Heinrich Gross (rabbi), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinrich Gross (rabbi)

German Rabbi

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1835

Place of Birth: Senica, Trnava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: rabbi, historian

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Heinrich Gross (rabbi)

  • Heinrich Gross, writing also as Henri Gross (born Szenicz, Hungarian Kingdom, now Senica, Slovakia, 6 November 1835; died 1910), was a German rabbi.
  • He was a pupil in rabbinical literature of Judah Aszod.
  • After graduating from the Breslau seminary and from the University of Halle (Ph.D.
  • 1866; his thesis on Leibniz obtaining the university prize), he was engaged as a private teacher by Baron Horace Günzburg at Paris.
  • During a residence of two years in that city Gross collected in the Bibliothèque Nationale the material for his work Gallia Judaica.
  • In 1869 he went to Berlin, where he associated much with Leopold Zunz, whose methods of research he admired and adopted.
  • In 1870 he was called to the rabbinate of Gross-Strelitz, Silesia.
  • From 1875 he was rabbi of Augsburg. Gross's activity in the domain of literary history, especially of that of the French Jews of the Middle Ages, was extensive.
  • His Gallia Judaica (Paris, 1897), which deals with the medieval geography and literary history of the Jews of France, became a standard work.
  • Gross also enriched the Jewish scientific periodicals with valuable contributions.
  • Of these the most noteworthy are: "Abraham ben David aus Posquières, ein Literarhistorischer Versuch," in "Monatsschrift," 1873-74 "Zur Geschichte der Juden in Arles," ib.
  • 1878, 1879, 1880 "Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi, ein Literarhistorischer Versuch," ib.
  • 1885, 1886 "Jehudah Sir Leon aus Paris: Analekten," in "Magazin," 1877, 1878, iv.
  • 174, v.
  • 179 "Etude sur Simson ben Abraham de Sens," in "R.
  • E.
  • J." 1883.Gross was also the author of "Lehrbuch der Israelitischen Religion für die Oberen Klassen der Mittelschulen."

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