SHLOYME-ZALMEN
ZEGNER (b. 1853)
He was born in Dukla (Duklya),
Galicia. He was a well-known preacher,
Talmud scholar, and mathematician. He
was the author of religious texts (in Hebrew): Tel talpiyot (Mount of trophies) (Lemberg, 1892); Misped tamrurim (Bitter lamentation), a
sermon on the death of the Belz Rebbe, Yehoshua Rokeaḥ (Kolomaye, 1894), 22 pp.; Or haḥakhama (The light of wisdom) (Muncacz, 1896); Ḥakhama
vebina (Wisdom and knowledge); Bina
leatid (Knowledge for the future); and other works equipped with partial
explanations in Yiddish. He also
published: Zegners praktisher
rekhenmayster (Zegner’s practical calculating expert), book 1, “an easy
method for studying arithmetical
calculation” (Premishle, 1901),
96 pp.; Zegners praktisher
rekhenmayster, book 2, “including mathematical calculations for
self-education, geometry, stereometry (measurement of bodies), logarithms,
physics, calculating the lunar eclipse, algebra, and the like, as well as
several ways to calculate without assistance” (Premishle, 1902), 96 pp., with a
foreword in which he explains that the goal of his works is “to understand the
Rambam [Moses Maimonides], may his memory be for a blessing, in his judgments
on Sukkah and Eruvin or in his More
nevukhim (Guide of the perplexed), because not everyone has learned
trigonometry.” Other details about his
life remain unknown.
Sources:
Gershon Bader, Medina veḥakhameha (The state and its sages) (New York, 1934), p. 149; Bet eked sefarim.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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