"DR. HOCHHEIMER HISTORIC FIGURE- Came From Germany With Carl Schurz; Spoke for Confederacy"
In the death of Dr. Henry H. Hochheimer, say many men who knew him, Baltimore has lost a historic figure whose active intellectual life ranged from the days of 1848 in Germany, when the modern German Empire began to take shape, to the late nineties in this country.
As Rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from '49 to '59, and later as rabbi of the Eden Street Synagogue, he did not hesitate to express his sympathies for the Southern cause from the pulpit. Many of his friends feared in those days that he would be arrested by the Union authorities on account of these utterances. A friend and associate of Carl Schurz, in Germany, he came to this country with the great German in 1848.
His interest in public life in this country continued long after he retired from active labors and became rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue in 1892. He was an ardent admirer of Cleveland and of Thomas Bayard. He was very much interested in municipal politics.
He was one of the first to introduce choir singing, the seating of women on the floor of the synagogue in family pews with men and other customs now characteristic of the Reformed synagogues.
Born in Ansabach, Bavaria, on October 3, 1818, the son and the grandson of a rabbi, his grandfather, Moses Hoccheimer, having been the grand rabbi of Bavaria, he was educated in the Ansbach gymnasium and at the University of Munich, where he took his Ph.D. degree. After his graduation he taught, Greek, Latin, the Semitic languages and French at this university.
In the days of his greatest intellectual activity he was a great friend of the Germans of the city, such men as Frederick Raine, the editor of the German Correspondent, being fond of gathering with him over luncheons in the German restaurants of the city, his wit making him a delightful companion. One of his last public speeches was at the dedication of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation's Madison Avenue Temple, when it moved from Lloyd and Watson streets to its present home, at Madison avenue and Robert street. One of his witticisms which is still remembered had been expressed in 1859, when he left this congregation. It is said that some of its members went to him and told him that they would be glad to give him a recommendation.
"My best recommendation," he is said to have answered, "is the fact that I was able to remain with you for 15 years."
Dr. Hoccheimer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rosa Hoccheimer; by a son, Lewis Hoccheimer, a well-known member of the Baltimore bar and author of several books on legal subjects, and by a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Benesh.
The funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Adolph Guttmacher and Rev. Henry W. Schneeberger will officiate. Interment will be in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, on the Philadelphia road.
The Evening Sun, 26 Jan. 1912, Fri., p.2.
Peacefully and without suffering, Rev. Dr. Henry Hochheimer, rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue and the oldest rabbi in this city, died at 9 o'clock last night at the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Broadway and Monument street, where he had made his home for the last 14 years. The venerable rabbi retained his faculties until the last and, though feeble, he was able to recognize his friends and physicians.
Death was caused by a general decline due to old age.
In the death of Dr. Henry H. Hochheimer, say many men who knew him, Baltimore has lost a historic figure whose active intellectual life ranged from the days of 1848 in Germany, when the modern German Empire began to take shape, to the late nineties in this country.
As Rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from '49 to '59, and later as rabbi of the Eden Street Synagogue, he did not hesitate to express his sympathies for the Southern cause from the pulpit. Many of his friends feared in those days that he would be arrested by the Union authorities on account of these utterances. A friend and associate of Carl Schurz, in Germany, he came to this country with the great German in 1848.
His interest in public life in this country continued long after he retired from active labors and became rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue in 1892. He was an ardent admirer of Cleveland and of Thomas Bayard. He was very much interested in municipal politics.
He was one of the first to introduce choir singing, the seating of women on the floor of the synagogue in family pews with men and other customs now characteristic of the Reformed synagogues.
Born in Ansabach, Bavaria, on October 3, 1818, the son and the grandson of a rabbi, his grandfather, Moses Hoccheimer, having been the grand rabbi of Bavaria, he was educated in the Ansbach gymnasium and at the University of Munich, where he took his Ph.D. degree. After his graduation he taught, Greek, Latin, the Semitic languages and French at this university.
In the days of his greatest intellectual activity he was a great friend of the Germans of the city, such men as Frederick Raine, the editor of the German Correspondent, being fond of gathering with him over luncheons in the German restaurants of the city, his wit making him a delightful companion. One of his last public speeches was at the dedication of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation's Madison Avenue Temple, when it moved from Lloyd and Watson streets to its present home, at Madison avenue and Robert street. One of his witticisms which is still remembered had been expressed in 1859, when he left this congregation. It is said that some of its members went to him and told him that they would be glad to give him a recommendation.
"My best recommendation," he is said to have answered, "is the fact that I was able to remain with you for 15 years."
Dr. Hoccheimer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rosa Hoccheimer; by a son, Lewis Hoccheimer, a well-known member of the Baltimore bar and author of several books on legal subjects, and by a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Benesh.
The funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Adolph Guttmacher and Rev. Henry W. Schneeberger will officiate. Interment will be in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, on the Philadelphia road.
The Evening Sun, 26 Jan. 1912, Fri., p.2.
Peacefully and without suffering, Rev. Dr. Henry Hochheimer, rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue and the oldest rabbi in this city, died at 9 o'clock last night at the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Broadway and Monument street, where he had made his home for the last 14 years. The venerable rabbi retained his faculties until the last and, though feeble, he was able to recognize his friends and physicians.
Death was caused by a general decline due to old age.
