Quotes:Rugger, Prosper

Zirkoff, Boris

Rugger, Prosper (formerly Salomon Meir ben Moses) (b. 1606). Jewish scholar, b. at Novara, 1606. At thirteen years of age already known as a good Hebraist. Appointed Rabbi at Jerusalem. On June 25, 1664, joined the Christian Church and took name of Prosper Ruggerius. Date of death is unknown. While still a member of the Synagogue, wrote a work on the advent of the Messiah, which was to take place in 1676; also a Comm. on the Pirke Shira, and biographies. Works written after conversion are still in MSS. (Vide Jöcher, Gelehrten-Lexicon, III, 379, s.v. Meir ben-Moses Novara.)

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 474