Jacob Curiel

Dom Jacob Curiel (26 September 1587 - 3 April 1664), known by his alias Dom Duarte Nunes da Costa, was a Sephardi Jewish merchant, diplomat, and nobleman.[1][2]

Jacob Curiel
Knight
Born26 September 1587
Lisbon, Portugal
Died3 April 1664
Hamburg, Germany
Noble familyCuriel
FatherDr Abraham Curiel
Occupationmerchant, diplomat

Curiel was educated at the University of Coimbra and the University of Bologna. Around 1620 he lived in Florence, where his son Moses Curiel was born. Around 1627 the family moved to Hamburg, Germany. Till 1640 he served as Agent to the Iberian Union, but then choose for the Portuguese Crown.[3][4]

On 14 June 1641 Jacob Curiel was ennobled by Joao IV of Portugal.[5]

In 1645 his son Moses Curiel was appointed as Agent of the Portuguese Crown in Amsterdam. Solomon Curiel, Moses Curiel's son, assumed the position of Agent of the Portuguese Crown in Hamburg after his father's death in 1697.

References
  1. ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (1987). "Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)". Studia Rosenthaliana. 21 (1): 14–34. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41481641.
  2. Kaplan, Yosef (2008). The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History. BRILL. ISBN 9789004149960.
  3. "Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren". dnbl.org. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  4. "Jacob Curiel". www.dutchjewry.org. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  5. Bodian, Miriam (1999). Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253213518.


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