Pinkus Friedrich Frankl (Hebrew: פנחס פראנקל; February 28, 1848 – August 22, 1887) was a German rabbi and scholar.

Biography[edit]

Pinkus Friedrich Frankl was born in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in 1848. He received his education at the yeshivah in Presburg, and later prepared for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau.^[1] Simultaneously, he pursued studies in Orientalia at the university of the same city, earning his doctoral degree in 1870.

In 1875, Frankl assumed the position of secretary of the Wiener Israelitische Allianz.^[2] In 1877, he succeeded Abraham Geiger as rabbi in Berlin. Frankl's responsibilities expanded in 1881 when he also took on a teaching role at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, lecturing in Jewish philosophy, medieval Hebrew literature, and homiletics.^[3] During this period, he collaborated with Heinrich Graetz on the publication of the Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.

Selected publications[edit]

• Ein Mutazilitischer Kalâm aus dem 10. Jahrhundert. Vienna: K. Gerold's Sohn. 1872.
• Studien über die Septuaginta und Peschito zu Jeremia. 1872.
• Karäische Studien. Krotoschin: B. L. Monasch & Co. 1876.
• Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte der Karäer. Berlin. 1887.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Fest und Gesegenheits-Predigten. Berlin: L. Simion. 1888.
• Zunz, Leopold (1884). "Piyyuṭe ben Ḳalir". Jubelschrift zum 90. Geburtstag des Dr. Leopold Zunz. Berlin. pp. 201–207. ISBN 9783487404776.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Piyyuṭim of Eleazar ha-Ḳalir.
• Aḥar reshef le-vaḳer. Vienna: G. Brög & P. Smolenskin. 1886. A criticism of Simḥah Pinsker's Liḳuṭe Ḳadmoniyot, first published in Ha-Shaḥar (1876–1877).

References[edit]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Frankl, Pinkus Friedrich". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 496.