Quotes:Elias Levita

Zirkoff, Boris

Elias Levita. Jewish grammarian, b. 1469 at Neustadt, Bavaria; d. in 1549. Called himself “Ashkenazi,” the German, and bore also the nickname of “Bachur,” the youth or student, which he later gave as a title to his Hebrew grammar. Lived in Padua, Venice and Rome, where he found a patron in the learned general of the Augustinian Order, the future Cardinal Egidio di Viterbo, whom he helped in the study of the Kabbalah. War obliged him to fleetoVenice where he became, 1527, corrector in the printing house of Daniel Bomberg. After some years in Germany, he went back to Venice where he spent the last years of his life. Levita furthered the study of Hebrew in Christian circles, and wrote a large number of scholarly works on the Hebrew grammar. Scientifically important are his works on the Massora; his Concordance to the Massora (1536), and his Massoreth Hamasoreth (1538; Engl, tr., London, 1867).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 505