Pinkus Friedrich Frankl (Hebrew: פנחס פראנקל; February 28, 1848 – August 22, 1887) was a German rabbi and scholar.

Pinkus Frankl
Personal life
Born(1848-02-28)February 28, 1848
DiedAugust 22, 1887(1887-08-22) (aged 39)
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Biography

edit
Title page of Aḥar reshef le-vaḳer

Pinkus Friedrich Frankl was born in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in 1848. He received his education at the yeshivah in Presburg, and later prepared for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau.[1] Simultaneously, he pursued studies in Orientalia at the university of the same city, earning his doctoral degree in 1870.

In 1875, Frankl assumed the position of secretary of the Wiener Israelitische Allianz.[2] In 1877, he succeeded Abraham Geiger as rabbi in Berlin. Frankl's responsibilities expanded in 1881 when he also took on a teaching role at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, lecturing in Jewish philosophy, medieval Hebrew literature, and homiletics.[3] During this period, he collaborated with Heinrich Graetz on the publication of the Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.

Selected publications

edit

References

edit

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Frankl, Pinkus Friedrich". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 496.

  1. Brüll, Adolf (1904). "Frankl, Pinkus". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 48. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. p. 712.
  2. "Frankl, Pinkas Fritz". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 1, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 346.
  3. Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Frankl, Pinkus (Pinhas) Fritz". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.