David ben Nathan Gruenhut

David ben Nathan Gruenhut was a German printer, talmudist and kabbalist. He printed Ḥayyim Vital’s Sefer ha-Gilgulim (“On the Transmigration of Souls”) in 1682, but was prevented from distributing it by the rabbinate of Frankfurt, which opposed kabbalistic works because of the danger of Shabbateanism. However he published it again in 1684, this time through a Christian printer in Frankfurt. For few years he served as a rabbi in Idstein, Aue, and perhaps in Heimerdingen. After that he returned to Frankfurt and became one of the scholars in the bet ha-midrash founded by David Oppenheim. He also continued with his publishing activities.