Moses Curiel

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Moses Curiel
Knight of the Royal Household of Portugal
Beschrijving Hof van den Ed: Heer d'Acoste
Born1620
Died1697
Noble familyCuriel
Issue
FatherJacob Curiel
Occupationmerchant, diplomat

Sephardic Jewish nobleman, diplomat, and wealthy merchant, who traded in diamonds, sugar and tobacco.[2][3]

Curiel was born in Florence;[4] he was the eldest son of Jacob Curiel, alias Duarte Nunes da Costa.[5][6] In 1627 the family moved to Hamburg. He was sent to be educated at Protestant Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1642 he moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands and served as Agent to the Portuguese Crown from 1645 until his death.[7][8] In 1654 he lived on Sint Antoniesbreestraat and married Rabecka Abbas. During his time in Amsterdam he generously patronised Hebrew scholarship.[9]

He was a major contributor to the Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam, built in 1675.[10][11] From around 1687 he lived along the Nieuwe Herengracht where he had bought two plots in the year before.[12] He was a close friend of William of Orange and housed him in Amsterdam on more than one occasion.[13]

The Curiel family is widely believed to have been 'one of the richest and most important families in the Sephardic Diaspora in northwest Europe.'[14] In 1984, the historian Jonathan Israel wrote a book charting Moses Curiel's life, An Amsterdam Jewish Merchant of the Golden Age: Jeronimo Nunes Da Costa (1620-1697), Agent of Portugal in the Dutch Republic.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Mozes Curiel". www.biografischportaal.nl. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  2. ISBN 9780253213518
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  3. ISBN 9780826435538
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  4. ^ ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. "AN AMSTERDAM JEWISH MERCHANT OF THE GOLDEN AGE: JERONIMO NUNES DA COSTA (1620-1697), AGENT OF PORTUGAL IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC." Studia Rosenthaliana 18, no. 1 (1984): 21-40. Accessed August 13, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41442146.
  5. ISBN 9780253213518
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  6. ISBN 9781852850227
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  7. ISBN 9781852850227
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  8. ISBN 9789004149960
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  9. ISBN 9780802084507
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  10. ^ "Huis van Jeronimo Nunes da Costa (Mozes Curiël) aan de Nieuwe Herengracht te Amsterdam, Romeyn de Hooghe, c. 1695". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  11. ^ "Woonhuis familie Nunes da Costa (Residence of the Nunes Da Costa family)". www.iamsterdam.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  12. ^ Amsterdam City Archives, 4 May 1686
  13. ISBN 9780521843522
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  14. ISBN 9781527504301
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  15. ^ Israel, Jonathan Irvine (1984). An Amsterdam Jewish Merchant of the Golden Age: Jeronimo Nunes Da Costa (1620-1697), Agent of Portugal in the Dutch Republic.


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