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Ascher, Saul

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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German author and translator; born at Berlin Feb. 8, 1767; died there Dec. 8, 1822. He began his literary career as an advocate of Jewish emancipation; gradually extending his activities to general topics, chiefly historical, political, and religious. His works are: "Bemerkungen über die Bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden, Veranlasst bei der Frage: Soll der Jude Soldat Werden?" Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1788; "Scholien, oder Fragmente der Philosophie und Kunst," Berlin, 1790; the same under the title "Philosophische Betrachtungen über Empfindungs- und Erkenntnisskraft," Berlin, 1793; "Leviathan, oder über Religion in Rücksicht des Judenthums," Berlin, 1792; "Eisenmenger der Zweite; nebst einem Vorangesetzten Sendschreiben an Herrn Professor Fichte in Jena," Berlin, 1794; "Graf von Thein ein Wundarzt," in the Berlin "Monatsschrift," Berlin, 1794; "Napoleon, oder über die Fortschritte der Regierung," 1808; "H. Grégoire: die Neger, ein Beitrag zur Menschen- und Staatskunde," translated from the French, 1809; "Biographisch-Historische Skizzen" (2 vols.); "Theodiskus, Unterhaltungen in den Abendstunden" (2 vols., 1813); "Die Germanomanie," 1815; a translation from Mandeville's "Fables of the Bees," with a commentary, 1817; "Die Wartburgfeier," 1818; "Idee einer Pressfreiheit und Censurordnung," 1818; "Ansicht von der Zukunft des Christentums," second edition, 1819; "Der Geistesaristokratismus," 1819; "Europa's Politischer und Ethischer Zustand seit dem Congress von Aachen," 1820.

Bibliography:
  • J. S. Mensel, Das Gelehrte Teutschland oder Lexicon der Jetztlebenden Teutschen Schriftsteller, 1:98;
  • Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, 2d ed., 11:136,155,229,333;
  • Rose, New General Biographical Dictionary, 2:248;
  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:57.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Ascher, Saul'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/ascher-saul.html. 1901.
 
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