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1761 - 1837 (13 Tishrei 5598) AKIVA EGER (EIGER) (Posen, Germany)
Renowned halachic and talmudic scholar, Eger was one of the leading talmudists in the first half of the nineteenth century and a strong opponent of the Reform movement. His devotion to the sick, at risk to his own life during a cholera epidemic, earned him the recognition of Frederick William III of Prussia.
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