He was born in
Halle and died in
Fürth. He was professor at the at
Breslau from 1792 to 1807. After 1807, he became private tutor in
Berlin of the sons of the financier Judah Herz Beer, and of Jakob Beer (later known as
Giacomo Meyerbeer) in particular. Letters between Jakob Beer and Aron Wolfssohn have been published among the Meyerbeer correspondence. Besides translating much of the
Tanakh into
German, he published a
Hebrew-German
primer (
Abtalion), commentaries, essays and the play
Leichtsinn und Frömmelei (written in 1796). ==Bibliography==