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Samson Raphael Hirsch

1808 - 1888

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Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. Hirsch was rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, and was subsequently appointed chief rabbi of Moravia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samson Raphael Hirsch has received more than 285,418 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Samson Raphael Hirsch is the 2,664th most popular writer (down from 2,619th in 2019), the 2,812th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,703rd in 2019) and the 176th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Be-ma'gele shanah
Judaism, Religious calendars
1965
Horeb
Jewish law, Judaism, Philosophy
1962
The Hirsch Chumash
Commentaries, Bible
2005
The Nineteen Letters Of Ben Uziel
Judaism, Accessible book
1899
The collected writings
Judaism, Works to 1900, Jews
1984
Judaism eternal
Judaism, Bibliography
1956

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 2,664 out of 7,302. Before him are Hans Hellmut Kirst, Valentin Rasputin, Béla Király, Gustav Schwab, Michael Cunningham, and Petrus Comestor. After him are Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, Amalie Skram, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Lupus Servatus, Holger Drachmann, and Vilis Lācis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 34. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Henrik Wergeland, José de Espronceda, Mindon Min, Venancio Flores, and Emma Darwin. After him are Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Auguste Franchomme, Johann Benedict Listing, and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli. Among people deceased in 1888, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 50. Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Eunice Newton Foote, Jean-Delphin Alard, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Raffi, and Joseph Dietzgen. After him are Princess Marie of Prussia, George Robert Waterhouse, Turki bin Said, Stephen Heller, Victoria Benedictsson, and Heinrich Anton de Bary.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 2,812 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Lang (1909), Helmut Hasse (1898), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890), Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896), Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799), and Gustav Schwab (1792). After him are Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Valentin Weigel (1533), Adam Kraft (1450), and Hermann von Fehling (1812).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 176. Before him are Gertrud von Le Fort (1876), Georg Herwegh (1817), Günter Wallraff (1942), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), Matthias Claudius (1740), and Gustav Schwab (1792). After him are Cornelia Funke (1958), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), Sebastian Franck (1499), Mina Witkojc (1893), Alice Schwarzer (1942), and Malwida von Meysenbug (1816).

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