MEYER, SELIGMANN

MEYER, SELIGMANN (1853–1926), German rabbi and communal worker. Meyer was born in Reichelheim, Hesse   and studied at the University of Giessen. In 1876 he moved to Berlin where he attended the Orthodox rabbinical seminary established by azriel hildesheimer , at the same time working on the staff of the Orthodox Jewish weekly, Juedische Presse. He received his doctorate in 1878, was ordained rabbi in 1881, and a year later was appointed rabbi of regensburg where he remained until his death. As a result of his communal activities Regensburg became a center of Orthodoxy. Meyer devoted himself particularly to the Deutsche Israelitische Zeitung, a religious monthly family journal, which he founded in 1884 and which he edited until his death. (Henry Wasserman)