Raphael Kirchheim was a German Jewish scholar.
Kirchheim was of a pugnacious disposition and took a very active part in the general attack on the Amsterdam administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah in 1843-44, which was especially directed against Hirsch Lehren

Hirsch Lehren

Hirsch Lehren was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the Ḥaluḳḳah in the first half of the nineteenth century...

 of Amsterdam, president of the board of administration. Kirchheim severely criticized Samson Raphael Hirsch's Der Pentateuch in a pamphlet entitled Die Neue Exegetenschule: Eine Kritische Dornenlese (Breslau, 1867).

Kirchheim left a valuable collection, of Hebraica and Judaica, to the religious school of the M.