Hocheimer, Henry
HOCHEIMER, HENRY
HOCHEIMER, HENRY (1818–1912), U.S. rabbi. Hocheimer was born in Ansbach, Bavaria, of a well-known rabbinical family. From 1844 to 1849 he assisted his father as rabbi of Ichenhausen, but had to leave Germany in 1849 because of his political activities. On arriving in the United States he became rabbi of the Reform Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. Ten years later he took office with the Fell's Point (Md.) Hebrew Friendship Congregation, where he remained until his retirement in 1892. Hocheimer published several articles and pamphlets and enjoyed a reputation as a scholar and a wit, but he took little part in public life. His son lewis hocheimer (1853–1929) was a noted Baltimore attorney and community leader, and the author of Hocheimer's Criminal Law (1899).
[Sefton D. Temkin]