(1827-1903)
American Reform rabbi, liturgist and Zionist leader. He was born in Pinne, in the Posen district. He was a teacher to the Reform congregation in Berlin from 1855 to 1860, and served as rabbi of the progressive Congregation of British Jews in Manchester, England, from 1869 to 1873. He then emigrated to New York, where he became co-rabbi at Temple Emanu-El. He published a hymnal and a devotional compilation.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.