Baruch Lindau

Baruch ben Jehuda Löb Lindau (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ‬ בֶּן יְהוּדָה לֵייבּ לינדא; 1759, Hanover, Holy Roman Empire — 5 December 1849, Berlin, Prussia) was a Jewish-German mathematician, science writer, and translator.

Lindau became a member of the circle of the maskilim in Berlin, publishing a series of articles on science and scientific instruments in ha-Me'assef. He was a counselor of the maskilic association Chevrat shocharai Ha'tov ve'hatushiya and contributed translations of several haftarot to German for Mendelssohn's Bi'ur project.^[1]^: 287

In 1789, he published his most successful work: Reshit Limmudim^[he], a Hebrew scientific textbook containing sections on astronomy, physics, biology, and geography. The second part of Reshit Limmudim was published in 1810, devoted to physics, chemistry, and mechanics.^[1]^: 286 The work remained a popular scientific encyclopedia among European Jews for nearly a century.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Kogman, Tal (2009). "Baruch Lindau's Rešit Limmudim (1788) and Its German Source: A Case Study of the Interaction between the Haskalah and German Philanthropismus". Aleph. 9 (2): 276–305. doi:10.2979/ALE.2009.9.2.276. JSTOR 40385978. S2CID 144256650.
^ Kogman, Tal (2013). המשכילים במדעים: חינוך יהודי למדעים במרחב דובר הגרמנית בעת החדשה (in Hebrew). Magnes Press. pp. 54–56. ISBN 978-965-493-723-8.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Mannheimer, S. (1901–1906). "Lindau, Baruch ben Jehuda Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.