Isaac Noah Mannheimer

[clarification needed] When the Jews of Denmark were emancipated in 1814, confirmation was made obligatory, and the office of catechist was instituted by the state, Mannheimer being the first incumbent (1816).

Mannheimer, who was welcomed by both factions, soon succeeded in organizing a congregation, drafting a program and ritual on the traditional basis and harmonizing the views of the two parties.

Beer was closed, and the royal cabinet order of 26 December 1823, obtained by the Orthodox party, frustrated the attempt to adapt the old ritual to new forms by delivering German sermons in the chief synagogue.

In 1824 he married Liseke Damier, and in November of the same year he was called to what was then a new synagogue, the state-supported Stadttempel, in Vienna at the prompting of wealthy Reform businessman, Michael Lazar Biedermann.

[1][2] Because of Austrian law, he could not receive the title of preacher or rabbi; he was inducted, in June 1825, as headmaster of a religious school, or more specifically "Direktor der Wiener K. K. Genehmigten Oeffentlichen Israelitischen Religionsschule"; he dedicated the new synagogue in April 1826, and officiated there until 1829.

In 1826, he began the practice of recording the births, marriages, and deaths of the Viennese Jewish community; in 1831, he was formally commissioned by the government to maintain these in a central registry.

In 1848 Mannheimer was elected Brody to the Austrian Reichsrat, where he delivered two memorable speeches, one on the Jewish tax (5 October 1848)[1] and the other on the abolition of capital punishment (29 January 1849).

[4] Mannheimer published the following works: Prædikener Holdte ved det Mosaiske Troes-Samfund's Andagts-Övelser i Modersmaalet i Sommerhalvaaret 1819 (Copenhagen, 1819); Gottesdienstliche Vorträge Gehalten im Israelitischen Bethause zu Wien im Monate Tischri 5594 (Vienna, 1834); Gottesdienstliche Vorträge für die Wochenabschnitte des Jahres, vol.