Leopold Zityz, a German Hebraist, born in Detmold, of Jewish parents, Aug. 10, 1794. He studied under Wolf, De Wette, and Böckh in Berlin. He was preacher at the German synagogue in 1820-22, one of the editors of the Spener'sche Zeitung from 1824 to 1832, and from 1825 to 1829 also principal of the new Jewish communal school. In 1835 he became preacher at Prague, and from 1839 to 1850 was director of the normal seminary at Berlin. In 1845 he was adjoined to the commission appointed by the government for devising measures in regard to the educational and communal interests of the Jews in Prussia. His writings include Etwas über die rabbinische Litteratur (Berlin, 1818); Die gottesdienstlichen Vortrdge der Juden (1832), a work of wide scope, which placed him in the foremost rank of Jewish historical critics; Die Namen der Juden (1836); Die synagogale Poesie des Mittelalter (1855); Der Ritus des synagogalen Gottesdienstes geschichtlich entwickelt (1859); Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie (1865); and Irr-ha- Tzedelc (in Hebrew, 1874). The first volume of his Gesammelte Schriften was published in 1875.