Dresden
Dresden, the capital of Saxony in eastern Germany, had a Jewish community from the eighteenth century that built a notable synagogue (designed by Gottfried Semper) in the nineteenth. It was a center of modern German-Jewish cultural and religious life until the Nazi period.
1 teacher
Teachers who lived here
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme (1575–1624)
summons, examination 1624
Philipp Jakob Spener
Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705)
court chaplain 1686–1691
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf (1700–1760)
birthplace 1700
Zacharias Frankel
Zecharias Frankel (founder of positive-historical Judaism) (1801–1875)
rabbinate 1836
Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
professor 1925–1929