(1793-1865)
Austrian preacher and liturgist. He was born in Copenhagen, where he taught religion and held services for adherents of Reform Judaism. In 1824 he became a preacher at the new Seitenstetten Synagogue in Vienna. He later adopted a more Conservative approach to Reform Judaism, and translated the prayerbook and the festival prayers into German. In 1848 he was elected to the Reichstag where he advocated Jewish rights.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.