ZECHARIAS

FRANKEL (1801-1875)  , Jewish theologian, one of the founders of the Breslau school of " historical Judaism." This school attempts to harmonize critical treatment of the documents of religion with fidelity to traditional beliefs and observances . For a time at least, the compromise succeeded in staying the disintegrating effects of the liberal movement in Judaism . Frankel was the author of several valuable works, among them Septuagint Studies, an Introduction to the Mishnah (1859), and a similar work on the Palestinian Talmud (1870) . He also edited the Monatsschrift, devoted to Jewish learning on modern lines . But his chief claim to fame rests on his headship of the Breslau Seminary . This was founded in 1854 for the training of rabbis who should combine their rabbinic studies with secular courses at the university . The whole character of the rabbinate has been modified under the influence of this, the first seminary of the kind . (I .