Markus Bär Friedenthal

Who was Markus Bär Friedenthal?

Markus Bär Friedenthal was a German Jewish banker and scholar.

Although one of the leading bankers at Breslau, he devoted much time to study and to communal affairs. His special interest lay in the field of religious philosophy and dogma, which he treated rather in an apologetic than in a purely scientific manner. His works nevertheless betrayed great sagacity, and had the merit, coming as they did from a conservative, of opening to the Talmudists the field of modern critical studies.