Dávid Leimdörfer

Dr. David Leimdörfer was a rabbi born in Hliník nad Vahom, Kingdom of Hungary, 17 September 1851.
He was educated at his native place and at Zsolna, Waitzen, Budapest, Pressburg, and Vienna. He became a military chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian army; from 1875 to 1883 he was rabbi at Nordhausen, Prussia, and in 1883 he became rabbi at Hamburg Temple, where he was also principal of the school for religion and of the Jewish high school for girls. He died in 1922.

Literary works

Leimdörfer's works include:Kurzgefasste Religionslehre der Israeliten, Nordhausen, 1876Die Kürzeste Darstellung der Nachbiblischen Gesch. für die Israelitische Schuljugend, ib. 1880 Die Chanuka Wunder, Magdeburg, 1888; and Die Lebende Megilla, Hamburg, 1888; both festival playsDer Hamburger Tempel, ib. 1889Das Heilige Schriftwerk Koheleth im Lichte der Gesch, ib. 1892Die Messias Apokalypse, Vienna, 1895Das Psalter Ego in den Ichpsalmen, Hamburg, 1898Zur Kritik des Buches Esther, Frankfurt, 1899Die Lösung des Koheleträtsels Durch Ibn Baruch, Berlin, 1900Der Altbiblische Priestersegen, Frankfurt, 1900Mein erster Lehrer : aus dem Buche meines Gedächtnisses, Vienna, 1909