Adolf Büchler

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Adolf Büchler (also Adolph) (born October 18, 1867, at Priekopa, Hungary; died 1939) was an Austrian rabbi, historian and theologian.

In 1887 he began his theological studies at the Budapest Seminary, 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 as Ph. D. at Leipzig University, his dissertation being Zur Entstehung der Hebräischen Accente, which was afterward published in the Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften of 1891.

Büchler returned to Budapest to finish his theological studies, and was graduated as 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"^[1]. The same year he accepted a call as instructor at the Vienna Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching Jewish history, Bible, and Talmud. He became Principal of Jews' College in London, in 1906.

[edit] Works (incomplete list)

"Die Priester und der Cultus im Letzten Jahrzehnt des Tempelbestandes," Vienna, 1895
"Die Tobiaden und die Oniaden," ib. 1899
"Das Grosse Synedrion in Jerusalem und das Beth-Din in der Quaderkammer des Jerusalemischen Tempels," ib. 1902.

He has also contributed some essays to the Jewish Quarterly Review, the Monatsschrift, the Revue des Études Juives, and other periodicals, mainly on the last days of the Second Temple.