Ze'ev Wolf Goldman, later known as Ze'ev Ben-Haim (Hebrew: זאב בן-חיים) (28 December 1907 – 6 August 2013),[1] was a leading Israeli linguist and a former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
He presented his work for his doctorate in 1932 on the subject of personal names in Nabataean epigraphy.
In 1933, he received Semikhah (traditional rabbinical ordination) from the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau as well as the Ph.D."[2] At the end of 1933 he immigrated to Palestine.
The following year he was appointed secretary to the Hebrew Language Committee (forerunner of the Academy of the Hebrew Language), working closely with committee head Hayim Nahman Bialik in the last months before that poet's sudden death.
In 1973, following the death of Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Ben-Haim was appointed as the second president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, holding that post until 1981.