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Abraham Cohen de Herrera אברהם כהן דה הירירה also known as
Alonso Nunez de Herrera or
Abaham Irira (c.
1570 – c.
1635) was a
religious philosopher and
cabbalist. He is supposed by the historian
Heinrich Graetz to have been born in 1570. He is widely supposed to have been descended from a
Marrano family: place of birth is unknown but may (according to Barbosa Machado the
biographer) have been
Lisbon,
Portugal. Other sources link him to
Italy, specifically
Tuscany, and as the son of the last Chief Rabbi of
Córdoba in
Spain.
He is known to have married a Sara de Herrera in
Amsterdam in
1600; however, it's unlikely that this is the wife's original surname. It is also reasonably certain that he'd an uncle, Juan de Marchena, who worked as a factor for the
Sultan of Morocco Moulay, Achmed-el-Mansur.
While in
Cadiz on the
Sultan's business, Herrera is supposed to have been captured by the
English, was released again after an exchange of
diplomatic correspondence between the Sultan and
Queen Elizabeth I, and travelled thereafter to Amsterdam, where he returned to
Judaism. His date of death is between 1635 and
1639: Wiener believes it was 1635. According to Rodriguez de Castro he may have died in
Vienna. He wrote several works, originally in
Spanish but later (in accordance with his will) translated to
Hebrew.
Works
- Epistle on Shiur Qomah, an attempted reconciliation between kabbalah and philosophy. However, as Alexander Altmann, writes "Herrera was too much of a genuine philosopher to believe in the possibility of a fusion of the two realms, and he was too much of a genuine kabbalist to wish for it."
Puerta Del Cielo, a discourse on kabbalah and religious themes of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in relation to Occidentalism & Platonic philosophy. Among few texts of the Kabbalah written and directed toward common readership; criticized as such.
Abraham Cohen Herrera, Epitome y Compendio de la Logica o Dialectica, reprinted and edited by Giuseppa Saccaro Del Buffa, with a critical introduction in English, CLUEB, Bologna, 2002.
Sources
Bartleby.com, German Jewish Encyclopaedia, independent genealogical research.Further Information
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