Zelig Kassel (after the transition to Protestantism - Paulus Stefanus (Paul Stefan Kassel)) ( German: Paulus Stephanus Cassel ; February 27, 1821 , Glogau , Silesia - December 23, 1892 , Berlin , German Empire ) - German historian , theologian , publicist , journalist and preacher .
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Biography
The son of a Jewish sculptor Hirsch Kassel. Brother of the Hebraist David Kassel . He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin with the historian Leopold von Ranke and the famous Talmudist Jacob Joseph Ettinger. Received a diploma for the title of rabbi .
In the 1840s, he was an ardent supporter of the Orthodox camp and fought against reformist tendencies. His first significant work was a review of Jewish history, published in the Allgemeine Encyclopädie by Ersch and Gruber (Sektion II, v. 27, 1–238, 1850), a good essay on the political, social and economic history of Jews for that time. Kassel's work met with sympathy among experts. Leaving scientific activity, he began to edit the Erfurter Zeitung newspaper (1850-1856) in Erfurt .
In 1855, converted to Christianity ( Lutheranism ). Returning to Berlin , from 1868 he became a preacher in a church built with British colleagues for missionary purposes and was a great success as a preacher. When an anti-Semitic movement broke out in 1878, Kassel sharply opposed the court preacher Adolf Shtecker .
He was a member of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, belonged to the conservative party. He worked as a librarian at the Royal Library in Erfurt. He was the secretary of the Erfurt Academy, received the title of professor.
The author of many works on the history of religion, the creator of a kind of symbolic mysticism embellished with modernism .
His main works are: “The History of the Jews” from the destruction of Jerusalem until 1847 (article “Juden” in the “ General Encyclopedia of Science and Art ” by Ersh and Gruber, II, vol. 27, Lpts., 1851); “Weihnachten, Ursprung, Bräuche und Aberglauben” (ibid., 1862); “Kaiser- und Königsthrone in Geschichte, Symbol und Sage” (1874); Vom Nil zum Ganges (1880); Die Symbolik des Blutes (1882); “Fredegunde. Eine Novelle in Briefen "(Lp., 1885); "Aus Litteratur und Symbolik" (1884); “Aus Litteratur und Geschichte” (1885); "Friedrich Wilhelm II" (Gotha, 1886); "Zoroaster, sein Name und siene Zeit" (Berl., 1886); Die Bücher der Richter und Ruth (in Bibelwerk Lange, Bielefeld, 1865, 1887); "Das Evangelium der Söhne Zebedaei" (1870, 1878); Das Buch Esther (1878); "Christl. Sittenlehre. Eine Auslegung des Briefes Pauli an Titus "(1880); Die Hochzeit zu Kana (1883); "988, eine Erinnerung an das 900 jährige Jubiläum der russischen Kirche" (1888). In 1890, he published a collection of articles, Altheia.
His pamphlet against the authenticity of the letter of the Khazar King Joseph was refuted in the journal Russische Revue, 1877. In 1890, the collected works of Kassel appeared. Against the anti-Semitic movement he wrote Wider Heinrich von Treitschke (1880) and Ahasverus, die Sage vom ewigen Juden (1885, 1887).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2013.
Literature
- Kassel, Zelig // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Kassel, Zelig // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.