Abraham Cohen Herrera
Abraham Cohen de Herrera , also Abraham Irira , Christian baptismal name Alonso Nunez de Herrera (* around 1570 ; † 1635 or 1639 in Amsterdam ), was a religious philosopher and Kabbalist .
Herrera's place of birth is unknown. According to some sources, he is said to have been born in a respected Marran family in Lisbon. Herrea and his family later stayed in Florence . From there he went to Morocco and was taken prisoner by the English in the service of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur . According to his information, he lived in Ragusa in the 1590s , where he studied the Lurian Kabbalah with Israel Sarug . After this time he moved to Amsterdam and returned to normative Judaism .
Here he wrote several works in Spanish , which were later translated into Hebrew . His book Puerta del cielo ( Gate of Heaven ), a Neoplatonic exposition of the Lurian Kabbalah, which was read by More , Locke , Newton , Leibniz , Hegel , Schelling and many others in the Latin translation and by Spinoza in the Hebrew translation, caused a particular stir .
After his death he was buried as a member of the Sephardic congregation in Amsterdam in the Beth Haim cemetery in Ouderkerk, which is close to the city .
Works (selection)
- Epitome y compendio de la logica .
- Libro de Diffinitiones .
- Casa de la divinidad .
- Puerta del cielo (Hebrew Sha'ar ha-shamajim , translated by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca in 1655 ).
- German edition
- The book of Sha'ar ha-shamayim or Gate of Heaven. In which the Kabbalistic teachings are presented philosophically and compared with the Platonic philosophy . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-06387-1 .
Literature (selection)
- Jacob Gordin: HERRERA, ABRAHAM KOHEN DE. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865937-4 , pp. 40-41 (English).
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. III, Druckerei Orient, Czernowitz 1928, p. 60.
- Emanuel Bin Gorion et al. (Ed.): Philo-Lexikon. Handbook of Jewish Knowledge . 3rd edition, Berlin 1936, Col. 289.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gordin, EJ2 of 2007.
- ↑ Brill Academic Publishers (ed.): Journal for Religious and Intellectual History . Verlag E. J. Brill , Leiden 1988, ISSN 1570-0739 , 40th volume, p. 88.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrera, Abraham Cohen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nunez de Herrera, Alonso (pseudonym); Irira, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Religious philosopher and Kabbalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1570 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1635 or 1639 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |