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Leopold Zunz (''), the Critical investigation of Jewish Literature , hymnology and ritual. BIOGRAPHY Leopold Zunz was born at Detmold in 1794, and settled in Berlin in 1815, studying at the University Of Berlin and obtaining a Doctorate from the University Of Halle . He was Ordained by the early Reformer , Aaron Chorin , and served for two years as preacher in the Reform New Synagogue in Berlin. He found the career uncongenial, and in 1840 he was appointed director of a ''Lehrerseminar,'' a post which relieved him from pecuniary troubles. Zunz was always interested in politics, and in 1848 addressed many public meetings. In 1850 he resigned his headship of the Teachers' Seminary, and was awarded a pension. Throughout his early and married life he was the champion of Jewish rights, and he did not withdraw from public affairs until 1874, the year of the death of his wife Adelheid Beermann, whom he had married in 1822. Together with other young men, among them the poet Heinrich Heine , Zunz founded the ''Verein fur Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden'' Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews in Berlin in 1819. In 1823, Zunz became the editor of the ''Zeitschrift fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthums'' for the Science of Judaism . The ideals of this ''Verein'' were not destined to bear religious fruit, but the "Science of Judaism" survived. Zunz "took no large share in Jewish Reform ", but never lost faith in the regenerating power of " Science " as applied to the traditions and literary legacies of the ages. He influenced Judaism from the study rather than From The Pulpit . Zunz died in Berlin in 1886. WORKS
Besides these works, Zunz published a new translation of the Bible , and wrote many essays which were afterwards collected as ''Gesammelte Schriften''. S. Maybaum published his biography, ''Aus dem Leben von Leopold Zunz'' (Berlin, 1894). REFERENCES
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