Antonio Emriquez Gomez, whose real name was Enriquez de Paz, a Spanish dramatist, born in Segovia early in the 17th century.

He was the son of a converted Portuguese Jew, lived much in France, became a captain in the Spanish army, and fled from Spain to escape the inquisition on account of his alleged Judaism, to which religion he finally returned. His Siglo pitagorieo (Rouen, 1647 and 1682; Brussels, 1727) is a mystical book, partly in verse and partly in prose, satirizing the ancient doctrine of transmigration; and he wrote other similar works, besides 22 comedies which were very successful on the stage, and some of which resembled Calderon's, especially A lo que obliga el honor ("The Duties of Honor"), contained with three other plays in his Aca-demias morales de las Musas (Rouen, 1642; Madrid, 1660; Barcelona, 1701). Some of his plays were printed with the name of Calderon, and others with that of Fernando de Zarate, which led to the mistake that he was identical with the latter. - See Jose Amador de los Rios, Estudios historicos, politicos y literarios sobre los Judios de Espaila (Madrid, 1848).