Johanan Luria

 ( 15th-century German Rabbis ) 

Johanan ben Aaron ben Nathanael Luria () was an Alsatian Talmudist. He lived successively at Niedernheim and Strasbourg at the end of the fifteenth century and in the beginning of the sixteenth. After having studied for many years in German yeshivot, he returned to Alsace and settled in Strasburg, where he founded a yeshiva by permission of the government. Luria was the author of an ethical work entitled " Hadrakah" (Kraków, ) and of " Meshibat Nefesh" (Adolf Neubauer, " Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. in the Bodleian Library" No. 257), an aggadic and Jewish mysticism commentary on the Pentateuch, founded on Rashi. To this commentary was appended a dissertation in which Luria refuted the arguments advanced by Christians against Judaism.
Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:

• Eliakim Carmoly, Itinéraires de la Terre Sainte, p. 345;
• Leopold Zunz, pp. 106–130; [2]
• xi. 546;
• Steinschneider, col. 1398.

His father Aaron ben Nathanael Luria is often cited as the first Lurie and the progenitor of this family.Dr. Paul Jacobi, "The Historicity of the RaSHI Descent", Avotaynu - vol VI No. 1 p23 One of his descendants was Elijah Loans.

Johanan had two brothers, Yechiel Yehuda and Judah "the physician". Yechiel Yehuda had four children, including Dreizel Miriam Zeisel Luria (Moses Isserles's grandmother) and Julia-Malka Luria (Meir Katzenellenbogen's mother).