Abraham Curiel

Dr Abraham Curiel (1545-1609), alias Dr Jeronimo Nunes Ramires, was a physician and the son of the wealthy merchant Jacob Curiel of Coimbra.[1][2][3]

Abraham Curiel was sent to be educated at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy. He wed Sara Curiel, alias Maria de Fonseca, with whom he fathered 11 children, including Jacob Curiel and David Curiel.[4][5][6]

He was an eminent Portuguese physician and shortly after his death Sara fled the Lisbon inquisition to Madrid, Spain.[7]

References
  1. "Family tree of Dr. Jeronimo Nunes RAMIRES [licentiate in medicine, Coimbra, 1567]". Geneanet. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  2. "Dutch-Jewish Family History". rabbie.royalwebhosting.net. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  3. "Don Fray Francisco de Victoria OP (1540—92) Bishop of Tucumán". Jewish Historical Society of England. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  4. ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (1987). "Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)". Studia Rosenthaliana. 21 (1): 14–34. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41481641.
  5. Israel, Jonathan (1990-01-01). Empires and Entrepots: Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713. A&C Black. ISBN 9781852850227.
  6. "Harold Zvi Rabbie's Roots". rabbie.royalwebhosting.net. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  7. Bodian, Miriam (1999). Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253213518.


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