CHORIN

chorin, aaron (1766-1844), hungarian rabbi and pioneer of religious reform. he favoured the use of the organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools on modern lines. chorin was thus regarded as a leader of the newer judaism. he also interested himself in public affairs; and his son francis was a hungarian deputy. see l. low, _gesammelte schriften_, ii. 251. chorizontes ("separators"), the name given to the alexandrian critics who denied the single authorship of the _iliad_ and _odyssey_, and held that the latter poem was the work of a later poet. the most important of them were the grammarians xeno and hellanicus; aristarchus was their chief opponent (see homer).