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.
Akiva Eger's chief works were legal notes and responsa on the Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch.
