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(1470-1550)

Practised medicine in Rome and served as a personal physician to Cardinal Domenico Grimani. Educated in philosophy, philology, and mathematics. He wrote diversely in both Hebrew and Latin on Aristotelian philosophy, the Talmud, Hebrew grammar, and Old Testament exegesis, as well as translating extensive parts of Euclid. From 1498 to 1500 he taught Hebrew to Johannes Reuchlin as a private teacher. (Source: Jerome Friedman, The Most Ancient Testimony, p. 21)

Biographies of Obadaiah ben Jacob Sforno:

• https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111930/jewish/Rabbi-Obadiah-Sforno.htm
• https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sforno-obadiah-ben-jacob