He was ordained a rabbi at the rabbinical seminary in Vienna and received a doctorate in philosophy from the German University in Prague.
As an administrator, he granted financial aid to poor students and started programs to encourage Galician Jews to work in crafts, industry, and agriculture.
During that time, he was also the main secretary of the Va‘adat ha-‘Ezrah, which helped the city's Jews and refugees.
After the Austrians regained control of the city, he volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian Army and served as a chaplain in the Italian front.
[4] In 1932, he became the Polish Consul-General at Tel Aviv, with jurisdiction at Jaffa and authorization from Alexander K. Sloan to act as U.S. Consul at Jerusalem for Palestine and Transjordan.
[10] The funeral procession stopped outside the Great Synagogue, where Chief Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel spoke.
He was buried in the Old Cemetery, where D. Smilansky, Zvi Karl, Dr. R. Rosenbaum, S. Margalit, and J. Straus delivered eulogies and his son Gideon recited the doxology.