David Friesenhausen [SEP] country of citizenship
Friesenhausen writes in support of the Copernican heliocentrism, one of the first Jews to do so.
Early life.
In 1756, David Friesenhausen was born in Friesenhausen, a small community in southern Germany, northeast of Frankfurt. In 1783, Friesenhausen married, but was divorced four years later. For the first 30 years of his life, Friesenhausen dedicated himself exclusively Torah study. His teachers included Joseph Steinhardt at Fürth and Moses Sofer of Pressburg. The latter attested that Friesenhausen was one of the outstanding students in his yeshiva
David Friesenhausen
David ben Meir Cohen Friesenhausen (1756–1828) was a German-Hungarian astronomer, "maskil", mathematician, and rabbi. Friesenhausen was one of the first proponents of "Torah im Derech Eretz", a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism that formalizes a relationship between traditionally observant Judaism and the modern world. He proposed a dual curriculum of Jewish and secular studies for all rabbinic candidates, a radically innovative idea at that time. Friesenhausen wrote "Mosedot Tebel" and "Kelil Heshbon". In the former,