Adolf Büchler

Who was Adolf Büchler?

Adolf Büchler 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 as PhD 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". The same year he accepted a call 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.