Jacob ben Jehiel Loans explained

Jacob ben Jehiel Loans (Yacov of Linz, Jakob von Linz, Yaakov ben Yechiel Loans) (died 1506) was an Italian-Jewish rabbi, Court Jew and personal physician to Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1440-93), and who was the first Hebrew teacher to Johann Reuchlin.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} Loans had served for at least 7 years before he met Reuchlin, and was his teacher for nearly a year.^{[6] [7]} They met in 1492. Reuchlin wrote a letter to Loans in Hebrew in 1500 that he later published, which triggered attacks from Johann Pfefferkorn, an anti-Judaic Jewish-to-Christian convert. Loans knew Reuchlin was looking to acquire a Hebrew Bible codex, and Loans arranged for the Emperor to give one to Reuchlin.^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} He was raised to the nobility in 1465.^[12] He is also said to have been the physician to Frederick's son and successor, Maximilian I.^[13]

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin, pp. 105 et seq.;
• Grätz, Gesch. ix. 47, 83, 147;
• Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 273;
• Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 208;
• Winter and Wünsche, Die Jüdische Litteratur, ii. 225.

Notes and References

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2. Web site: LOANS, JACOB BEN JEHIEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com . 2024-09-06 . www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
3. Zimmer . Eric . 1980 . Jewish and Christian Hebraist Collaboration in Sixteenth Century Germany . The Jewish Quarterly Review . 71 . 2 . 69–88 . 10.2307/1454627 . 1454627 . 0021-6682.
4. Hirsch . S. A. . 1899 . Early English Hebraists. Roger Bacon and His Predecessors . The Jewish Quarterly Review . 12 . 1 . 34–88 . 10.2307/1450570 . 1450570 . 0021-6682.
5. Kaplan . Debra . 2013 . Review of Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books . Jewish History . 27 . 1 . 101–105 . 10.1007/s10835-012-9175-1 . 24709734 . 0334-701X.
6. Book: Price, David . Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books . 2011-01-13 . Oxford University Press, USA . 978-0-19-539421-4 . en.
7. Bonfil . Robert . 2012 . Review of Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books . Renaissance Studies . 26 . 5 . 765–768 . 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2012.00800.x . 24420140 . 0269-1213.
8. Ron . Nathan . 2023-10-03 . Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522): A Unique Philosemitic Public Intellectual . The European Legacy . en . 28 . 7 . 725–741 . 10.1080/10848770.2023.2220239 . 1084-8770. free .
9. Book: Ron, Nathan . Erasmus: Intellectual of the 16th Century . 2021-07-27 . Springer Nature . 978-3-030-79860-4 . en.
10. Book: Mandelbrote . Scott . Jewish Books and their Readers: Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe . Weinberg . Joanna . 2016-05-23 . BRILL . 978-90-04-31815-1 . en.
11. Book: Posset, Franz . Respect for the Jews: Collected Works, Volume 4 . 2019-09-30 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-5326-7090-9 . en.
12. Book: Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe . 2018 . Wayne State University Press . 10.1353/book.61491 . 978-0-8143-4485-9.
13. Web site: 2016-03-15 . Jakob ben Jechiel Loans . 2024-11-02 . www.stifterhaus.at . en-US.