Ludwig Lewysohn (15 April 1819, in Schwersenz, Posen – 26 May 1901, in

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), was a German

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. Graduating from the

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, in 1843, he studied

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ia in that city, and received his

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from the

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in 1847, his dissertation being "De Sacrificiis Veteris Testamenti." In 1848 he became preacher at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. Three years later he was called as rabbi to

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, where he officiated until 1858. He then accepted a call to

, where he labored from 1859 to 1893, in which year he resigned. Besides numerous contributions to Jewish periodicals (especially "Ha-Maggid"), he published "Nafshot Ẓaddiḳim" (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1855), on the epitaphs at Worms, and "Die Zoologie des Talmuds" (ib. 1858).

References

*Reines, Tableaux Historiques, i. 123 et seq *

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, ''Bibliotheca Hebraica Post-Mendelssohniana'' i. 209. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewysohn 1819 births 1901 deaths 19th-century German rabbis