Peter Beer

Peter (Perez) Beer (1758–1838) was an Austrian Jewish enlightenment thinker, teacher and historian.

Life He was born in from Nový Bydžov, Bohemia. He started as a teacher in 1783 at the Normalschule in Mattersburg, before returning to Nový Bydžov in 1785. He married Rebeka Hlawatsch in 1787 and they had seven children. He taught in Prague from 1811 until his death. He also wrote a critical work on rabbinical teaching methods called Kos jesuot oder Kelch des Heils in 1802 which was not a success and created a controversy among the authorities, and the later 1809/1810 Dal Yisroel, oder das Judentum which was designed to be palatable to the more orthodox. His autobiography was published in 1839 posthumously.