Marcus Weissmann-Chajes was born in Tarnów in 1830, the son of Yitzḥak Leib.
Among his tutors were Israel Katz Rapoport, then av beit din of Tarnów.
[4] Part of this work appeared in the Maggid Mishneh (1872) under the title Aḥarit mered.
In 1872 he founded in Lemberg the Maggid Mishneh, a semimonthly periodical devoted to Jewish history and to Hebrew literature; of this publication, however, only four numbers appeared.
In the following year he settled in Vienna, where he edited the thirty-seventh number of Kokheve Yitzḥak [he].