Solomon H. Sonneschein

Solomon H Sonneschein, sometimes S. H. Sonneschein (June 24, 1839 - 1908) was a Hungarian-born rabbi at Temple Israel in St. Louis.

Sonnenschein was born in 1839 in Szent Marton, Hungarian Empire (now part of Slovakia). He received his ordination from a seminary in Boskowitz, Moravia (now the Czech Republic) and received his PhD from the University of Jena in 1864. That year he also married his wife Rosa Bär Fassel, who would go on to found the magazine The American Jewess.

Before arriving in the United States, Sonnenschein was a rabbi in Varaždin (Croatia) and Prague (Czech Republic) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After immigrating, he briefly served as a rabbi in New York City. In 1886, Sonneschein was the inaugural rabbi at Congregation Temple Israel in St. Louis, Missouri. He held this pulpit for four years, before abruptly resigning to take a position at Temple B'nai Yeshurun in Des Moines, Iowa in 1890, a position he held until retirement in 1905.