PHILOSOPHER

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

1512 - 1609

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Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; 1512 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia. Loew wrote on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism. His work Gur Aryeh al HaTorah is a supercommentary on Rashi's Torah commentary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Judah Loew ben Bezalel is the 261st most popular philosopher (down from 234th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Poland (down from 100th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Judah Loew ben Bezalel is most famous for his creation of the golem.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 261 out of 1,267. Before him are Arcesilaus, Roger Garaudy, Pherecydes of Syros, Donald Davidson, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, and Euclid of Megara. After him are Marsilius of Padua, Nicole Oresme, François Fénelon, Johann Reuchlin, Pat Robertson, and Vladimir Solovyov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1512, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 4. Before him are James V of Scotland, Gerardus Mercator, and Catherine Parr. After him are Henry, King of Portugal, Manco Inca Yupanqui, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Devlet I Giray, Sibylle of Cleves, Robert Recorde, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, and Prospero Fontana. Among people deceased in 1609, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 3. Before him are Annibale Carracci, and Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, John Leonardi, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Yi San-hae.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 112 out of 1,694. Before him are Marie Walewska (1786), Georg Forster (1754), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Dziga Vertov (1896), Saint Casimir (1458), and Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898). After him are Ulrich Beck (1944), Karl Hanke (1903), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Władysław Sikorski (1881), and Arthur Liebehenschel (1901).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Judah Loew ben Bezalel ranks 8. Before him are Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), and Christian Wolff (1679). After him are Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Paul Tillich (1886), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), and Chaïm Perelman (1912).

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