Background
Porges was born in Prostějov in Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire.
Porges was born in Prostějov in Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire.
He was educated in his native town Prostějov, at the gymnasium of Olomouc, and at the University of Olomouc (Doctor of Philosophy 1869) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (rabbi 1869) of Breslau (Wrocław).
He became successively rabbi at Nakel (Nakło nad Notecią) (1875), Mannheim (1879), Pilsen (1880), Karlovy Vary (1882), and Leipzig. He began officiating in the last city in 1888. Porges died in Würzburg.