He then attended the Pädagogium [de] of the local Latin school, albeit segregated on the designated "Judenbank" ('Jew's bench').
From Mannheim, Auerbach went to Carlsruhe, where he attended upper classes of the Lyceum and a course for rabbinical candidates set up by Rabbi Elias Willstaedter.
After completing his studies there in 1835, Auerbach became a religious teacher in Wiesbaden, where he became deeply influenced by the reformist Rabbi Abraham Geiger.
[3] After a period teaching in Vienna, Auerbach moved to Frankfurt in 1842, where for almost forty years, he served as a religious teacher in the Jewish community and, from 1848 onwards, at the Gymnasium.
Jacob Auerbach also authored several educational works and the Schul- und Haus-Bibel (1858), which gained widespread circulation in Jewish communities across Germany.