LICHTENFELD, GABRIEL JUDAH
- LICHTENFELD, GABRIEL JUDAH
- LICHTENFELD, GABRIEL JUDAH (1811–1887), Hebrew author and
mathematician. Born in Lublin, he lived most of his life in Opatow,
Poland. Having taught himself sciences and European languages, he wrote
for Ha-Shaḥar, Ha-Ẓefirah, Izraelita, and Polish newspapers,
mostly on mathematical topics. In 1865 he published Yedi'ot
ha-Shi'urim ("Science of Measurement"), by which a reader might
"learn the elements of surveying, without the aid of a teacher." In
1874–75 he published polemic tracts against Ḥ.S. Slonimski\>\> ,
questioning the latter's competence in scientific matters. With I.L.
Peretz\>\> , whose first wife was Lichtenfeld's daughter, he co-edited
Sippurim be-Shir ve-Shirim Shonim me'et Shenei Ba'alei Asufot
("Stories in Verse and Sundry Poems From Two Anthologists," Warsaw,
1877), incorporating a long original poem by the editors called
Ḥayyei Meshorer Ivri ("Life of a Hebrew Poet").
Lichtenfeld's book on mathematics, Bo'u Ḥeshbon, was
published posthumously (1895). Some of the terminology which he coined
has been generally accepted.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Rejzen, Leksikon, 2 (1927), 980; Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 266–7.
(Yehuda Slutsky)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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