Sammter, Asher:

By: Isidore Singer , Schulim Ochser

German rabbi; born at Derenburg, near Halberstadt, Jan. 1, 1807; died at Berlin Feb. 5, 1887. From 1837 to 1854 he was rabbi and preacher in Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia, where he introduced German preaching and confirmation; from 1869 until his death he lived in Berlin.

Sammter wrote: "Die Unsterblichkeit Unserer Person Wissenschaftlich Beleuchtet" (Liegnitz, 1843); "Die Schlacht bei Liegnitz" ( ib. 1860); "Chronik von Liegnitz" (2 vols., ib. 1861-62); "Die Schlacht an der Katzbach" ( ib. 1863); "Masseket Baba Meẓi'a, Talmud Babylonium," with German translation and annotations, and with biographical sketches of the Talmudists and commentators (Berlin, 1877-79); "Mishnayyot," the six orders of the Mishnah, Hebrew text, with German translation and annotations ( ib. 1884-88); "Der Rabbi von Líegnitz," historical narrative of the time of the Hussites ( ib. 1886). The author had planned to publish the "Mishnayyot" in forty numbers, but only the first eight of the Seder Zera'im and the first two of the Seder Mo'ed appeared.