Yaakov Koppel Altenkunshtadt

He was born in 1765 within the city of Altenkunstadt, at the time located within the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg in the Holy Roman Empire. Yaakov was the son of the scholar Tzvi Hirsh Altenkunshtadt. In 1781 he went to study under Yechezkel Landau of Prague, author of Noda biYehudah. During his time in Fiurda, his parents died. Altenkunshtadt was rabbi of Verbau for 45 years. His yeshiva usually held around 150 students at a time. He died on 19 December 1837. == References ==

• C. (Yaakov Koppel) Duschinsky, Toldos Yaakov, The life and times of the Gaon Rebbi Koppel Charif of blessed and righteous memory (London: Rephoel Mazin and partners, 1918) in Hebrew. Copyright 2018 in English. Duschinsky, Yaakov Koppel. Translated by Dovid Honig. Toldos Yaakov, The Life and Times of the Gaon Rav Koppel Charif (Jerusalem: Torah Im Derech Eretz Society, 2018). • Rav Shlomo Zalman Sonnenfeld, Guardian of Jerusalem (Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, 1983).