"DR. HOCHHEIMER HISTORIC FIGURE- Came From Germany With Carl Schurz; Spoke for Confederacy"
In the death of Dr. Henry H. Hochheimer, say many men who knew him, Baltimore has lost a historic figure whose active intellectual life ranged from the days of 1848 in Germany, when the modern German Empire began to take shape, to the late nineties in this country.
As Rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from '49 to '59, and later as rabbi of the Eden Street Synagogue, he did not hesitate to express his sympathies for the Southern cause from the pulpit. Many of his friends feared in those days that he would be arrested by the Union authorities on account of these utterances. A friend and associate of Carl Schurz, in Germany, he came to this country with the great German in 1848.
His interest in public life in this country continued long after he retired from active labors and became rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue in 1892. He was an ardent admirer of Cleveland and of Thomas Bayard. He was very much interested in municipal politics.
He was one of the first to introduce choir singing, the seating of women on the floor of the synagogue in family pews with men and other customs now characteristic of the Reformed synagogues.
Born in Ansabach, Bavaria, on October 3, 1818, the son and the grandson of a rabbi, his grandfather, Moses Hoccheimer, having been the grand rabbi of Bavaria, he was educated in the Ansbach gymnasium and at the University of Munich, where he took his Ph.D. degree. After his graduation he taught, Greek, Latin, the Semitic languages and French at this university.
In the days of his greatest intellectual activity he was a great friend of the Germans of the city, such men as Frederick Raine, the editor of the German Correspondent, being fond of gathering with him over luncheons in the German restaurants of the city, his wit making him a delightful companion. One of his last public speeches was at the dedication of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation's Madison Avenue Temple, when it moved from Lloyd and Watson streets to its present home, at Madison avenue and Robert street. One of his witticisms which is still remembered had been expressed in 1859, when he left this congregation. It is said that some of its members went to him and told him that they would be glad to give him a recommendation.
"My best recommendation," he is said to have answered, "is the fact that I was able to remain with you for 15 years."
Dr. Hoccheimer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rosa Hoccheimer; by a son, Lewis Hoccheimer, a well-known member of the Baltimore bar and author of several books on legal subjects, and by a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Benesh.
The funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Adolph Guttmacher and Rev. Henry W. Schneeberger will officiate. Interment will be in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, on the Philadelphia road.
The Evening Sun, 26 Jan. 1912, Fri., p.2.
Peacefully and without suffering, Rev. Dr. Henry Hochheimer, rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue and the oldest rabbi in this city, died at 9 o'clock last night at the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Broadway and Monument street, where he had made his home for the last 14 years. The venerable rabbi retained his faculties until the last and, though feeble, he was able to recognize his friends and physicians.
Death was caused by a general decline due to old age.
In the death of Dr. Henry H. Hochheimer, say many men who knew him, Baltimore has lost a historic figure whose active intellectual life ranged from the days of 1848 in Germany, when the modern German Empire began to take shape, to the late nineties in this country.
As Rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from '49 to '59, and later as rabbi of the Eden Street Synagogue, he did not hesitate to express his sympathies for the Southern cause from the pulpit. Many of his friends feared in those days that he would be arrested by the Union authorities on account of these utterances. A friend and associate of Carl Schurz, in Germany, he came to this country with the great German in 1848.
His interest in public life in this country continued long after he retired from active labors and became rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue in 1892. He was an ardent admirer of Cleveland and of Thomas Bayard. He was very much interested in municipal politics.
He was one of the first to introduce choir singing, the seating of women on the floor of the synagogue in family pews with men and other customs now characteristic of the Reformed synagogues.
Born in Ansabach, Bavaria, on October 3, 1818, the son and the grandson of a rabbi, his grandfather, Moses Hoccheimer, having been the grand rabbi of Bavaria, he was educated in the Ansbach gymnasium and at the University of Munich, where he took his Ph.D. degree. After his graduation he taught, Greek, Latin, the Semitic languages and French at this university.
In the days of his greatest intellectual activity he was a great friend of the Germans of the city, such men as Frederick Raine, the editor of the German Correspondent, being fond of gathering with him over luncheons in the German restaurants of the city, his wit making him a delightful companion. One of his last public speeches was at the dedication of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation's Madison Avenue Temple, when it moved from Lloyd and Watson streets to its present home, at Madison avenue and Robert street. One of his witticisms which is still remembered had been expressed in 1859, when he left this congregation. It is said that some of its members went to him and told him that they would be glad to give him a recommendation.
"My best recommendation," he is said to have answered, "is the fact that I was able to remain with you for 15 years."
Dr. Hoccheimer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rosa Hoccheimer; by a son, Lewis Hoccheimer, a well-known member of the Baltimore bar and author of several books on legal subjects, and by a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Benesh.
The funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Adolph Guttmacher and Rev. Henry W. Schneeberger will officiate. Interment will be in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, on the Philadelphia road.
The Evening Sun, 26 Jan. 1912, Fri., p.2.
Peacefully and without suffering, Rev. Dr. Henry Hochheimer, rabbi emeritus of the Eden Street Synagogue and the oldest rabbi in this city, died at 9 o'clock last night at the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, Broadway and Monument street, where he had made his home for the last 14 years. The venerable rabbi retained his faculties until the last and, though feeble, he was able to recognize his friends and physicians.
Death was caused by a general decline due to old age.
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