Dr. Abraham Cohn was born in Burgpreppach on June 5, 1906 as the oldest son of Burgpreppach’s Rabbi Dr. Nathan Cohn and his wife Hanna, née Auerbach. Between 1916 and 1918, he attended Kissingen Realschule and during that time lived with Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger in Promenadestrasse. In 1918, when his father was transferred to Marburg, he went to the Realgymnasium Marburg. Then he studied in Marburg and at the Rabbinical School in Berlin and moved back to Marburg in 1931 to get his doctorate there. His thesis that was supervised by Prof. Wilhelm Mommsen, one of the most renounced historians of his time, had the title “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Hessen-Kassel im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert” (Contributions to the History of the Jews in Hesse-Kassel in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries). It can be looked up in the University Library of Marburg.

Between 1933 and 1935, Abraham Cohn was a teacher at the newly opened Jewish School in Halberstadt. In May 1935, he married Henriette Tirza Henny, née Bacharach, whose father was a grain trader and member of the chairmen of the Jewish community in Marburg.

In the same year he emigrated to Palestine and worked there as a teacher and in the welfare system. He was one of the leading pedagogues of the “Javne” in Haifa and died in Petah Tikva on October 19, 1964 at the age of 58. His parents and brother could emigrate to Palestine.