Moses Hamon

Moses Hamon (* 1490 in Spain ; † before 1567) was a Jewish doctor and linguist .

Moses Hamon was the son of Joseph Hamon with whom he came to Constantinople . There he became a personal physician to Suleyman I and accompanied the Sultan on his travels and campaigns. He was very much appreciated by the Sultan. Although officially only fourth in the hierarchy, he got almost the same wage as the Hekimbaşı with 75 Asper per day . He was also given the right to build a four-story house in the city. He was often called when there were difficulties in the community and intervened in favor of the Jews with Suleyman. Above all, in 1553 he obtained that all blood accusations should be tried directly before the Sultan. A year earlier he moved the ruler to give Gracia Nasi refuge in the city.

After a controversial treatment of the sultan's gout with an ointment containing opium , Hamon fell out of favor, presumably due to political tensions within the sultan 's palace. He was replaced by the Muslim doctor Seyh Qaysunizade Mahmud and is said to have died shortly afterwards "out of shame".

Hamon was fluent in Turkish , Hebrew and Arabic and published Jewish literature in Constantinople, where he built a yeshiva . 1546 he published the trilingual Pentateuch , the Persian translation of ben Jacob Josef Tawus , the Aramaic of the Targum Onkelos and the Arabic of Saadia Gaon next to each set.

literature

Uriel Heyd: Moses Hamon, chief Jewish physician to sultan Süleymān the Magnificent. In: Oriens. Vol. 16, 1963, pp. 153-170, doi : 10.2307 / 1580261 .
Arslan Terzioǧlu: A hitherto unknown Turkish treatise on dentistry by Moses Hamon from the early 16th century. In: Sudhoff's archive . Vol. 58, No. 3, 1974, 276-282, JSTOR 20776269 .

Web links

Hamon, Moses. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Suleiman I. in the Jewish Virtual Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Elli Kohen: History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim. memories of a past golden age. University Press of America, Lanham MD et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7618-3600-1 , p. 50 ff.
↑ Miri Shefer-Mossensohn: Ottoman Medicine. Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Suny Press, Albany NY 2009, ISBN 978-1-438-42529-0 , p. 41 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hamon, Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	1490
PLACE OF BIRTH	Spain
DATE OF DEATH	before 1567

[Kohen-1] A ^b Elli Kohen: History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim. memories of a past golden age. University Press of America, Lanham MD et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7618-3600-1 , p. 50 ff.

[2] Miri Shefer-Mossensohn: Ottoman Medicine. Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700. Suny Press, Albany NY 2009, ISBN 978-1-438-42529-0 , p. 41 .