Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed "neo-Orthodoxy", his philosophy, together with that of Ezriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism. Wikipedia
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In 1846 Hirsch was called to the rabbinate of Nikolsburg in Moravia, and in 1847 he became chief rabbi of Moravia and Austrian Silesia. www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=773&letter=H
