Emmanuel Deutz (1763-1842) was a German-born French rabbi.
Biography
Emmanuel Deutz was born in 1763 in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
, Germany.
Deutz served as a rabbi in
Koblenz, Germany.
He served as the Chief Rabbi of France from 1810 to 1842.
Nevertheless, Deutz was not a fluent French speaker.
Deutz had a wife, Judith, and five children.
His daughter Sarah married
David Paul Drach.
When Drach converted to Roman Catholicism, the couple separated.
Meanwhile, one of Deutz's sons,
Simon Deutz, also converted to Roman Catholicism.
Deutz died in 1842.
References
1763 births
1842 deaths
Clergy from Bonn
German emigrants to France
Chief rabbis of France
19th-century French rabbis
18th-century German rabbis
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