Demetrios Doukas of Crete (, ; c.1480–c.1527) was a professor of Greek in Spain and teacher of many Spanish humanists. Originally a member of the

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(dating from the

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, 1453), Ducas moved to Spain and took part in the editing of the

Complutensian Polyglot Bible The Complutensian Polyglot Bible is the name given to the first printed polyglot of the entire Bible. The edition was initiated and financed by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) and published by Complutense University in Al ...

. He was succeeded as chair of Greek by Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán in 1519.Studies in Church History Volume V - Page 133 "Demetrius Ducas of Crete was probably the chief editor of the Greek parts of the Polyglot, although Zuniga and Nunez de Guzman were the more famous names. He held the chair of Greek at San Ildefonso from 1513 and was concerned with .."

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