Joseph von Maier explained

Joseph von Maier
Birth Name:Joseph Maier Rosenthal
Birth Date:27 April 1797
Birth Place:Laudenbach-Fruchtlingen, Duchy of Württemberg (near Bad Mergentheim)
Death Place:Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg
Buried:[1]
Alma Mater:University of Tübingen

Joseph von Maier (; 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 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.[2] 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.[3]

Partial bibliography

Books and pamphlets

Published eulogies

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gravelist of Jewish Section of Hoppenlau Cemetery in Stuttgart. Joachim. Hahn. Alemannia Judaica. Rolf. Hofmann. 2013. 1987. 27 June 2022.
  2. Web site: Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg). Alemannia Judaica. de. 27 June 2022.
  3. Book: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums. 1873. 585. de.

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