Catalan (Catalano), Abraham

Physician in Padua; died 1642. He is the author of "'Olam Hafuk," an unpublished manuscript treatise on the plague of 1630-31, during which time he was very active.

Bibliography:

  * M. Osimo, Narrazione . . . Cenni Biografici della Famiglia Koen Cantarini, pp. 50, 107 et seq., Casale, Montferrat, 1875;
  * Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. xvi. 36.



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