Adolf Büchler (also Adolph) (18 October 1867 in

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(now

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) – 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian

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, historian and

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Biography

In 1887, he began his theological studies at the

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, and at the same time studied in the Department of Philosophy of the university under

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and Moritz Kármán. Büchler continued his studies at the Breslau Seminary and in 1890 graduated ''with a PhD'' from

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, 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

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to finish his theological studies and graduated as a rabbi in 1892. He then went to

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for one year, where he worked under the direction of his uncle,

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and published an essay, ''"The Reading of the Law and Prophets in a Triennial Cycle"''.''

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'', April, 1893. The same year he accepted a position as instructor at the Vienna Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching

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, the

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and the

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. Büchler became Principal of

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in London in 1906.

Selected works

* ''Die Priester und der Cultus im Letzten Jahrzehnt des Tempelbestandes'', Vienna, 1895 * ''Die Tobiaden und die Oniaden'', Vienna 1899 * ''Das Grosse Synedrion in Jerusalem und das Beth-Din in der Quaderkammer des Jerusalemischen Tempels'', Vienna 1902. He also contributed some essays to the ''Jewish Quarterly Review'', the ''Monatsschrift'', the ''

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'', and other periodicals, mainly on the last days of the

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References

Sources

* ''Adolph Büchler memorial volume'' (

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, 1956) *

External links

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