“Salanter” and disciples move from Vilna, Lithuania to Kovno, Lithuania where he founds a yeshiva, over which he presided until 1856.
Rav Yisroel Lipkin (of) Salanter was founder of the Mussar movement (i.e. Ethics to be given the very highest priority) in Orthodox Judaism.
(b. 1809, Zhagory, Lithuania; d. 1883 Konigsberg, German Empire)