Ephraim Bueno

Dr. Ephraim Bueno (bonus). Oil sketch by Rembrandt 1647

Dr. Ephraim bonus . Etching by Jan Lievens 1656

Ephraim Ezechiel Bueno (also called Bonus and Martin Alvarez ; * 1599 in Castelo Rodrigo , Portugal ; † November 8, 1665 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) was a Sephardic doctor and publisher in Amsterdam.

Life

Ephraim Bueno came from a Marran family and was born in northern Portugal in 1599 . Like his father Joseph Bueno, he studied medicine in France . He obtained his doctorate in Bordeaux in 1642 . Both practiced the medical profession in Amsterdam and held a respected position in the Portuguese-Jewish community.

In addition to his profession as a doctor, Ephraim Bueno worked as a poet, translator and publisher. He was close friends with Menasse ben Israel and financed several of his prints. Together with Jonas Abravanel, he made possible the Sefer peney rabah Bible Concordance, printed in 1628 . They later published a Spanish translation of the Psalms of David ( Psalterio de David en Hebrayco Dicho Thehylim, Transladado con Toda Fidelidad Verbo a Verbo del Hebrayco. Amsterdam 1650). In 1656 he founded the Or Torah Academy of Amsterdam with Abraham Pereira .

Bueno died in November 1665. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ouderkerk .

Bueno was represented by Dutch artists on various occasions. There is a small oil sketch by Rembrandt which he used for an etching (1647). A few years later Jan Lievens also made an etching by the wealthy doctor from Amsterdam.

literature

Kenneth R. Scholberg: BUENO. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 4, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865932-9 , p. 252 (English).

Web links

Commons : Ephraim Bonus - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ephraim Bueno , biography at the Joods Historisch Museum
Gotthard Deutsch , Meyer Kayserling: Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Publications by and about Ephraim Bueno in VD 17 .

Footnotes

^ Jacques Dubarry: Ephraim Bueno, ami de Rembrandt, docteur en médecine de l'université de Bordeaux. In: Revue d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque. Vol. 3, No. 5, April 1950, pp. 17-23 ( [1] ).
↑ Michael Zell: Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian image in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Berkeley 2002, ISBN 978-0-520-22741-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bueno, Ephraim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bonus; Bueno, Ephraim Ezekiel; Alvarez, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sephardic doctor and publisher in Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH	1599
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castelo Rodrigo
DATE OF DEATH	November 8, 1665
Place of death	Amsterdam

[1] Jacques Dubarry: Ephraim Bueno, ami de Rembrandt, docteur en médecine de l'université de Bordeaux. In: Revue d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque. Vol. 3, No. 5, April 1950, pp. 17-23 ( [1] ).

[2] Michael Zell: Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian image in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Berkeley 2002, ISBN 978-0-520-22741-5 .