Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn
Biography
He was born in Halle and died in Fürth. He was professor at the {{interlanguage link|Königliche Wilhelms-Schule|de}} at Breslau from 1792 to 1807. After 1807, he became private tutor in Berlin of the sons of the financier Judah Herz Beer, and of Jakob Beer (later known as Giacomo Meyerbeer) in particular. Letters between Jakob Beer and Aron Wolfssohn have been published among the Meyerbeer correspondence.
Besides translating much of the Tanakh into German, he published a Hebrew-German primer (Abtalion), commentaries, essays and the play Leichtsinn und Frömmelei (written in 1796).
Bibliography
- Jeremy Dauber (2004), Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature. Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|0-8047-4901-9}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060305201303/http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Antonio%27s.htm Review of this book]
References
- {{JewishEncyclopedia|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=H&artid=140|article=Halle, Aaron ben Wolf}}
- {{cite web |last1=Kressel |first1=Getzel |title=Aaron Wolfsohn-Halle |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wolfsohn-halle-aaron |website=Encyclopaedia Judaica |publisher=Cengage |access-date=13 August 2022}}
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Category:People from the Duchy of Magdeburg
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