Jacob ben Jechiel Loans

Jacob ben Jechiel Loans († 1506 in Linz ) was Friedrich III's personal physician .

He became known as the personal physician of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , the Habsburg Friedrich III. (1415–1493), who elevated the Jewish doctor to knighthood for his long service, and also as the Hebrew teacher of Johannes Reuchlin , who visited the imperial court with his sovereign, Duke Eberhard von Württemberg .

Reuchlin kept his first Hebrew teacher in good memory as a teacher and as a person throughout his life. In his works he mentions Loans as humanissimus praeceptor meus homo excellens and immortalized him in the figure of the Jewish scholar Simon .

Jacob Loans also worked as a doctor for Friedrich's successor Maximilian I.

Jacob Loans was a relative of Josel von Rosheim .

literature

• Heinrich Graetz : History of the Jews , Vol. IX (1866).
• Ludwig Geiger : Johann Reuchlin, his life and works , Berlin 1871.
• Richard Gottheil, Max Schloessinger:  LOANS, JACOB BEN JEHIEL. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
• Ignaz Münz: The Jewish Doctors in the Middle Ages , Frankfurt am Main 1922.
• Salomon Wininger : Grosse Jüdische National-Biographie , 1925 ff. (Vol. IV).
• Jewish Lexicon , Berlin 1927 (Vol. III).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2016 Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria / StifterHaus - Literature and Language in Upper Austria., Www.stifter-haus.at [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg:  Josel (Joseph) von Rosheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 609 f. ( Digitized version ).