a celebrated Jewish grammarian, was born in 1472, at Neustadt in Franconia. He was professor of Hebrew at Padua, Venice, and Rome, and died at Venice in 1549. His principal works are the Masorah, or Traditio Doctrina, Ven. 1538, and a Chaldaic, Rabbinical, and Talmudic Lexicon, January 1541. His merits are summed up by Simon when he says, "Solus Elias Levita inter Judaeos desit nugari."