Abraham Jacob Stern (Yiddish: אברהם יעקב שטערן; 1762 or 1769 – 3 February 1842) was a Polish Jewish maskil, inventor, educator, and poet.

[2] In 1816, and again in 1818, he was presented to Tsar Alexander I, who granted him an annual pension of 350 rubles from the state treasury, promising, in case of his death, to pay half of this sum to his widow.

Encouraged by his friends, Stern developed a topographical wagon for the measurement of level surfaces, an invention of great value to both civil and military engineers.

[5] Stern always remained an Orthodox Jew; he wore a kippah in the presence of his eminent friends, and when staying in the castle of Adam Czartoryski, a Jewish cook prepared his meals.

He wrote an ode in honor of the coronation of Nicholas I, which appeared in Hebrew under the title "Rinnah u-tefillah" ("Song and Prayer," 1925) and was translated into Polish by J. Gluegenberg (Warsaw, 1829).