Aron Lobl Segal Spitz

Aaron Spitz was born in Mikulov in 1776 and is listed in the birth index as being the son of Lobl (Aryeh Leib?) and Maria (Miryam) See index at http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/obj...

He was appointed as rabbi on the Bais Din of Nikolsburg/Mikulov and then moved to Prostejov/Prossnitz in 1800, then became rabbi in Trencin about 1810 and then from 1812 until his death was rabbi in Holic. There is a eulogy for him printed in the book Drashos Chasam Sofer (Vol 3) which reports that he died suddenly and still delivered a Talmud class for his students on the day he died.

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See: Segal, Yehezkel, Torat Yehezkel, Abraham Singer (ed.), Pecs, 1899: His son Mordechai Spitz married Reizel, the eldest daughter of Ezekiel Segal Horowitz (Torat Yehezkel, Introduction, p.3, n. 12). "Aharon Segal Spitz was in his early days the head of the rabbinical court in Prossnitz (Moravia) from c. 1800 until c. 1811, and from there he went to serve in the town of Trencin. Later on, he was accepted as the chief of the local rabbinate in Holic, where he d. on the day of Hoshana Raba in the year of 1816" (ibid, p. 3). " ... his [R. Aharon Spitz'] daughter, Leah, was the wife of the author of Ohel Avraham" (Segal, Yhehzkel, Torat Yehezkel, Abraham Singer (ed.), Introduction, p. 3, n. 13)

רבי אהרן הלוי שפיץ, שהיה אב"ד בעיר פרוסטיץ שבמורביה ההונגרית. הרב שפיץ נפטר בדמי ימיו, בהיותו בן 48