Königsbergקעניגסבערג
East Prussia
Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia), then the capital of East Prussia, had a Jewish community of note and was an important center of Hebrew printing in the modern era. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, spent his final years working to strengthen Orthodox Jewish life in Germany and Prussia and died in Königsberg in 1883.
4 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Christian Goldbach
Christian Goldbach (1690–1764)
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Bessel (1784–1846)
Ksav VeHakabbalah
Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg (1785–1865)
death 1831–1865
Yisrael Salanter
Yisrael ben Ze'ev Wolf Lipkin Salanter (founder of Mussar) (1809–1883)
death 1860–1883
Avraham Eisenstadt
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstadt (1812–1868)
death 1868
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887)
Rudolf Lipschitz
Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903)
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951)
Immanuel Jakobovits
Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999)
born 1921