Raphael Levi Hannover
German astronomer and mathematician · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1685 to 1779 · aged 94
Raphael Levi Hannover was a German Jewish mathematician and astronomer. The son of Jacob Joseph, Hannover was born at Weikersheim, Franconia in 1685. He was educated at the Jewish school of Hanover and at the yeshivah of Frankfurt am Main, and became bookkeeper in the firm of Simon Wolf Oppenheimer in Hanover.
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Here he attracted the attention of Leibniz, and for a number of years was one of his most distinguished pupils and lived by him for three years, and afterward teacher of mathematics, astronomy, and natural philosophy. He also corresponded with Moses Mendelssohn.