רבי חיים דוד ברנהרד מפּיעטרקוב
Rabbi Chaim Dovid Bernhard of Piotrków
The doctor who became a chassidishe rebbe
Yahrzeit: כ׳ שבט · 5618 / 1858
A physician who was brought back to Yiddishkeit by Reb Dovid Biderman of Lelov, was taken by him to the Chozeh of Lublin and later became a talmid of the Radoshitzer, and who went on to lead as a rebbe in Piotrków; Polish sources write him Chaim Dawid Bernard or Bernhardt.
