Siegmund Salfeld
Encyclopedia
Siegmund Salfeld was a German
rabbi and writer. He was born at Stadthagen
, Schaumburg-Lippe
.
Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1870, he became in the same year rabbi of Dessau, Anhalt. In 1880 he was chosen rabbi of Mainz
. He collaborated on Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
and the Jewish Encyclopedia
. He died in Mainz, aged 83.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
rabbi and writer. He was born at Stadthagen
Stadthagen
Stadthagen is the capital of the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 20 km east of Minden and 40 km west of Hanover. The city consists of the districts Brandenburg, Enzen-Hobbensen, Hörkamp-Langenbruch, Krebshagen, Obernwöhren, Probsthagen, Reinsen...
, Schaumburg-Lippe
Schaumburg-Lippe
Schaumburg-Lippe was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bückeburg.- History :...
.
Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1870, he became in the same year rabbi of Dessau, Anhalt. In 1880 he was chosen rabbi of Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
. He collaborated on Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or Meyers Lexikon was a major German encyclopedia that existed in various editions, and several titles, from 1839 until 1984, when it merged with the Brockhaus encyclopedia....
and the Jewish Encyclopedia
Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901...
. He died in Mainz, aged 83.
Works
- Fünf Predigten (1879), sermons delivered on different occasions
- Das Hohelied Salomo's bei den Jüdischen Erklärern des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1879)
- Dr. Salomon Herxheimer (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1885) biography
- Nürnberg im Mittelalter (Kiel, 1894-1896) with M. Stern
- Der Alte Israelitische Friedhof in Mainz (Berlin, 1898)
- Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches (ib. 1898), a work edited for the Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland
- Bilder aus der Vergangenheit der Jüdischen Gemeinde Mainz (Mayence, 1903)