Solomon Gandz


Solomon Gandz was a historian of science.
Gandz published on the history of mathematics and astronomy in medieval Jewish and Islamic civilizations.
From 1915 to 1919 Dr. Gandz was professor of Jewish theology and Jewish history in the gymnasium and realschule in Vienna.
From 1923 to 1234 he was librarian and professor of Arabic and Medieval Hebrew at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York.
From 1942 until his death in March 1954 he was research professor of the history of Semitic Civilization at the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
Selections from his collected works were published by KTAV Publishing House NY in 1970. "Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics" by Solomon Gandz. Selected with an introduction by Professor Shlomo Sternberg of Harvard.
Among his major works is his annotated translation of Maimonides' Code "Sanctification of the New Moon" included in the Yale Judaica Series as well as his edition of Mishnat ha-Middot.

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