Jacob Joseph Oettinger

From Wikipedia - Reading time: 5 min

Jacob Joseph Oettinger
Personal life
Born
הרב יעקב יוסף עטטינגר

1780
Glogau, Silesia, Prussia
Died1860
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
PositionChief Rabbi of Berlin
Began1825
Ended1860

Rabbi Jacob Joseph Oettinger (Hebrew: הרב יעקב יוסף עטטינגר 1780 – 1860),[1] a native of Glogau, acted as the final chief rabbi of Berlin between 1825 and 1860,[2] and served for some time as the dean of Berlin's rabbinical college.[3] Oettinger was also known as an opponent of Leopold Zunz.[4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ with a doubled ט in accordance with the spelling of his name in his approbation for Cassel, David (1848). Teshuvot geʼonim ḳadmonim. Berlin: Fridlendershe bukhdruḳerai. p. Approbation, p.1. OCLC 19156656.
  2. ^ "Berlin". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  3. ^ Deutsch, G. (1904). Central Conference of American Rabbis, vol. 13. Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press. p. 341.
  4. ^ "What color was Rashi's shirt? Who said it and why?". On the Main Line. Mississippi Fred MacDowell. Retrieved 15 December 2014.


This article is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob Joseph Oettinger
Status: article is cached
Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF