Chaim David Lippe

Chaim David Lippe was an Austrian-Jewish publisher and bibliographer.

Biography

Chaim David Lippe was born in 1823 in Stanisławów, Galicia. He later relocated to Tschernowitz and Eperies, where he took on the roles of teacher and cantor.
In 1873, Lippe settled in Vienna, where he ran a Jewish publishing-house, which issued several popular works. He himself edited a bibliographical lexicon of modern Jewish literature, Ch. D. Lippe's Bibliographisches Lexicon der Gesammten Jüdischen Literatur der Gegenwart und Address-Anzeiger.
His brother was the Zionist activist Dr. Karpel Lippe.