Geiger, Abraham (1810–1874). A founding father of the Reform
movement in Germany. Geiger was also one of the outstanding scholars from the
second generation of Jewish studies. He applied his scholarly research, which
emphasized the human authorship of the Torah and demonstrated the progressive
nature of Jewish law, to the reforms he hoped to institute in his own day. He
served as a pulpit rabbi for 35 years and was instrumental in the establishment
of the first Reform rabbinical seminary in Berlin in 1870.
Courtesy: Professor Shai Cherry