 There is no comprehensive account of his life and career, which must be reconstructed from fragmentary references.According to Stephan Bodecker, Bishop of Brandenburg, who wrote a refutation of Lipmann's "Sefer HaNitzachon," Lipmann lived at Cracow.But Naphtali Hirsch Treves, in the introduction to his "Siddur," calls him "Lipmann Mülhausen of Prague", adding that he lived in the part of the town called "Wyschigrod."