About Philip Ferdinand
Lived 1555 – 1598 (aged 42–43). Philip Ferdinand was a Dutch translator and university teacher.
Philip Ferdinand (1555, Poland - 1598, Leiden) was an English Hebraist.
Born in Poland to Polish Jewish parents, he converted first to Roman Catholicism and then to Protestantism. He was a poor student at Oxford University, where he taught Hebrew. He matriculated at Cambridge University in 1596. He became professor of Hebrew at Leiden, where he died. He translated Rabbinic works into Latin.
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British academic
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Philip Ferdinand was born in 1555.
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Philip Ferdinand died in 1598.
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Philip Ferdinand was a translator and university teacher.
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Philip Ferdinand was Dutch.
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