Cantor; born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, 1813; died in New York
city March 4, 1902. He was descended from a family of cantors,
traceable in an unbroken line as far back as 1612, every
generation having had at least one member devoted to the
profession. Naumburg went to America after 1848, and was elected
cantor of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel at Philadelphia,
Pa., which position he held from 1850 to 1860. In 1865 he was
chosen minister of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa.,
in which city he lived until within a few years of his death.
During his earlier years in America Naumburg acted as teacher
and reader in the synagogue of the Congregation Keneseth Israel
of Philadelphia. He prepared a metrical version in German of the
Book of Proverbs. - American Hebrew, March, 1902.