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Carl Siegfried Günsburg

1788 – 1860

German Jewish author

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Lived 1788 – 1860 (aged 71). Carl Siegfried Günsburg was a theologian and writer.

Karl Siegfried Günsburg (December 9, 1784 – January 23, 1860) was a German author and Reform Jewish preacher.

Biography Karl Siegfried Günsburg was born in Lissa in 1784. He received a private education before studying at the and (between 1806 and 1810) the in Breslau. He afterwards pursued studies in philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin.

Between 1813 and 1814, he co-published the German-Jewish weekly Erbauungen, oder Gottes Werk und Wort in collaboration with . Günsburg also delivered sermons at the Jacobson Temple in Berlin for a period. He settled with his family in Breslau in 1819, where he actively engaged with the Jewish community, demonstrating his commitment by donating his library on August 19, 1859, to the Lehr- und Leseverein, an institution founded by Abraham Geiger in 1842.

Among his notable literary contributions are Parabeln, a work spanning two volumes published in Berlin in 1820 (expanded to three volumes in Breslau in 1826), and Der Geist des Orients, published in Breslau in 1830. Collaborating with Kley, he also co-published a prayer-book titled Die Deutsche Synagoge, presented in two parts and released in Berlin between 1817 and 1818.

Publications With Eduard Kley.

With Eduard Kley.

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Who was Carl Siegfried Günsburg?

German Jewish author

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Carl Siegfried Günsburg was born on 9 December 1788 in Leszno.

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Carl Siegfried Günsburg died on 23 January 1860 in Wrocław.

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Carl Siegfried Günsburg was a theologian and writer.

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· Wikipedia: Carl Siegfried Günsburg

· Wikidata: Q94909623

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