Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer

Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer
Born(1815-03-13)March 13, 1815 (1 Adar II 5575 Anno Mundi)
Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg monarchy, now Bratislava, Slovakia
DiedDecember 31, 1871(1871-12-31) (aged 56) (19 Teves 5632 Anno Mundi)
Resting placeBratislava
NationalityHungarian
Other namesKsav Sofer
OccupationRabbi
Known forKsav Sofer Responsa on Shulchan Aruch
Ksav Sofer on Gittin
Ksav Sofer on the Pentateuch
SpouseChavah Leah Weiss
ChildrenYaakov Akiva Sofer – (d. 1912)
Moshe M. Sofer (d. 1927)
Simcha Bunim Sofer – (d. 1907)
Yitzchak Leib Sofer – (d. 1907)
Shimon Sofer (1850–1944)
Shlomo Sofer
Sarel Sofer
Rachel Sofer
Hindel Sofer
Rosa Sofer
ParentMoshe Sofer & Sara Eger

Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (German: Abraham Samuel Benjamin Schreiber), also known by his main work Ksav Sofer or Ketav Sofer (trans. Writ of the Scribe), (1815–1871), was one of the leading rabbis of Hungarian Jewry in the second half of the nineteenth century and rosh yeshiva of the famed Pressburg Yeshiva.