Jacob Curiel

For the 18th century merchant and great-grandson of Jacob, see Jahacob 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
Born	26 September 1587 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	3 April 1664 Hamburg, Germany
Noble family	Curiel
Father	Abraham Curiel
Occupation	merchant, diplomat

Curiel was educated at the University of Coimbra and the University of Bologna. In 1618 he acquired a historically significant Tanakh in Pisa.^[3] Around 1620 he lived in Florence, where his son Moses Curiel was born. Around 1627 the family moved to Hamburg, Germany. Until 1640 he served as Agent to the Iberian Union, but then choose for the Portuguese Crown.^[4]

On 14 June 1641 Jacob Curiel was ennobled by John 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. Kayserling, Meyer (1890). "Baroccas, Mordechay". Biblioteca española-portugueza-judaica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des auteurs juifs, de leurs ouvrages espagnols et portugais et des oeuvres sur et contre les Juifs et le judaïsme (in French). C. J. Trubner – via Google Books.
4. "Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren". dnbl.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.