Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski | |
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Native name | חַיִּים זֶעלִיג בֶּן יַעֲקֹב סלאָנימסקי |
Born | Bialystok, Russian Empire (present-day Poland) | March 31, 1810
Died | May 15, 1904 Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland | (aged 94)
Resting place | Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery |
Notable works | Mosedei Ḥokmah, Sefer Kukba di-Shebit, Toledot ha-Shamayim |
Notable awards | Demidov Prize (1844) |
Spouse | Reiza Rivhas Neches
(m. 1828; div. 1836)Sara Gitel Stern
(m. 1842; died 1897) |
Relatives | Antoni Słonimski (grandson), Mikhail Slonimsky (grandson),[1] Nicolas Slonimsky (grandson)[2] |
Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski (Yiddish: חַיִּים זֶעלִיג בֶּן יַעֲקֹב סלאָנימסקי) (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS (חז״ס), was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi. He was among the first to write books on science for a broad Jewish audience, and was the founder of Ha-Tsfira, the first Hebrew-language newspaper with an emphasis on the sciences.[3][4]