Wise was educated in the Talmudic schools of Hungary, including the seminary at Eisenstadt, where he studied under Azriel Hildesheimer.
He assisted Bernard Fischer in revising the Buxtorf lexicon, and was for several years a director of schools in his native town.
He was for a time identified with the Haredi party in Hungary, acting as secretary to the organization Shomere ha-Datt, and editing a Judaeo-German weekly in its support.
Wise was the author of Beth Aharon, a religious school handbook; and he compiled a prayer-book for the use of his congregation.
His wife was Sabine Fisher (born c.1844), whom he married in 1864; they had three daughters and three sons, including Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise.