Dovid Kenigsberg (1891-1942?) was born in Busk, Galicia, and studied on Brody (Brod) and Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). He worked as a bookkeeper in Lwów (Lvov / Lviv / Lemberg). His first piece was printed in the collection Yungt in 1909, and he published his first poetry collection Lider, an 1912.
He served in the Austrian army in the First World War, after which he published his most substantial collection of poems, Hundert Sonetn (One Hundred Sonnets) in 1921.
Kenigsberg was in Lwów at the oubreak of the Second World War, and at that time was elected to the head of the Jewish division of the local author’s union. There are conflicting accounts of his death in 1942 – one account claims that he was murdered by the Soviets, and another that he died at the Yanove extermination camp aftger the liquidation of the Lwów ghetto.
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