Jacob Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Frank

Polish-Jewish religious leader

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1726

Place of Birth: Korolivka, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1791

Profession: rabbi, astrologer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jacob Joseph Frank (Hebrew: ???? ????; Polish: Jakub Józef Frank; born Jakub Lejbowicz; 1726 – December 10, 1791) was an 18th-century Polish-Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
The Jewish authorities in Poland excommunicated Frank and his followers due to his heretical doctrines that included deification of himself as a part of a trinity and other controversial concepts such as neo-Carpocratian "purification through transgression".Frank arguably created a new denomination of Judaism, now referred to as Frankism, which incorporated some aspects of Christianity into Judaism.
The development of Frankism was one of the consequences of the messianic movement of Sabbatai Zevi, the religious mysticism that followed socioeconomic changes among the Jews of Poland, Lithuania and Ruthenia.