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Born January 8, 1870, in Pilsen, Bohemia, Hermann Vogelstein earned a Ph.D. and ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. He was an important German rabbi and a pivotal figure in the reform Judaism movement. His father, Heinemann Vogelstein was one of the founders of Reform Judaism. Hermann was the close friend of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenscweig. In 1897, he became rabbi at Königsberg, East Prussia. He was the author of "Die Landwirtschaft in Palästina zur Zeit der Mischnah" (Berlin, 1894) and, together with Rieger, of the first volume of "Geschichte der Juden in Rom"