Rodrigo de Castro
Rodrigo de Castro · Science & Medicine
Hamburg physician; pioneer of medical ethics and gynecology in early modern Europe
c. 1546, Lisbon, Portugal — 1627, Hamburg
Portugal · Hamburg
Rodrigo de Castro is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Hamburg physician; pioneer of medical ethics and gynecology in early modern Europe
Rodrigo de Castro was a Portuguese-born physician active in Hamburg whose De universa mulierum medicina (1603) was the first comprehensive gynecology treatise by a Portuguese author, earning him a reputation as a founder of the field, and whose Medicus-Politicus advanced early modern medical ethics. Born into a converso family of Jewish origin, he fled the Inquisition around 1590 and openly returned to Judaism in Hamburg under the name David Namias.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
Hamburg physician; pioneer of medical ethics and gynecology in early modern Europe
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
