Nachman Krochmal
Austrian-Jewish scholar (1785-1840)
Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (Hebrew: נחמן קְרוֹכְמַל; born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840) was a Jewish Galician philosopher, theologian, and historian.
Biography
Nachman HaKohen Krochmal began studying Talmud at an early age. He married at fourteen as was customary at the time. The girl was the daughter of a wealthy merchant named Habermann. The couple lived with the father-in-law in Zhovkva, near Lemberg, where Krochmal devoted himself to full-time study. He learned German and began to read the German philosophers, especially Immanuel Kant. He also read Latin and French classics, and Arabic and Syriac books. After suffering from health problems, he sought treatment in Lemberg. There he met Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport. He became Rapoport's teacher, a collaboration that was ultimately fruitful for "Jewish science" (Wissenschaft des Judentums).
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