WRITER

Samson Raphael Hirsch

1808 - 1888

Photo of Samson Raphael Hirsch

Icon of person Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) 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. Hirsch was rabbi in Oldenburg, Emden, and was subsequently appointed chief rabbi of Moravia. From 1851 until his death, Hirsch led the secessionist Orthodox community in Frankfurt am Main. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samson Raphael Hirsch is the 2,856th most popular writer (down from 2,664th in 2019), the 3,029th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,812th in 2019) and the 181st most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Samson Raphael Hirsch by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 2,856 out of 7,302. Before him are Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Per Petterson, Theodore Prodromos, Adam Michnik, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus. After him are Unsuri, Jules Vallès, Catulle Mendès, Tom Robbins, François Cheng, and Aleksandër Stavre Drenova.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 37. Before him are Eugénie de Beauharnais, Urbano Rattazzi, Venancio Flores, Johann Benedict Listing, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, and John Scott Russell. After him are Emma Darwin, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Caterina Scarpellini, Karl Friedrich Lessing, and August von Werder. Among people deceased in 1888, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 50. Before him are Eugène Marin Labiche, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Philip Sheridan, Henri Herz, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, and Asa Gray. After him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Laurence Oliphant, Stephen Heller, Raffi, Victoria Benedictsson, and Carl Christian Hall.

Others Born in 1808

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1888

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 3,031 out of 7,253. Before him are Bruno S. (1932), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Elisa Radziwiłł (1803), Anni Albers (1899), Uli Edel (1947), and Thilo Sarrazin (1945). After him are Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), Gerhard Schröder (1910), Klaus Fichtel (1944), Werner Liebrich (1927), August Böckh (1785), and Tilly Fleischer (1911).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Samson Raphael Hirsch ranks 181. Before him are Dorothea von Schlegel (1764), Arno Schmidt (1914), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Alice Schwarzer (1942), Ludwig Rellstab (1799), and Ricarda Huch (1864). After him are Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Stefan Heym (1913), Solomon Perel (1925), Richard Dehmel (1863), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772).

German born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous