How to Pronounce Heinrich Gross (rabbi)
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Nov 06, 1835 Senica, Trnava Region, Slovakia Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1834)
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About Heinrich Gross Rabbi
- Heinrich Gross, writing also as Henri Gross (born Szenicz, Hungarian Kingdom, now Senica, Slovakia, 6 November 1835; died 1910), was a German rabbi.
- He was a pupil in rabbinical literature of Judah Aszod.
- After graduating from the Breslau seminary and from the University of Halle (Ph.D.
- 1866; his thesis on Leibniz obtaining the university prize), he was engaged as a private teacher by Baron Horace Günzburg at Paris.
- During a residence of two years in that city Gross collected in the Bibliothèque Nationale the material for his work Gallia Judaica.
- In 1869 he went to Berlin, where he associated much with Leopold Zunz, whose methods of research he admired and adopted.
- In 1870 he was called to the rabbinate of Gross-Strelitz, Silesia.
- From 1875 he was rabbi of Augsburg. Gross's activity in the domain of literary history, especially of that of the French Jews of the Middle Ages, was extensive.
- His Gallia Judaica (Paris, 1897), which deals with the medieval geography and literary history of the Jews of France, became a standard work.
- Gross also enriched the Jewish scientific periodicals with valuable contributions.
- Of these the most noteworthy are: "Abraham ben David aus Posquières, ein Literarhistorischer Versuch," in "Monatsschrift," 1873-74 "Zur Geschichte der Juden in Arles," ib.
- 1878, 1879, 1880 "Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi, ein Literarhistorischer Versuch," ib.
- 1885, 1886 "Jehudah Sir Leon aus Paris: Analekten," in "Magazin," 1877, 1878, iv.
- 174, v.
- 179 "Etude sur Simson ben Abraham de Sens," in "R.
- E.
- J." 1883.Gross was also the author of "Lehrbuch der Israelitischen Religion für die Oberen Klassen der Mittelschulen."
