Jacob ben Jehiel Loans

Reuchlin, 1506, tribute to Loans

Jacob ben Jehiel Loans (Yacov of Linz, Jakob von Linz, Yaakov ben Yechiel Loans) (died 1506) was an Italian-Jewish rabbi, Court Jew and personal physician to Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1440-93), and who was the first Hebrew teacher to Johann Reuchlin.[1][2][3][4][5] Loans had served for at least 7 years before he met Reuchlin, and was his teacher for nearly a year.[6][7] They met in 1492. Reuchlin wrote a letter to Loans in Hebrew in 1500 that he later published, which triggered attacks from Johann Pfefferkorn, an anti-Judaic Jewish-to-Christian convert. Loans knew Reuchlin was looking to acquire a Hebrew Bible codex, and Loans arranged for the Emperor to give one to Reuchlin.[8][9][10][11] He was raised to the nobility in 1465.[12] He is also said to have been the physician to Frederick's son and successor, Maximilian I.[13]

## Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

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* Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin, pp. 105 et seq.;
* Grätz, Gesch. ix. 47, 83, 147;
* Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 273;
* Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 208;
* Winter and Wünsche, Die Jüdische Litteratur, ii. 225.

## References

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1. ^ Cashion, Debra; Luttikhuizen, Henry; West, Ashley (2017-08-21). The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-35412-8.
2. ^ "LOANS, JACOB BEN JEHIEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
3. ^ Zimmer, Eric (1980). "Jewish and Christian Hebraist Collaboration in Sixteenth Century Germany". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 71 (2): 69–88\. doi:10.2307/1454627. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1454627.
4. ^ Hirsch, S. A. (1899). "Early English Hebraists. Roger Bacon and His Predecessors". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 12 (1): 34–88\. doi:10.2307/1450570. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1450570.
5. ^ Kaplan, Debra (2013). "Review of Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books". Jewish History. 27 (1): 101–105\. doi:10.1007/s10835-012-9175-1. ISSN 0334-701X. JSTOR 24709734.
6. ^ Price, David (2011-01-13). Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-539421-4.
7. ^ Bonfil, Robert (2012). "Review of Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books". Renaissance Studies. 26 (5): 765–768\. doi:10.1111/j.1477-4658.2012.00800.x. ISSN 0269-1213. JSTOR 24420140.
8. ^ Ron, Nathan (2023-10-03). "Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522): A Unique Philosemitic Public Intellectual". The European Legacy. 28 (7): 725–741\. doi:10.1080/10848770.2023.2220239. ISSN 1084-8770.
9. ^ Ron, Nathan (2021-07-27). Erasmus: Intellectual of the 16th Century. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-79860-4.
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11. ^ Posset, Franz (2019-09-30). Respect for the Jews: Collected Works, Volume 4. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-5326-7090-9.
12. ^ Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe. Wayne State University Press. 2018. doi:10.1353/book.61491. ISBN 978-0-8143-4485-9.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "LOANS, JACOB BEN JEHIEL". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.