Career
He was ordained a Baptist minister. In his day, he was one of the most successful and controversial Christian evangelists to the Jews. In 1930, Cohn was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian college.
Cohn states in his autobiography that he was ordained as a rabbi in his native Hungary in the 1880s, though Jews doubted this claim.
The relationship between Cohn and his detractors was acrimonious, resulting in several lawsuits and counter-complaints. Cohn denied the accusations and the court refused to act upon the charge.
