Synagogue Judaica

Johannes Buxtorf

1661

Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.
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Johannes Buxtorf

1599–1664

Johannes Buxtorf the Elder was a prominent Christian Hebraist. Born in Westphalia in Germany, the son of a minister, he studied at Marburg and then at the Herborn Academy, a Calvinist institution of higher learning. He was professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at the university in Basel and was known by the title Master of the Rabbis. He is best known for his book, Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry.

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