Baruch Jakob Placzek (1835–1922)

Austrian rabbi. Assistant to his father as rabbi of Moravia from 1861; Landesrabinner of Moravia from 1884. Chief rabbi of Brünn, 1905. Knight of the order of Francis Joseph. Curator of the Israelitische-Theologische Lehranstalt of Vienna. Founder of a number of philanthropic societies and honorary member of several political societies. Published poems, a novel, and works of natural history under the pseudonym Benno Planek.