Adolph Neubauer

Born in Nagybánya, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Baia Mare, Romania), Adolph Neubauer received a traditional primary education at home. He eventually moving to Prague to study with Solomon Judah Leib Rapoport, chief rabbi of the city. He studied at the University of Prague and the University of Munich before settling in England in 1865. In 1868, he accepted a position cataloguing Hebrew manuscripts at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, and he coordinated several significant acquisitions for the library, including parts of the Cairo Geniza. After policies excluding Jews from full titles at Oxford were changed, Neubauer was made the first reader of rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford.