Elijah Levita
Elijah Levita · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Renaissance Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer.
1469, Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany — 1549, Venice, Italy
Germany · Italy
Elijah Levita is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Renaissance Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer.
Levita was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, lexicographer and poet whose works on Hebrew and Aramaic — including his masoretic studies and a Yiddish romance, the 'Bovo-Bukh' — profoundly influenced Christian Hebraists as well as Jewish scholarship. He was Jewish, born in Germany, and worked chiefly in Italy.
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Renaissance Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
