Abraham Curiel

{{short description|Portuguese physician}} {{infobox noble|name=Abraham Curiel|pre-nominals=Dr|birth_date=1545|death_date=1609|noble family=Curiel|spouse=Sara Curiel|issue=*David

*Jacob}} '''Abraham Curiel''' (1545-1609), alias '''Jeronimo Nunes Ramires''', was a physician and the son of the wealthy merchant Jacob Curiel of Coimbra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/acorba?lang=en&n=ramires+licentiate+in+medicine+coimbra+1567&oc=0&p=dr.+jeronimo+nunes|title=Family tree of Dr. Jeronimo Nunes RAMIRES [licentiate in medicine, Coimbra, 1567]|website=Geneanet|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rabbie.royalwebhosting.net/g018.html|title=Dutch-Jewish Family History|website=rabbie.royalwebhosting.net|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jhse.org/articles/don-fray-francisco-de-victoria-op-1540-92-bishop-of-tucuman/|title=Don Fray Francisco de Victoria OP (1540—92) Bishop of Tucumán|website=Jewish Historical Society of England|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> Curiel is described in several sources as "one of the greatest doctors of his time."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Coimbra|first=Universidade de|title=História da Ciência na UC|url=https://www.uc.pt/org/historia_ciencia_na_uc/autores/RAMIRES_jeronimonunes|access-date=2020-12-01|website=História da Ciência na UC|language=pt}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name=":0" />

== Curiel family == He wed Sara Curiel, alias Maria de Fonseca, with whom he fathered 11 children, including Jacob Curiel and David Curiel.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=ISRAEL|first=JONATHAN I.|date=1987|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=21|issue=1|pages=14–34|issn=0039-3347|jstor=41481641|title=Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShYX4qoEYPYC&q=dr+jeronimo+nunes+ramires&pg=PA333|title=Empires and Entrepots: Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713|last=Israel|first=Jonathan|date=1990-01-01|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781852850227|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rabbie.royalwebhosting.net/index.html|title=Harold Zvi Rabbie's Roots|website=rabbie.royalwebhosting.net|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VzJHjw_iecC&q=jeromino+nunes+ramires&pg=PA37|title=Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam|last=Bodian|first=Miriam|date=1999|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253213518|language=en}}</ref>

== 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."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=ISRAEL|first=JONATHAN I.|title=Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)|date=1987|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41481641|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=21|issue=1|pages=14–34|jstor=41481641|issn=0039-3347}}</ref> This "360-page Latin treatise on blood-letting" was "inspired in a large part by Galen, the ''De Ratione Curandi per Sanguinis''."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Israel|first=Jonathan|date=1994|title=Lopo Ramirez (David Curiel) and the Attempt to Establish a Sephardi Community in Antwerp in 1653-1654|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41482274|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=28|issue=1|pages=99–119|jstor=41482274|issn=0039-3347}}</ref>

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