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. He lived in southern France (Languedoc or Provence), possibly at Arles. He died, possibly at Perpignan, toward the end of the thirteenth century.