Herschell Filipowski was born in the town of Virbalen, Russian Empire in 1816.
10 Facts About Herschell Filipowski
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Herschell Filipowski showed great aptitude for the study of mathematics and languages at an early age, and was fortunate in finding a Polish schoolmaster who secretly aided him in acquiring the rudiments of a modern education.
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Besides his native Yiddish, Filipowski became conversant in Polish, Russian, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, and at age 15 he published An Almanac for One Hundred Years in both Polish and Russian.
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Herschell Filipowski's first published work was Mo'ed Mo'adim on the Jewish, Karaite, Christian, and Muslim calendars, with tables from the Creation to the year AM 6000.
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Herschell Filipowski afterwards was employed as an actuary for the Colonial and Standard Life offices in Edinburgh, a position he kept for about eight years.
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Herschell Filipowski later worked as an actuary for the Mercantile, Professional, and General Life and Guarantee Insurance Company, and as an assistant computer at the Royal and Briton companies.
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Herschell Filipowski returned to London in 1860, where he designed a multiplying machine which made use of Slonimski's theorem.
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One of Herschell Filipowski's calculating devices survives at the Science Museum, London.
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In 1851 Herschell Filipowski founded a Jewish antiquarian society, Hevrat Me'orerei Yeshenim, in connection with which he published many important and valuable works in Hebrew.
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Herschell Filipowski edited and published for the society translations of Solomon ibn Gabirol's Mivhar ha-Peninim, Abraham bar Hiyya's Sefer ha-'Ibbur, Azariah dei Rossi's Matzref la-Kesef, Menahem ben Saruk's Mahberet, Dunash ben Labrat's Teshuvot, and Abraham Zacuto's Sefer Yuhasin ha-Shalem, with notes by Jacob Emden.