Gerson ben Solomon Catalan

Gerson ben Solomon Catalan, also known as Gerson ben Solomon of Arles, was a French Jewish author of the thirteenth century. He compiled an encyclopedia entitled Sha'ar ha-Shamayim (Door of Heaven) in Hebrew, which was widely read later in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.^[1] He lived in southern France (Languedoc or Provence), possibly at Arles.^[1] He died, possibly at Perpignan, toward the end of the thirteenth century.