Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn

Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn was a German-Jewish writer, translator, and Biblical commentator. He was a leading writer of the Haskalah.

Biography

He was born in Halle and died in Fürth. He was professor at the at Breslau from 1792 to 1807. After 1807, he became private tutor in Berlin of the sons of the financier Judah Herz Beer, and of Jakob Beer in particular. Letters between Jakob Beer and Aron Wolfssohn have been published among the Meyerbeer correspondence.
Besides translating much of the Tanakh into German, he published a Hebrew-German primer, commentaries, essays and the play Leichtsinn und Frömmelei.