Bernhard Münz

Bernhard Münz (1 February 1856 – 17 December 1919) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, and librarian.

He was born in Leipnik (now Lipník, Czech Republic) to Jewish parents Johanna (née Weinreb) and Jakob Münz.

[2] Münz studied classical philology and philosophy at the Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck, and Munich, completing a Ph.D. at the former in 1877 under the supervision of Franz Brentano.

[2] He wrote magazine articles for various publications, including Ost und West, the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, the Neue Freie Presse, and Deutschland.

[1] He promoted Salomon Wininger's project of compiling a Jewish national biography and was on the editorial board from 1915; the first volume appeared in 1925.