German writer and theologian; born in Kojetein, Moravia, April 27, 1846; son of Rabbi Jakob Br� He was educated at Kremsier and at the universities of Vienna, Prague, and Breslau, and received his theological training at the Jewish Theological Seminary at the last-named city. In 1871 he received a call as teacher at the Philanthropin in Frankfort-on-the-Main. Here he founded (1879) the Mendelssohn Society and edits the "Popul�r-Wissenschaftliche Monatsbl�tter."
He is the author of "Fremdsprachliche Redensarten und Ausdr�cklich als Fremdsprachlich BezeichneteW�rter in den Talmuden und Midraschim," Leipsic, 1869; "Trachten der Juden im Nachbiblischen Alterthume," part , Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1873; "Das Samaritanische Targum zum Pentateuch, zum Ersten Male in Hebr�ischer Quadratschrift Nebst einem Anhange Textkritischen Inhaltes Herausgegeben," ib. 1875; "Zur Geschichte und Literatur der Samaritaner," ib. 1876; "Beitr�ge zur Kenntniss der J�disch-Deutschen Literatur," in Br�ll's "Jahrb�cher," 1877,