EINHORN, IGNAZ (HORN, EDUARD)

(1825-75)

   Hungarian Reform rabbi and economist. He was born in Nove Mesto. He organized the society for the Reform of Judaism in Pest in 1847; later he served as rabbi of the society's first Reform Temple. He also helped to found the Society for the Propagation of Hungarian Language and Culture, and edited the first Jewish-Hungarian yearbook. After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1849 he settled in Paris, where he published works on economic problems. In 1867 he returned to Budapest and was elected to the Hungarian parliament.