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Dávid Leimdörfer
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbi born at hlinik”. Today it says “rabbi born in hliník nad vahom”.
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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.
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rabbi born at hlinik
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rabbi born in hliník nad vahom
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