Abraham Curiel

Abraham Curiel (1545-1609), alias Jeronimo Nunes Ramires, was a physician and the son of the wealthy merchant Jacob Curiel of Coimbra of Coimbra.^[1][2][3] Curiel is described in several sources as "one of the greatest doctors of his time."^[4]

Dr Abraham Curiel
Born	1545
Died	1609
Noble family	Curiel
Spouse(s)	Sara Curiel
Issue	David Jacob

Education

Abraham Curiel was born to Jacob Curiel of Coimbra and was sent to be educated at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal between 1562 and 1570.^[4]

Curiel family

He wed Sara Curiel, alias Maria de Fonseca, with whom he fathered 11 children, including Jacob Curiel and David Curiel.^[5][6][7] His brother was Francisco de Vitoria, a Bishop in the Catholic Church. He was an eminent Portuguese physician and shortly after his death Sara fled the Lisbon inquisition to Madrid, Spain.^[8]

Medical work

Curiel qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1567 and remained at the University of Coimbra for further studies in medicine. In 1987, British historian Jonathan Israel wrote "Dr Jeronimo Nunes Ramires himself showed much less zest for travel than most of his brothers and is mainly noted for his long Latin treatise on blood-letting."^[9] This "360-page Latin treatise on blood-letting" was "inspired in a large part by Galen, the De Ratione Curandi per Sanguinis."^[10]

References

1. "Family tree of Dr. Jeronimo Nunes RAMIRES [licentiate in medicine, Coimbra, 1567]". Geneanet. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
2. "Dutch-Jewish Family History". rabbie.royalwebhosting.net. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
3. "Don Fray Francisco de Victoria OP (1540—92) Bishop of Tucumán". Jewish Historical Society of England. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
4. Coimbra, Universidade de. "História da Ciência na UC". História da Ciência na UC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-12-01.
5. ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (1987). "Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)". Studia Rosenthaliana. 21 (1): 14–34. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41481641.
6. Israel, Jonathan (1990-01-01). Empires and Entrepots: Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713. A&C Black. ISBN 9781852850227.
7. "Harold Zvi Rabbie's Roots". rabbie.royalwebhosting.net. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
8. Bodian, Miriam (1999). Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253213518.
9. ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (1987). "Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)". Studia Rosenthaliana. 21 (1): 14–34. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41481641.
10. Israel, Jonathan (1994). "Lopo Ramirez (David Curiel) and the Attempt to Establish a Sephardi Community in Antwerp in 1653-1654". Studia Rosenthaliana. 28 (1): 99–119. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41482274.