Leon Mendelsburg (Yiddish: אריה ליב מענדעלסבורג, romanized: Aryeh Leib Mendelsburg; 22 May 1819 – 1897)[1] was a Russian Jewish educator and writer.
Leon Mendelsburg was born in 1819 in Włodawa, Russian Poland.
At the age of twelve he went to study Talmud in Tomaszów under Phineas Mendel Heilprin.
From 1850 Mendelsburg was a frequent contributor in German to the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, in which he published articles on the life of the Jews in the Russian Empire.
He published also Dichtung und Warhheit (1862), a volume of sketches of Russo-Jewish life.