1808
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (died 1888)
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (died 1888)
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (died 1888)
Samson Raphael Hirsch
19th century German Jewish theologian
- Born
- 1808
Samson Raphael Hirsch was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.