Portraits of Rabbi Moritz and Ida Güdemann.

Studio portraits of the Chief Rabbi of Vienna and his 2nd wifeLBIBorn in Hildesheim on February 19, 1835, Moritz Guedemann studied at the Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Breslau, and became rabbi of Magdeburg in 1862. He became a maggid in Vienna in 1866, and was appointed chief rabbi in 1868. He wrote extensively on Jewish apologetics and education. He died in Baden, near Vienna, on August 5, 1918