Salomo Sachs

Salomo Sachs (Hebrew: זקס שְׁלֹמֹה, romanized: Šəlomoh Sachs; born on 22 December 1772 in Berlin; died on 14 May 1855) was a Jewish Prussian architect, astronomer, Prussian building official, mathematician, drawing teacher for architecture, teacher for machine drawings, building economist, writer, author of non-fiction and textbooks and universal scholar. He attained the rank of a royal building inspector and with his cousin Major Meno Burg they were the only men in the Prussian civil service who had not renounced their Jewish faith.

Sachs was born in Berlin on 22 December 1772, the son of Lottery collector and Protected Jew Joel Jacob Sachs (born 30 July 1738 in Berlin; died 18 April 1820 in Berlin) and his second wife Esther Sachs (c. 1746 – 1813). His father was head of the association Bedek Habajith of the Jewish community of Berlin ("The Damage to the House"; "Maintenance of the Building", here "Building Maintenance") (Hebrew: תחזוקת הבניין)