{{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = | name = Solomon Breuer | honorific-suffix = | title = | image = | caption = | synagogue = | synagogueposition = | yeshiva = | yeshivaposition = | organisation = | organisationposition = | began = | ended = | predecessor = | successor = | rabbi = | rebbe = | kohan = | hazzan = | rank = | other_post = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Shlomo Zalman Breuer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|6|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Pilisvörösvár, Hungary, Austria | death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|7|17|1850|6|27|df=y}} | death_place = Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau, Germany | yahrtzeit = | buried = | nationality = | denomination = | residence = | dynasty = | parents = | father = | mother = | spouse = {{Marriage|Sophie Hirsch|1876}} | children = Joseph Breuer<br>Isaac Breuer<br>{{Interlanguage link multi|Samson Breuer|de}}<br>{{Interlanguage link multi|Raphael Breuer|de}} | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = | semicha = | signature = }} [[File:Mordechai Breuer gravestone - Pilisvörösvár.jpg|thumb|Solomon Breuer's father gravestone in Pilisvörösvár]] '''Solomon''' ('''Shlomo Zalman''') '''Breuer''' (27 June 1850 – 17 July 1926) was a Hungarian-born German rabbi, initially in Pápa, Hungary, and from the early 1890s in Frankfurt as a successor of his father-in-law Samson Raphael Hirsch.<ref name=Landesman>{{cite book |first=Dovid |last=Landesman |first2=David |last2=Kranzler |title=Rav Breuer: His Life and His Legacy |publisher=Feldheim Publishers |location=Jerusalem |year=1998 |isbn=1-58330-163-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44uOAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>
==Life and work== Solomon Breuer was born in Pilisvörösvár, Hungary,<ref name=Landesman />{{rp|6}} into a family of German-speaking merchants. He studied with his maternal grandfather rabbi Simon Wiener. At the age of twelve he entered the ''yeshiva'' of Nitra, but returned to study with his grandfather until he could enroll in the Pressburg Yeshiva, then headed by Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer (the ''Ksav Sofer''). He then proceeded to university studies and eventual doctorate in Mainz, where he became acquainted with rabbi Marcus Lehmann, one of the leaders of German Orthodoxy.<ref name=Landesman/>
Breuer married Sophie, youngest daughter of rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch of Frankfurt, in 1876, and soon after accepted the rabbinate of Pápa in Hungary. His father-in-law died in December 1888, and Breuer succeeded him as the rabbi of the Frankfurt ''Austrittsgemeinde'' (secessioned community) in 1890.<ref name=Landesman/>
In Frankfurt he participated in the Freie Vereinigung, a national organisation of Orthodox communities, and created its rabbinical representative body, the ''Verband der orthodoxen Rabbiner Deutschlands'' (Union of Orthodox rabbis in Germany). He would later also be one of the founding members of Agudas Yisroel, and strongly opposed political Zionism; he viewed participation in the Zionist movement as an implicit approval of the idea that a Jewish state can replace Jewish religious identity.<ref name=Landesman/>
As part of his efforts to foster Jewish education in Frankfurt, Breuer opened a ''yeshiva'', the ''Torah Lehranstalt'', in 1893, which he modeled after the ''yeshivot'' he had attended in Hungary.<ref name=Landesman/>
Little of Breuer's work remains in writing. Collected sermons were published in English under the title ''Chochmo u'Mussar'' in three volumes between 1972 and 1977 by his grandson Jacob Breuer,<ref>{{cite book |author=Rabbi Dr Salomon Breuer |title=Chochmo U'Mussar |publisher=Philipp Feldheim |location=Jerusalem |year=1996 |isbn=0-87306-753-3}}</ref> and some of his responsa appeared in the Hebrew volume ''Divrei Yosef'', which mainly contained the work of his son Joseph.<ref name=Landesman/>
Breur had eight children. Simon died in childhood. {{Interlanguage link multi|Raphael Breuer|de}} was rabbi in Aschaffenburg, Joseph Breuer taught at the Torah Lehranstalt and recreated the Frankfurt community in 1940's New York, Isaac Breuer was an ideologue of Agudat Yisrael, Moses Breuer was a linguist, {{Interlanguage link multi|Samson Breuer|de}} a mathematician and actuary, and Joshua Breuer a pediatrician. His daughter Hannah Breuer married Edmund Meyer, a lawyer in Cologne.<ref name=Landesman/> Breuer died in Frankfurt.
==References== {{reflist}} {{Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah}}
==External links== * [https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/446423 Salomon Breuer papers] (digitized), in RG 31 Germany (Vilna Archives) Collection, at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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