Uriel da Costa
Portuguese philosopher (c.1585-1640) · Netherlands · On the map · Academics · Died at 55
Uriel da Costa was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism, whereupon he questioned the Catholic and rabbinic orthodoxies of his time.
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![Uriel da Costa's excommunication (1888) by Meijer de Haan took 8 years of work, created a huge backlash, and disappeared shortly after, and is still not extant.[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Uriel_da_Costa%E2%80%99s_excommunication.jpg)
Uriel da Costa's excommunication (1888) by Meijer de Haan took 8 years of work, created a huge backlash, and disappeared shortly after, and is still not extant.[10]
Exemplar Humanae Vitae, by Uriel Acosta.
Imagined portrait of da Costa instructing the young Baruch Spinoza, by Samuel Hirszenberg (1901)
Repetitio ad D. 41.2, 16th-century manuscript. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Manuscritos latinos, K.II.2, ff. 522-550.About this person
This led him into conflict with both Christian and Jewish institutions: his books were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and several Jewish authorities excommunicated him. His iconoclastic life culminated in suicide in c. 1640.
Country
Netherlands
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1585 to 1640 · aged 55
