Joseph von Maier

Joseph von Maier
Personal life
BornJoseph Maier Rosenthal
(1797-04-27)27 April 1797
Laudenbach-Fruchtlingen, Duchy of Württemberg (near Bad Mergentheim)
Died19 August 1873(1873-08-19) (aged 76)
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
BuriedHoppenlau Cemetery [de]
Spouse
Rebekka Auerbacher
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(m. 1835)​
EducationUniversity of Tübingen
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Joseph von Maier (Hebrew: יוסף בן מאיר, romanized: Yosef ben Meir; 27 April 1797 – 19 August 1873) was a German rabbi, who served as Oberkirchenrath ('High Consistorial Councillor') of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Biography

Joseph Maier Rosenthal was born to Sara (née Lazarus) and Meier Rosenthal in 1797 in the town of Laudenbach-Fruchtlingen, near Bad Mergentheim. He attended ḥeder as a child, and went on to become a pupil at the yeshivas of Fürth and Mainz.

From the 1820s, he began working as a religious teacher, eventually in Frankfurt. After receiving his rabbinical ordination in 1827, he worked as Hausrabbiner (private rabbi) to the Kaulla banking family in Stuttgart. In 1832 he became Bezirksrabbiner (district rabbi) of that town, a position he held until his death. He was president of the first rabbinical conference held at Brunswick in 1844, and he was also a member of the Jewish Consistory of Württemberg.

In recognition of religious and philanthropic activities, he was ennobled by King Charles of Württemberg on his seventieth birthday in 1867, and decorated with the Ritterkreuz des Württembergischen Kronordens. This gave him the distinction of being the first German rabbi belonging to the nobility.

Partial bibliography

Books and pamphlets

Published eulogies

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidor (1904). "Maier, Joseph von". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 264.

  1. 1 2 Hahn, Joachim (2013) [1987]. "Gravelist of Jewish Section of Hoppenlau Cemetery in Stuttgart" (PDF). Alemannia Judaica. Translated by Hofmann, Rolf. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Hermann, Klaus (2006). "Samuel Holdheim and the Prayerbook Reform in German". In Wiese, Christian (ed.). Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation: Comparative Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860). Brill. p. 152. ISBN 978-90-474-1039-3.
  3. 1 2 "Maier, Joseph [von], Dr.". Das Biographische Handbuch der Rabbiner (in German). Vol. I. Verlag K. G. Saur. 2007–2009. pp. 637–638.
  4. ↑ "Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg)". Alemannia Judaica (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  5. ↑  Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidor (1904). "Maier, Joseph von". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 264.
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (in German). 1873. p. 585.