Meir of Rothenburg (c. 1215 – 2 May 1293)[1] was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud.

Along with many others, Meir left Germany with family and followers, but was captured in the mountains of Lombardy, having been recognized by a baptized Jew named Kneppe, and imprisoned in a fortress near Ensisheim in Alsace.

Fourteen years after his death, a ransom was paid for his body by Alexander ben Salomon Wimpfen, who was subsequently laid to rest beside him in the Jewish cemetery of Worms.

[3] According to Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, Rabbi Meir was an expert in interpreting dreams.

Rabbi Meir wrote no single major work, but many notes, commentaries, expositions, and poems—as well as 1,500 responsa.