Ludwig Venetianer

Ludwig Venetianer (Venetianer Lajos)(May 19 1867 - 1922) was a Hungarian rabbi and writer.

Venetianer was born in Kecskemét. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of Budapest, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University of Breslau, 1888-89 (Ph.D. 1890, Budapest). Receiving his diploma as rabbi from the seminary of Budapest in 1892, he officiated as rabbi at Somogy-Csurgó from that year to 1895, holding at the same time the chair of Hungarian and German literatures at the Evangelical Reform Gymnasium of that city. In 1895 he was called to the rabbinate of Lugos, and in the following year to that of Újpest near Budapest. He died in 1922.

Biography

Ludwig (ungarisch: Lajos) Venetianer, geboren am 19. Mai 1867 in Kecskemét, gestorben am 25. November 1922 in Újpest (Neupest). Studium in Breslau (1888 / 1889 Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar, Breslau) und Budapest. 1891 Promotion, 1892 Ordination zum Rabbiner. Gymnasiallehrer für Ungarisch und Deutsch, 1896 bis 1922 Oberrabbiner in Újpest (Neupest), 1912 bis 1922 Dozent am Franz-Joseph-Rabbiner-Seminar / Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest. Veröffentlichungen zur Religionsgeschichte, Literatur und Geschichte des Judentums, Studien zum jüdischen und christlichen Kultus.

Venetianer is the author of: "A Fokozatok Könyve," on the sources of Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera (Szegedin, 1890); "A Felebaráti Szeretet a Zsidó Ethikában," on charity in Jewish ethics (Budapest, 1891); "Das Buch der Grade von Schemtob ibn Falaquera" (Berlin, 1894); "Die Eleusinischen Mysterien im Jerusalemischen Tempel" (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1897); "A Héber-Magyar Összehasonlitó Nyelvészet," a history of Hebrew-Hungarian philology (Budapest, 1898); "A Zsidóság Szervezete az Európai Államokban," a history of the Jewish communal constitution in Europe (ib. 1901); "A Magyar Zsidóság Szervezetéről," a work treating of the organization of the Jews in Hungary (ib. 1903); "A Zsidóság Eszméi és Tanai," a treatise on the conceptions and doctrines of Judaism (ib. 1904). He has also contributed numerous articles to periodicals, including "Egyenlőség," "Társadalmi Lapok," "Jahrbuch des Litteraturvereins," "Pesti Napló," "Magyar-Zsidó Szemle," "Orientalistische Litteraturzeitung," "Ethnographia," and "Bloch's Festschrift" (supplement to the "Österreichische Wochenschrift"); and he has published some sermons in Hungarian.

Bibliography

* A. Csurgói, Tanitó-Képző Intézet Története, p. 45;
* "Gesch. des Jüdisch-Theologischen Seminars in Breslau", p. 199.
*Marianna Varga, "Ludwig Venetianer: Jüdisches im Christentum" / Erinnerung an Ludwig Venetianer / Emlékezés Venetianer Lajosra / von / Tanulmány / Studie / 156 Seiten / ISBN 3-936283-08-7 / 2004 / Deutsch / Ungarisch
*"Ludwig Venetianer: Die Messiashoffnung des Judenthums" / 18 Seiten / ISBN 3-936283-09-5 / 2006 / Peter W. Metzler Verlag , Duisburg / www.metzler-verlag.de / Buch- und Medienversand Peter Metzler , Duisburg / www.versandweltweit.de

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