Yoseph Shlomo Delmedigo (Yashar of Candia)

His Life, Works and Times

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23809042
AutoresI Barzilay (autor de correspondencia)
Año1974
Fecha de publicación1974-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaYoseph Shlomo Delmedigo (Yashar of Candia) (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004509023
OpenAlexW4243168194
Open LibraryOL51664493M
ISBN9789004509023
IdiomaCA
Citas recibidas7

a Cretan Jew, was compelled to wander for much of his life in Egypt, Poland, and Germany, at odds with both non-Jews and the increasingly mystical Jewish communities he visited.This biography of a universal scholar sets him in the context of early seventeenth-century scientific rationalism and rightly emphasizes the added difficulties of his Jewish predicament.Of his medical training at Padua, little is said, although recent work on Harvey, his contemporary there, would have altered the largely negative picture of university medicine there, but the short section on his practice in Poland, Holland, and Germany is illuminating on the life of a doctor in the Jewish ghettos.At Amsterdam, the large number of Jewish doctors forced him to give up medicine for a time, perhaps not unwillingly, and the harsh contract he signed in 1631 to be the Jewish communal physician at Frankfurt-am-Main does not imply much confidence in his abilities.His medical writings, including a plagiarism of Galen's commentary on the Aphorisms, are of minor importance compared with his philosophical and scientific studies; yet, as this biography shows, it was the money he made from his practice that enabled him to travel, to buy his books, and at times just to exist.

Geology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies