Wilhelm Freund, a German lexicographer, born of Hebrew parents at Kempen, Posen, Jan. 27, 1806. He studied philology in Berlin and Breslau, and in 1828 opened in the latter city a Jewish school, but abandoned this enterprise because of opposition from his orthodox coreligionists. Subsequently he was a teacher in Hirschberg, Silesia, and since 1855 he has been director of a Jewish school at Gieiwitz established according to his plan. His most important work is the Wurterbuch der lateirtischen Sprache (4 vols., Leipsic, 1834-'45), which is the basis of Andrews's Latin and English Lexicon"' (New York, 1850).