EICHENBAUM, JACOB

(1796-1861)

   Polish Haskalah poet, educator and mathematician. He was born in Krystianopol, Galicia. He was married at 11, but divorced when his father-in-law suspected him of secular leanings. He married again in 1815, lived in Zamosc, and later settled in Odessa, where he estab-lished a Jewish school. In 1844 he was appointed director of the Kishinev Jewish school, and in 1850 inspector of the Zhitomir Rabbinical Seminary. A collection of poems by him was one of the first books of poetry published in the Haskalah period.