His real name was Goschel David Behr (or Baer); the name Carmoly, borne by his family in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was adopted by him when quite young.
He studied Hebrew and Talmud at Colmar; and, because both French and German were spoken in his native town, he became proficient in those languages. Carmoly went to Paris, and there assiduously studied the old Hebrew manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale, where he was employed.
Several articles published by him on various subjects in scientific papers made him known; and on the establishment of a Jewish consistory in Belgium, he was appointed rabbi at Brussels (May 18, 1832).
In this position Carmoly rendered many services to the newly founded congregation, chiefly in providing schools for the poor.
Seven years later, having provoked great opposition by his new scheme of reforms, Carmoly resigned the rabbinate and retired to Frankfort, where he devoted himself wholly to Jewish literature and to the collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts, in which he was passionately interested. His grandfather was Isaachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly, rabbi of Sulz.