Wolf Heidenheim

Benjamin Wolf ben Samson Heidenheim (Hebrew: בנימין זאב בן שמשון היידנהיים; 1757 – February 23, 1832) was a German exegete and grammarian.

Seven years later Heidenheim began his critical edition of the Pentateuch, which he titled Sefer Torat Elohim.

He next entered into partnership with Baruch Baschwitz, an energetic business man; through the assistance of Breidenbach they obtained from the Count of Solms-Rödelheim, under favorable conditions, a license to establish a printing-press at Rödelheim, where they relocated in 1799.

Heidenheim immediately began an edition of the Maḥzor, with a Hebrew commentary by himself and a German translation by himself and Breidenbach (1800).

In order to give a correct text, Heidenheim had secured the most ancient manuscripts, among them being one of the year 1258, as well as the earliest Italian and German editions.

He also added valuable notes to various works which issued from his press, among them being the Mebo ha-Mishnah of Maimonides, and Solomon Papenheim's Yeri'ot Shelomoh.

Prayers for Yom Kippur with German translation by W. Heidenheim, 1877. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland .