Abraham Castanho

Abraham Castanho was a Spanish poet who lived at Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of an elegy on the martyr Abraham Nuñez Bernal, who was burned at Córdoba May 3, 1655. It was inserted in "Elogios que Zelosos Dedicaron á la Felice Memoria", etc., published probably at Amsterdam in 1656.

Bibliography

*Wolf, Johann Christoph, "Bibliotheca Hebræa" iii, Nos. cxlix. et seq.
*Kayserling, Meyer, "Sephardim", p. 262
*—, "Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica", p. 35
*Fürst, Julius, "Bibliotheca Judaica" i, 148.G. I. Br.