{{Short description|Russian Hebrew scholar and educator}} {{Infobox writer | name = Wolf Adelsohn | image = | image_size = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Grand Duchy of Lithuania | death_date = {{death date|1866|08|13|df=y}} | death_place = Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | alma_mater = | genre = | subject = | movement = Haskalah | notableworks = | spouse = | children = | awards = | years_active = }} '''Ze'ev Wolf Adelsohn''' ({{Langx|he|זאב וולף אַדֶלסון}}; died 13 August 1866) was a Russian Hebrew scholar and educator.
==Biography== Wolf Adelsohn was born in Lithuania around the beginning of the 19th century. Little is known about his parentage. Adelsohn studied under Rabbi {{ill|lt=Manasseh ben Porath|Manasseh Ilier|he|מנשה מאיליה}}.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=The Haskalah Era and Its Personalities|first=Ya'acov|last=Netaneli-Rothman|editor-first=Y.|editor-last=Adini |title=Dubno: Sefer zikaron|chapter-url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dub061.html|location=Tel Aviv|date=1966|via=JewishGen|translator-first=Selwyn|translator-last=Rose|translator2-first=Pamela|translator2-last=Russ}}</ref> While still a young man, he secured a teaching position in the residence of Lippe Ettinger in Brest-Litovsk.
In 1833, he relocated to Dubno, where he exercised significant influence over the emerging cohort of Maskilim, while facing hostility from the Ḥasidim due to his rationalist perspectives. Later, he spent two years as an instructor in the household of Leon Chari in Meseritz before moving to Odessa. In Odessa, he grappled with financial hardship, and died in extreme poverty from starvation.
Notable among Adelsohn's students were the grammarian Ḥayyim Ẓebi Lerner<ref name=EJ>{{cite EJ|title=Lerner, Ḥayyim Ẓevi ben Todros|first=Yehuda|last=Slutsky|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lerner-hayyim-zevi-ben-todros}}</ref> and the Russian censor Vladimir Feodorov ({{ne|Ẓevi Hirsch Grünberg}}). Due to his philosophical character and disregard for conventional norms, he earned the epithet "Diogenes" within the Maskilic community. He composed a critical treatise on the Book of Esther, countering the viewpoints of Isaac Samuel Reggio. He also authored essays on Hebrew literature, which were acquired after his death by L. Chari and Joel Baer Falkovich.
==References== {{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Adelsohn, Wolf|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/795-adelsohn-wolf|first=David|last=Baron von Günzburg|author-link=David Günzburg|volume=1|page=190}} {{Reflist}}
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