Samuel Löw Brill (September 14, 1814 – April 8, 1897) was a
Hungarian rabbi and
Talmudical scholar born in
Budapest. He was educated by his father, Azriel Brill (1778-1853), who was teacher and associate rabbi at
Pest, Hungary, and the author of several works in the
Hebrew language. After having been carefully grounded at home in Hebrew studies, and graduating with honors from the Protestant Lyceum of his native city, he attended the Talmud schools at Eisenstadt (1832) [under M. J. Perls], Presburg (1834-35) [under
Moses Sofer], and
Prague (1836), where he obtained, at the age of twenty-two, his rabbinical degree. In 1842-43 he was registered in the
University of Berlin, where he attended the courses of famous teachers, such as
Boeckh, the classical philologist, Ritter, the geographer,
Leopold Ranke, the historian,
Schelling, and others, and associated with
Leopold Zunz and
Michael Sachs.