Rabbi Shlomo Eiger רבי שלמה איגר
rabbi of Poznan after his father, Rabbi Akiva Eiger
He was born in 1786 at Lissa, where his father was rabbi, and studied under his father. For a long time he took no rabbinical post: from 1801 he lived in Warsaw as a merchant and scholar, answering questions and corresponding with his father—their correspondence entered the responsa of Rabbi Akiva Eiger.
In 1831 he became rabbi of Kalisz, and in 1837, a few months after his father's death, the community of Poznan called him to his father's seat, which he held for fifteen years—in the years when the Prussian state and the Reform pressed on the old order. His books are the Gilyon Maharsha, marginal notes on the Talmud printed beside his father's, and the Iglei Tal on the tractates.
He died at Poznan in 1852. His sons, Rabbi Yehuda Leib and Rabbi Avraham, published the legacy of grandfather and father.
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Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The Gilyon Maharsha — the marginal notes on the Talmud
- The responsa of Rabbi Akiva Eiger — the correspondence of father and son
Scholarship
- The standard reference works and encyclopedias — Lissa 1786, Warsaw from 1801, Kalisz 1831, Poznan from 1837, 1852
Basis: documents and evidence.