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Si'a, Leon Judah Aryeh (Nasr al Din)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Physician in Constantinople, and a friend of Jewish science lived before 1633. He translated Judah ha-Levi's "Cuzari" and Baḥya's "Ḥobot ha-Lebabot" from Arabic into Latin, which his friend Jacob Roman intended to print together with the Hebrew translation and the Arabic text. He was on friendly terms with Anton Leger, chaplain of the Dutch embassy in Constantinople, through whom he recommended his friend Roman (in a letter written in Latin and dated Dec., 1633) to Johannes Buxtorf, Junior, of Basel. He had corresponded with Buxtorf at an earlier date. When Rakoczy I., Prince of Transylvania, in 1639 appointed Si'a to be his court physician, the latter left Constantinople, discarding Judaism at the same time, as Buxtorf wrote to Professor Hottinger at Zurich (Aug. 11, 1641).
) Carmoly, Histoire des Médecins Juifs , p. 189 (who says that Si'a did not come from Flanders to Constantinople) R. E. J. 8:85 et seq. These files are public domain.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Si'a, Leon Judah Aryeh (Nasr al Din)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/sia-leon-judah-aryeh-nasr-al-din.html. 1901.
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