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Elia Levita

1469 - 1549

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Elia Levita (13 February 1469 – 28 January 1549) (Hebrew: אליהו בן אשר הלוי אשכנזי), also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Elia Levita Ashkenazi, Eliahu Levita, Eliyahu haBahur ("Elijah the Bachelor"), Elye Bokher, was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar, and poet. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh (written in 1507–1508), the most popular chivalric romance written in Yiddish. Living for a decade in the house of Cardinal Giles of Viterbo, he was one of the foremost teachers of Christian clergy, nobility, and intellectuals in Hebrew and in Jewish mysticism during the Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elia Levita is the 3,597th most popular writer (down from 3,084th in 2019), the 3,698th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,228th in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Elia Levita ranks 3,597 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikha'il Na'ima, Henry Becque, James Russell Lowell, Albert Cossery, Chögyam Trungpa, and Concepción Arenal. After him are Gabriela Zapolska, Vladimir Megre, Demyan Bedny, Sergio Ramírez, Nevil Shute, and Vassilis Vassilikos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1469, Elia Levita ranks 10. Before him are Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Thomas Cajetan, Ishak Pasha, John Fisher, Rodrigo de Triana, and Francesco Granacci. After him is Laura Cereta. Among people deceased in 1549, Elia Levita ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Il Sodoma, Giampietrino, Christine of Saxony, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, and Aelbrecht Bouts. After him is Matsudaira Hirotada.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elia Levita ranks 3,700 out of 7,253. Before him are Thorsten Fink (1967), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia (1857), Franz Tunder (1614), Marianne Werner (1924), and Karl Hohmann (1908). After him are Ludwig Renn (1889), Hans von Koessler (1853), Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Conrad of Parzham (1818), Bernhard Klodt (1926), and Otto Lesser (1830).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Elia Levita ranks 220. Before him are Paul Fleming (1609), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Oskar Maria Graf (1894), Herman Grimm (1828), and Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680). After him are Brigitte Hamann (1940), Erich Weinert (1890), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), Fritz Reuter (1810), Lisa Tetzner (1894), and Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810).

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