(1789-1842)
German educator and proponent of Reform. He was born in Mainz and founded a Jewish boys' school there based on the principles of Reform Judaism. In 1825 he was appointed teacher and preacher at the Philanthropin high school in Frankfurt am Main. With Isaac Marcus Jost he edited the Hebrew periodical Zion. In his writings he attempted to show that since talmudic Judaism represented a reform of biblical Judaism, Reform Judaism is a legitimate approach to the Jewish tradition.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.