Zev Wolf ben Ḥayyim Mayer (or Maier, 1778-1850) was a Jewish educator, maskil, poet and author. The following was adapted from his obituary; "The talents that were already evident in his boyhood were the reason why Wolf Mayer was destined for a scientific career. At the age of thirteen he was one of the most distinguished in Talmud study. In his youth he came to Prague, where Rabbi Ezekiel Landau was the last chief rabbi in Bohemia and enjoyed his instruction. Under Landau's guidance, Mayer made excellent progress, but since he belonged to the Progress Party and made no secret of his liberal way of thinking, he was repeatedly attacked by the Zealot Party. Subsequently, in order to obtain a marriage license, he applied for the position of an extraordinary teacher of the Hebrew language at the Prague secondary school, which he received. For forty years he held this teaching post at the secondary school at which Pereẓ (Peter) Beer and Simon Gunz were his colleagues. Mayer was also active as a writer and as a Hebrew poet he had an important reputation. He also published numerous poems and various articles in Hebrew journals. Mayer was a well-known and popular personality in Jewish circles in Prague at the time. Several years before his death he suffered a stroke, was deprived of the use of all his senses, and became completely paralyzed. However, he retained his mental vigor to the last moment. A new, serious misfortune befell him when, three years before his death, his only daughter, the nurse and guardian of his ailing body, died, and he was left in dreadful misery."