Tzemach Dovid
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Dovid Gans
Dovid Gans
1541 CE–1613 CE · Acharonim · Lippstadt
Rabbi Dovid Gans (1541-1613) was a scholar of the Renaissance era whose interests spanned Torah learning, chronology, astronomy, and mathematics. Born in Lippstadt in western Germany, he studied rabbinic literature in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main before moving to Kraków, where he learned under Rabbi Moshe Isserles (the Rema). He also took part in the study circle of the Maharal in Prague and pursued mathematics, including Euclid, during a period at Nordheim. Around 1564 he settled in Prague, where he remained until his death. His best-known work, Tzemach David (1592), is an ordered chronicle of Jewish and general history and was among the first history books printed in Hebrew. In Prague he worked in the orbit of the imperial observatory, coming into contact with the astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.
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