Gotthold Salomon (born as Schlomo Salman ben Lippmann haLewi; November 1, 1784 in Sandersleben (

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) – November 17, 1862 in

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) was a

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, politician and

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translator."Gotthold Salomon"
in ''

Jewish Encyclopedia ''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'' is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on th ...

'' Schreiber, Emanuel (1852–1932) "Reformed Judaism and its pioneers: a contribution to its history", Spokane, Washington: Spokane Printing Co., 1892
Chapter V, "Gotthold Salomon"
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Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the ''Haskalah'', or 'Je ...

, Salomon was the first Jew to translate the complete ''

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'' into

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, under the title ''Deutsche Volks- und Schulbibel für Israeliten'' (1837) ("German People's and School Bible for Israelites"). He served as preacher in the

Hamburg Temple The Hamburg Temple (german: link=no, Israelitischer Tempel) was the first permanent Reform synagogue and the first ever to have a Reform prayer rite. It operated in Hamburg (Germany) from 1818 to 1938. On 18 October 1818 the Temple was inaugurated ...

, and partook in the public dispute around it in 1841.

References

External links

Digitized works by Gotthold Salomon
at the

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