Johannes Buxtorf[1] (Latin: Johannes Buxtorfius) (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis".[citation needed] His massive tome, De Synagoga Judaica (1st. ed. 1603), scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period.
Buxtorf was the father of Johannes Buxtorf the Younger.
- ^ also spelled as Buxtorff in the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement for 1894