(1866-1948)
Austrian historian, philologist, talmudic scholar, of Hungarian origin. He taught Bible and Hebrew at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Budapest. In 1906 he was appointed to teach the Bible, history and liturgy at the Vienna Rabbinical Seminary (the Israelitische-Theologische Lehranstalt); later he became head of the seminary and rector. When the Nazis came to power, he fled to England. He published studies in the fields of philology, history, the Bible, the Talmud, Christianity, and medieval literature.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.