(1845-1919)
German rabbi and historian. He was born in Beuthen, Silesia. He served as rabbi in Hildesheim from 1874 to 1892 and in Breslau from 1892. From 1910 he was president of the German Rabbinical Assembly. He published studies of medieval Jewish philosophers and the relation between Christian scholasticism and medieval Jewish philosophy.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.