Rehfuss, Carl

Dr., a Jewish rabbi, was born Feb. 9, 1792, at Altdorf, in Breisgau. When fifteen years of age he went to Yverdun, in Switzerland, to attend the lectures at the Pestalozzi Institution there. He then entered the lyceum at Rastatt, and after due preparation was enabled to attend the lectures at the Heidelberg University, where he was promoted, Aug. 25, 1834, as doctor of philosophy. Having completed his studies, he was appointed preacher of the Jewish congregation at Heidelberg, where he died, Feb. 18, 1842. He translated into German the ס חחיים, a Jewish ritual used for the sick, etc. (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1834). Besides, he published a number of school- books. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:142 sq.; Kayserling, Bibliothek judischer Kanzzelredner, i, 358 sq.; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 115; Zunz, Die Monatstage des Kalendejiahres (Berlin, 1872; Engl. transl. by Rev. B. Pick in the Jewish Messenger, N. Y. 1874-75); Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, 1842, p. 248. (B. P.)