Background
Eger was born in Eisenstadt on the 8th of November, 1761.
Eger was born in Eisenstadt on the 8th of November, 1761.
Akiva Eger was a child prodigy and was educated first at the Mattersdorf yeshiva and later by his uncle, Rabbi Wolf Eger, (1756-1795) (b 5516, d 6 Tishrei 5556), at the Breslau (Wrocław) yeshiva, who later became rabbi of Tziltz and Leipnik.
Akiva Eger was for the last twenty-five years of his life rabbi of Posen. He was a rigorous casuist of the old school, and his chief works were legal notes on the Talmud and the code of Qaro.