Abraham Hochmuth (December 14, 1816 at Bán,

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– June 10, 1889 at

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) was a Hungarian

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. While attending the

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, he pursued the study of the

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with S. L. Rapoport. In 1846 he was appointed principal of the newly founded Jewish school at Miskolcz, where in 1850 he opened a private school. In 1852 he was called to the rabbinate of Kula; in 1860, to that of Veszprim. He was a prominent member of the Hungarian Jewish Congress and, later, of the board of the

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. He was a contributor to "''Ben Chananja''," "''Neuzeit''," and other periodicals. His works include: "''Die Jüdische Schule in Ungarn, Wie Sie Ist und Wie Sie Sein Soll''," Miskolcz, 1851; "''Leopold Löw als Theologe, Historiker und Publicist, Gewürdigt''," Leipsic, 1871; "''Gotteserkenntniss und Gottesverehrung auf Grundlage der Heiligen Schrift und Späterer Quellen, Bearbeitet als Lehr- und Handbuch zum Religionsunterricht''" (also in Hungarian), Budapest, 1882.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: *''Magyar Zsidó Szémle, vi. 543 et seq.''; *''Pallas Lex. ix. 264''.

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1816 births 1889 deaths 19th-century Hungarian rabbis People from Bánovce nad Bebravou Charles University alumni {{Hungary-rabbi-stub