Dávid Leimdörfer

Dr. David Leimdörfer (; September 17, 1851 – 4 November 1922) was a rabbi born in Hliník nad Vahom (also , , ), Kingdom of Hungary, 17 September 1851.

He was educated at his native place and at Zsolna (today Žilina), Waitzen (Vác), Budapest, Pressburg (today Bratislava), and Vienna. He became a military chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian army; from 1875 to 1883 he was rabbi at Nordhausen (Thuringia), 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, 1876 Die Kürzeste Darstellung der Nachbiblischen Gesch. für die Israelitische Schuljugend, ib. 1880 (4th ed. 1896) Die Chanuka Wunder, Magdeburg, 1888; and Die Lebende Megilla, Hamburg, 1888; both festival plays Der Hamburger Tempel, ib. 1889 Das Heilige Schriftwerk Koheleth im Lichte der Gesch, ib. 1892 Die Messias Apokalypse, Vienna, 1895 Das Psalter Ego in den Ichpsalmen, Hamburg, 1898 Zur Kritik des Buches Esther, Frankfurt, 1899 Die Lösung des Koheleträtsels Durch Ibn Baruch, Berlin, 1900 Der Altbiblische Priestersegen, Frankfurt, 1900 Mein erster Lehrer : aus dem Buche meines Gedächtnisses, Vienna, 1909