Elias Höchheimer
Elias ben Ḥayyim Cohen Höchheimer (or Hechim) was an eighteenth century Jewish astronomer and mathematician.
Born in Hochheim, Höchheimer lived a long time in Hildburghausen and died in Amsterdam. He was the author of Shebile di-Reḳi'a (Prague, 1784), on trigonometry and astronomy, Sefer Yalde ha-Zeman (Prague, 1786), a commentary on Jedaiah Bedersi's Beḥinat ha-'Olam, and two German-language textbooks on arithmetic.[1]
References
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Deutsch, Gotthard; Kayserling, Meyer; Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1901–1906). "Höchheimer (Höċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
- Allg. Zeit. des Jud. xliv. 652.
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 367, 402.
- Jac. Zwarts, Het verblijf van Prins Willem V ten huize van den joodschen tabaksplanter Benjamin Cohen (Utrecht 1921), p. 16.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gotthard Deutsch, Meyer Kayserling, Cyrus Adler, and Henrietta Szold (1901–1906). "Höchheimer (Höċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
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