Chatam Sofer (September 24, 1762 - October 3, 1839) - Jewish scholar, educator and writer. Chief Rabbi in Pressburg (now Bratislava).

Chatam Sofer was born into a religious family strongly based in Frankfurt as Moshe Schreiber. His father was a teacher and a Torah scribe, by which also received the surname. Sofer is semantically equivalent to the German word Schreiber (scribe). My mother was the granddaughter of Frankfurt's main rabbi, so no wonder that her son was seven years old dominated tracts of the Talmud. However excelled not only a knowledge of Hebrew sacred texts, later, based on studies in Mainz, penetrated into the mysteries of biology, anatomy, astronomy and mathematics.

In 1782 after disagreements with his father moved after his first teacher and respected Rabbi Adler Moravia. Among other places, he was also in Boskovice and in Prostejov.

October 13, 1806 he became rabbi in Pressburg, where he built a yeshiva, a school for the study of Talmud and Jewish Law, whose graduates often became rabbis. Pre�pursk� je�iva ??quickly gained fame and became the most important center of Orthodox Judaism in Europe. Sofer himself is still perceived as opponents of reform and defender of traditional Judaism. In Pre�purk this extraordinary rabbi and scholar lasted until his death in 1839th