About Alfonso de Alcalá
Lived 1465 – 1540 (aged 74–75). Alfonso de Alcalá was a Spanish linguist, translator, bible translator, physician and jurist.
Alfonso de Alcalá (Alcalá la Real, 1520s) was a Spanish physician, professor of medicine and also Hebraist. He is to be distinguished from the Hebraist Alfonso de Zamora.
He was formerly a physician, but converted to Christianity prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros commissioned him, together with Alfonso of Zamora and Paul Nuñez Coronel to provide a new translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin for the Complutensian Polyglot (1514–17).
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Who was Alfonso de Alcalá?
Spanish Hebraist
When was Alfonso de Alcalá born?
Alfonso de Alcalá was born in 1465 in Alcalá la Real.
When did Alfonso de Alcalá die?
Alfonso de Alcalá died in 1540 in Salamanca.
What was Alfonso de Alcalá's occupation?
Alfonso de Alcalá was a linguist, translator, bible translator, physician and jurist.
What nationality was Alfonso de Alcalá?
Alfonso de Alcalá was Spanish.
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