Ze'ev Wolf Buchner

Ze'ev Wolf ben David ha-Kohen Buchner (Hebrew: זאב וואלף בן דוד הכהן בוכנר; 1750–1820), also known as the Razbad (Hebrew: רזב״ד), was a Galician Hebrew-language grammarian and poet, considered a forerunner of the Haskalah movement.[1]

Though he lived most of his life in Brody,[1] he traveled with Hebrew books through Germany, Galicia, Poland, and Lithuania, at times earning his livelihood by writing letters for illiterate people. His own publications were another source of income to him. He corresponded with Baruch Jeiteles [de; he], Jacob Landau, son of Yechezkel Landau, and Beer Ginzburg, the Galician poet and friend of Nachman Krochmal. He suffered very much in his travels through foreign countries, and in Berlin he sustained an injury which cost him the sight of his right eye.

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