Moses Schreiber (1762–1839), known to his own community and Jewish posterity in the Hebrew translation as
Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work
Chatam Sofer,
Chasam Sofer or
Hatam Sofer, (
trans. Seal of the Scribe and acronym for
Chiddushei Torat Moshe Sofer), was one of the leading
Orthodox rabbis of European
Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.