Ludwig Venetianer (May 19, 1867, Kecskemét - November 25, 1922, Újpest) was a Hungarian

Kingdom of Hungary

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 rabbi

Rabbi

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 and writer.

Venetianer was born in Kecskemét

Kecskemét

Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...

. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of Budapest, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary (Breslau)

Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau

Das Jüdisch-Theologische Seminar , The Jewish Theological Seminary of BreslauInstitution in Breslau for the training of rabbis, founded under the will of Jonas Fränckel, and opened in 1854...

 and the University of Breslau, 1888-89 (Ph.D. 1890, Budapest). Receiving his diploma as rabbi from the seminary of Budapest

Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies

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 in 1892, he officiated as rabbi at Somogy-Csurgó from that year to 1895, holding at the same time the chair of Hungarian

Hungarian literature

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 and German literature

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s at the Evangelical Reform Gymnasium of that city. In 1895 he was called to the rabbinate of Lugos

Lugos

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, and in the following year to that of Újpest

Újpest

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 near Budapest. He died in 1922.

Literary works

Venetianer is the author of:

• A Fokozatok Könyve, on the sources of Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera
  Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera
  Shem-Tov ben Joseph ibn Falaquera, also spelled Palquera was a Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet and commentator. A vast body of work is attributed to Falaquera, including encyclopedias of Arabic and Greek philosophies, maqamas, some 20,000 poetic verses, and commentaries on Maimonides’ Guide...
  
   (Szeged, 1890)
• A Felebaráti Szeretet a Zsidó Ethikában, on charity
  Tzedakah
  Tzedakah or Ṣ'daqah in Classical Hebrew is a Hebrew word commonly translated as charity, though it is based on the Hebrew word meaning righteousness, fairness or justice...
  
   in Jewish ethics
  Jewish ethics
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   (Budapest, 1891)
• Das Buch der Grade von Schemtob ibn Falaquera (Berlin, 1894)
• Die Eleusinischen Mysterien im Jerusalemischen Tempel (Frankfurt am Main, 1897)
• A Héber-Magyar Összehasonlitó Nyelvészet, a history of Hebrew-Hungarian philology (Budapest, 1898)
• A Zsidóság Szervezete az Európai Államokban, a history of the Jewish communal constitution in Europe (ib. 1901)
• A Magyar Zsidóság Szervezetéről, a work treating of the organization of the Jews in Hungary (ib. 1903)
• A Zsidóság Eszméi és Tanai, a treatise on the conceptions and doctrines of Judaism (ib. 1904).
• Ludwig Venetianer: Jüdisches im Christentum (Frankfurt am Main, 1913). Marianna Varga, Erinnerung an Ludwig Venetianer, Emlékezés Venetianer Lajosra, Tanulmány, Studie. Deutsch, Ungarisch. Peter W. Metzler Verlag (Duisburg, 2004) ISBN 978-3-936283-08-2
• Ludwig Venetianer: Die Messiashoffnung des Judenthums, Vortrag (Wien, 1915), Peter W. Metzler Verlag, (Duisburg, 2006) ISBN 978-3-936283-09-9
• Ludwig Venetianer: Die Messiashoffnung des Judentums, Vortrag (Wien, 1915), Peter W. Metzler Verlag, (Duisburg, 2010) ISBN 978-3-936283-11-2
• Lajos / Ludwig Venetianer: Kossuth Lajos, Emlekbeszed, Gedenkansprache (Somogy Csurgói, 1894). 1848 Marczius 15., Ünnepi Beszed, Festansprache (Ujpest, 1898). Die Messiashoffnung des Judentums, Vortrag (Wien, 1915), Peter W. Metzler Verlag, (Duisburg, 2010) ISBN 978-3-936283-12-9

He has also contributed numerous articles to periodicals, including Egyenlőség, Társadalmi Lapok, Jahrbuch des Litteraturvereins, Pesti Napló, Magyar-Zsidó Szemle, Orientalistische Litteraturzeitung, Ethnographia, and Bloch's Festschrift (supplement to the Österreichische Wochenschrift); and he has published some sermons in Hungarian.

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