He was born in Września in 1809 as the son of a merchant Lewin Mendel. He was one of the first naturalized Jews to settle in Trzemeszno in 1835. A record in the books of the Trzemeszno Jewish community that he lived in Kamieniec dates back to 1841. He married Rosalia née Moses. He was a rentier. He died on December 10, 1881 in Trzemeszno.