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Judah Loew ben Bezalel, also known as Rabbi Loew, the Maharal of Prague, or simply the Maharal, was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.
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science · Czech rabbi and Kabbalist (d. 1609) · rabbi · mathematician · philosopher · talmudist · also Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bezalel
Born 1 January 1512 · Died 17 September 1609 · Q363513
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Traditions existed of the Maharal's descent from the House of David, not through Yehudah Leib the Elder or Hai Gaon, but through Rashi and his ancestor Yokhanan the Sandlar (died 140 C
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Died 1609-09-17.
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Career landmark: landesrabbiner (1553–1573).
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Born 1512-01-01.
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