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nom7696 (22 / November / 2024)

Simó Zemah Duran (Mallorca, 1361 – Alger, 1444)

Creació de la fitxa: 2023-05-12
Darrera modificació: 2024-01-26
Categoria social i professional
físic - jueu - metge - rabí
Activitat professional
Privada
Tipus de formació
Oberta
Àrea d'activitat
Territoris: Magrib [Barbaria] - Mallorca (illa)
Localitats: Alger - Palma [Ciutat de Mallorca]
Comentaris
Metge (físic), de la ciutat de Mallorca, on nasqué el 1361. Fou fill d'Astruc Zemah Duran i germà d'Astruc Duran (fl. 1392). Exercí la medicina a Mallorca, però arran del pogrom de 1391 emigrà a Alger, al nord d'Àfrica. Allà continuà dedicant-se a la medicina i hi exercí càrrecs religiosos (arribà a ser el rabí de la seva comunitat). Fou autor de 23 obres religioses i filosòfiques, entre les quals destaquen els seus responsa. Morí a Alger el 1444. També anomenat Rashbatz. — Formes antigues del nom: «Struch Duran», «Struch Zemah Duran».
Bibliografia
Epstein (1968), The responsa of Rabbi Solomon ..., p. 136
Feliu i Marbres - Riera i Sans (1976), Poemes hebraics de jueus catalans ..., pp. 169-174
Contreras Mas (1997), Los médicos judíos en la ..., pp. 136-137

Lluís Cifuentes

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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).