Avigdor Glogauer

His father Simḥah was a pious Talmud teacher, and his mother Bräunche was a member of the prominent Teomim rabbinical family.

[3] Early in 1773, while traveling through Saxony, he was arrested on a false charge of theft,[3] and lingered in the prison of Pirna for ten months.

[4][1] The first work Avigdor published was an elementary Hebrew grammar entitled Davar tov ('A Good Thing'; Prague, 1783), with a haskama by Rabbi Yechezkel Landau.

[3] The book included a table of conjugations, as well as an excerpt of Moses ibn Ḥabib's linguistic treatise Marpe lashon ('Healing of Speech').

[5] This supplement forms the appendix to his didactic poem, Ḥotem tokhnit ('The Perfect Seal'), which aims at proving that the teachings of the Bible surpass all the systems of philosophy ever invented, from Socrates to Immanuel Kant.