Moses Hirschel

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1754 – 1823

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Who was Moses Hirschel?

Maskil Moses Hirschel was a German writer and chess author.

Hirschel was a representative of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, in Kingdom of Prussia toward the end of the 18th century.

He published the first German translation of the chess writings of Gioachino Greco, together with a re-edition of Philipp Stamma in Das Schach des Herrn Giochimo Greco Calabrois und die Schachspiel Geheimniße des Arabers Philipp Stamma übersezt, verbeßert und nach einer ganz neuen Methode zur Erleichterung der Spielenden umgearbeitet. Hirschel's translation of the two chess classics was significant as their publication helped to popularize algebraic notationin Germany.

He also wrote Ueber das Schachspiel, dessen Nutzen, Gebrauch und Mißbrauch, psychologisch, moralisch und scientisisch erörtert.

Hirschel also published the following polemic works which were influential in the inner Jewish debates of the late 18th Century: Kampf der Jüdischen Hierarchie; Jüdische Intoleranz und Fanatismus in Breslau; Patriotische Bemerkungen; Ueber die Allzufrühen Ehen der Jüdischen Nation; Biographie des Jüdischen Gelehrten und Dichters Ephraim Moses Kuh; Apologie der Menschenrechte; Vier Briefe über Schlesien.

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Born
Sep 13, 1754
Died
1823

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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