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a Spanish convert from Judaism, was born at Segovia in 1480. After his baptism, in 1492, he studied theology, and was appointed professor at the University of Salamanca, where he died, September 30, 1534. He was a celebrated Talmudist, and deeply versed in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and the Oriental languages. He contributed to the famous Complutensian Polyglot. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:189; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:965; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Lindo, Hist. of the Jews in Spain, page 358. (B.P.)