(1848-1917)
Austrian rabbi and scholar. He was born in Prague. He served as a rabbi in Brüx, Bohemia (1874-7), Zurich (1877-81), Jungbunzlau, Bohemia (1881-6), and Prague (1886-1917). In Zurich he founded the first Swiss-Jewish weekly. In 1899 Franz Joseph I awarded him a gold medal for 25 years' service as a military chaplain. He was the first rabbi in Austria to be appointed a government professor of religion and inspector of religious education. His writings include studies of Bohemian Jewish history.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.