Maharam Mintz

A communal rabbi in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Hungary, the Maharam Mintz (Rabbi Moshe ben Yitzchak HaLevi Münz) served for decades as chief rabbi of Alt-Ofen (Óbuda) and, by government appointment, as chief rabbi of the Pest region. Trained in the Galician–Podolian rabbinic world and active in Brody before his Hungarian career, he became a central posek during the early emergence of religious reform tendencies in Hungary. His halachic rulings were collected in the responsa volume Shu"t Maharam Mintz, and he also wrote the sefer Pri Yaakov.