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484 Bamberger, Isaac Bamberger, Seligman

THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

Although detached from practical Judaism, Bamberger has remained a Jew by conviction, and never concealed the religion in which he was born. During the parliamentary debates on the law concerning child-labor he urged that Jewish apprentices be exempt from working on Saturday. His amendment was, however, rejected. Bamberger published: " Etude sur le Travail des Enfants dans les Manufactures" (1873-74); "Etude sur le Socialisme en Russie," etc. Bibliography: Kmivcau Lamussc lllustre; Dicti/mnaire Biographique d' Alsace-Lorraine, 1896, vol. 1. s.

I.

BAMBERGER, ISAAC at Angenrod, in the grand stadt,

Nov.

5,

1834;

B.

German rabbi born duchy of Hesse-Darm:



484

BAMBERGER, LTJDWIG and

political

economist





German deputy

born in Mayence July

22,

He studied 1823; died in Berlin March 14, 1899. law in 1842-45 at the universities of Giessen, Heiand during the following delberg, and Gottingen two years he was attorney at law in his native city. He became involved in the revolutionary movement of 1848, being at that time editor of the " Mainzer Zeitung " enlisted in the ranks of the volunteers; and took an active part in the insurrection When, with the of the Lower Palatinate in 1849. assistance of Prussia, the rising was quelled, Bam;



berger, among others, was sentenced to imprisonment by the tribunals of Mayence, and condemned to death by the Bavarian authorities. He fled to Switzerland,

died at Konigsberg Oct. 26,

He received elementary instruction in Hebrew from his father, Mayer Bamberger, who was for fifty 1896.

years a teacher in Angenrod, attended the Realschule in Alsfeld, and Dr. Miller's institute in Pulda. He finished his preparatory education at the gymnasium in Giessen. Afterward he entered the University of Giessen, where he studied philosophy and philology receiving at the same time instruction in rabbinical branches from Dr. Levi, the local rabbi. After having graduated as Ph.D. at the University of Giessen in 1861, he went to the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary, where he devoted himself to the study of Jewish theology. He was graduated as rabbi in 1861, and in 1865 he was called to Konigsberg as rabbi of the Reform congregation to succeed the late Rabbi Saalschiitz. He held this position until his death, devoting himself entirely to philanthropical, educational, and communal work. Bamberger distinguished himself especially by his untiring efforts for the amelioration of the condition of the Russian Jews, who flocked to Konigsberg in large numbers after 1882, when the persecutions assumed a serious extent; but the needs of his own community also found in Bamberger an equalty ardent worker. He organized the following societies and institutions; society to assist indigent Jewish students the union of the Jewish congregations of East Prussia a society for the prevention of pauperism; an orphan asylum, known as "Dr.

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Koch's Waisen-Brziehungs-Anstalt"; a society for providing the poor with fuel a union of Jewish Sabbath-school teachers in East Prussia and a society for providing poor school -children with winter

Ludwig Bamberger.





He was

also a zealous

member

of the Alfor more than twenty years in eastern Prussia. He was one of the founders of the "Deutsch-Israeiitischer Gemeindebund " (Union of German Congregations); and of the Deutscher Rabbiner- Verein (Union of German Rabbis) the latter elected him several clothes.

which he represented

liance Israelite Universelle,



times as presiding officer at its meetings. Bamberger was a man of thorough training, and a forcible speaker, justly esteemed for his tact in public addresses. His death occurred before the dedication of the beautiful new synagogue at Konigsberg, for the erection of which he had worked so zealously.

Bibliography



Attn. Zeit.

form Advocate, Not. S.

21,

cles

1896



Jud. 1896, pp. 332, 533 and private sources.



Re-

D.

and thence went in succession to England, Belgium, and Holland, earning a living mainly by work for different commercial houses; and, finally, took up his abode in Paris, where he became manager of the large banking firm of Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt in 1853. He remained in this position until the general amnesty granted to political offenders in 1866. Bamberger thereupon returned to Mayence, and, two years later, was elected to the newly established Parliament of the Zollverein.

At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war the reputation of Bamberger as a talented and successful writer on political and economic subjects, his well-

known sympathies tional Liberalen,"

for the so-called "Deutsch-Na-

and

his exceptional familiarity

with existing conditions in France induced Prince Bismarck, in August, 1870, to entrust to him the

management

of a considerable part of the political