Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (died 1549)

Elia Levita

Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (1469–1549)

Elia Levita was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, Hebraist, and poet. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh, the most popular Yiddish chivalric romance. He was one of the foremost teachers of Hebrew and Jewish mysticism to Christian clergy, nobility, and intellectuals during the…