Jewish author and rabbi, son of Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler; born in Hanover, Prussia, on the 29th of May 1839. In 1845 he accompanied his father to London, where the latter was called as chief rabbi. He was educated at University College, London, and at the universities of Prague and Leipsic. Ordained a rabbi in 1862, he was in the following year appointed principal of the Jews’ College in London, and the following year was called to be rabbi of the Bayswater Synagogue. In 1879 he was appointed coadjutor to his father, and on the decease of the latter in 1890, Dr. Hermann Adler was unanimously chosen to fill the important position of chief rabbi. As a member of royal commissions and as a philanthropist, Dr. Adler has been active in behalf of the poor of every creed. More than any other one man, he drew public attention to the persecution of the Jews in Russia. He has contributed extensively to periodical literature on religious, social and literary themes. One of his principal works was the joint authorship of a reply to Dr. Colenso’s criticisms on the Pentateuch.
