Adolf Büchler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Büchler

Hungarian rabbi, theologian and historian

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1867

Place of Birth: Priekopa, Košice Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1939

Profession: rabbi, historian

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Adolf Büchler (also Adolph) (October 18, 1867, at Priekopa, Hungary (now Slovakia) – 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian rabbi, historian and theologian. In 1887 he began his theological studies at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, and at the same time studied in the Department of Philosophy of the university under Ignác Goldziher and Moritz Kármán.
Büchler continued his studies at the Breslau Seminary and in 1890 graduated with a PhD from Leipzig University, his dissertation being Zur Entstehung der Hebräischen Accente, which was later published in the Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1891. Büchler returned to Budapest to finish his theological studies and graduated as a rabbi in 1892.
He then went to Oxford for one year, where he worked under the direction of his uncle, Adolf Neubauer and published an essay, "The Reading of the Law and Prophets in a Triennial Cycle".
The same year he accepted a position as instructor at the Vienna Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching Jewish history, the Bible and the Talmud.
Büchler became Principal of Jews' College in London in 1906.