Amatus Lusitanus

Physician · 1511–1568

Converso descent · EstablishedExpulsion & Safed

Portuguese Jewish physician born to a converso family. He practiced across Europe, returned openly to Judaism in Salonica, and his case histories, the Centuriae, are a landmark of medicine.

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