Aaron Tänzer was an Austria

Austria

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n rabbi

Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

. He was born in Pressburg, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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He studied at the Pressburg Rabbinerschule, and Oriental philology and history at the University of Berlin (PhD 1895). In 1896 he was called to Hohenems

Hohenems

Hohenems is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian part of the Rhine valley. With a population of 15,200 it is the fifth largest municipality in Vorarlberg...

 as chief rabbi

Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities...

 of Tyrol

County of Tyrol

The County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...

 and Vorarlberg

Vorarlberg

Vorarlberg is the westernmost federal-state of Austria. Although it is the second smallest in terms of area and population , it borders three countries: Germany , Switzerland and Liechtenstein...

; and since 1904 he was rabbi of Meran (Tyrol

County of Tyrol

The County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...

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Works

He wrote:

• Die Religionsphilosophie Josef Albo's, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1896
• Der Israelitische Friedhof in Hohenems, Vienna, 1901
• Judenthum und Entwickelungslehre, Berlin, 1903
• Geschichte der Juden in Tirol und Vorarlberg, vol. i, ib. 1903-4.

Later life and death

In World War I, he looked after German and Austrian Jewish soldiers and took care of Jewish prisoners of war in POW camps (like Doeberitz

Dallgow-Döberitz

Dallgow-Döberitz is a municipality in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.-Geography:It consists of the villages Dallgow-Döberitz, Rohrbeck and Seeburg. To the east it shares border with the Spandau borough of Berlin. Neighbouring Brandenburg municipalities are Falkensee in the north...

and Sedan).

He died in 1937.