 He studied at the University of Breslau from 1884 to 1887, obtaining a (Ph.D.), while pursuing his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau.In 1890 he became rabbi to Weilburg, and two years later assumed leadership as land rabbi of the "Land Rabbinate of Hildesheim" in the Province of Hanover, retiring in 1935.He died December 18, 1941, in Mainz, People's State of Hesse.