Philip Ferdinand

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Philip Ferdinand (1555, Poland - 1598, Leiden) was an English Hebraist.

Born in Poland to Polish Jewish parents, he converted first to Roman Catholicism and then to Protestantism. He was a at Oxford University, where he taught Hebrew. He matriculated at Cambridge University in 1596. He became professor of Hebrew at Leiden, where he died. He translated Rabbinic works into Latin.

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• Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Ferdinand, Philip" . Dictionary of National Biography. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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