Plessner, Solomon

Plessner, Solomon a Jewvish rabbi of Germany, was born at Breslau, April 19, 1797. He received a thorough rabbinic education, was in 1822 instructor of religion at Festenberg, Silesia, in 1830 instructor at the teacher's seminary in Berlin, and died at Posen, August 25, 1883, where he had acted as rabbi for nearly forty vears. He is the author of, Die apocryphischen Bucher des Alten Testaments in Hebraische ubersetzt, etc. (Breslau, 1833): — Materialien fur tiefere Einblicke in das Alte Testament und die rabbinischen Schriften (Berlin, 1836), also with the title Belehrungen u. Erbauungaen (ibid. eod.): — Die kostbare Perle oder das Gebet (1837-38): — Judisch- Mosaischer Religionsunterricht (1838-39): — Religiose Vortrage (1840): — Festreden (1841). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:107. (B.P.)