Samuel Cahen

Samuel Cahen (4 August 1796, Metz, France – 8 January 1862, Paris) was a French Hebraist and journalist.

He pursued a course of rabbinical studies while simultaneously devoting much attention to modern languages and literatures.

After completing his education Cahen was engaged as a private tutor in Germany.

In 1822 he went to Paris, where he assumed the directorship of the Jewish Consistorial School, a position which he held for a number of years.

Cahen's main work was the translation of the Jewish Bible into French, with the Hebrew on opposite pages, and critical notes and dissertations by himself and others.