Barthold Douma van Burmania
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Barthold Douma van Burmania (bapt. 17 November 1695 in Hallum – 24 March 1766 in Vienna)[1] was a Dutch statesman and ambassador to the court of Vienna in the eighteenth century.
Van Burmania was born in a small village in
He was a man of broad humanitarian sympathies and an especially staunch friend of the Jews. When, in the 1740s,
A royal edict was issued on 8 April 1745, ordering all Jews of Moravia also to emigrate within a short time. Again Burmania pleaded for them, and the edicts were modified on 15 May 1745, the Jews being allowed to remain in Bohemia and Moravia "until further orders". Burmania endeavored to have repealed the edict which was issued on 25 June 1746, prohibiting all Jews from coming within two hours' distance of Prague; but he was not successful. Finally, however, on July 1748, Maria Theresa revoked the edict of 18 December 1744 "on account of the pressure from the foreign ambassadors" and the Jews were allowed to return to Prague.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Barthold Dowe Burmania". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
References
- ^ ISBN 9789065500762.
- ^ http://tresoar.nl/freegjesam/as_web.exe?dregio09+D+20065867[permanent dead link]
- ^ Inventory of the legation with the German Emperor, 1699-1807