(1831-90)
German rabbi, scholar and writer. He was born in Verden. From 1854 he served as a rabbi in Mainz, where he founded the weekly Israelit, the principal voice of German Orthodoxy. Lehmann became one of the leaders and spokesmen of modern German Orthodox Jewry. He wrote historical novels, short stories and Sabbath lectures, and made a German edition of the Haggadah.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.