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About David Curiel
- David Curiel (11 May 1594 - 4 October 1666), alias Lopo Ramirez, was a Sephardi Jewish merchant.David Curiel was the son of Dr Abraham Curiel and the brother of Jacob Curiel.
- He was sent to Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany.
- In Amsterdam, David Curiel served as Agent to the Spanish Crown as well as being engaged in the import business of jewellery and gunpowder across Europe.
- He was a financier of the Spanish delegation at the Peace of Westphalia.Curiel was perhaps the most prominent member of Amsterdam's Sephardi community and was a generous patron of Hebrew scholarship.In 1994, the British historian Jonathan Israel wrote a book charting the life of David Curiel, Lopo Ramirez (David Curiel) and the Attempt to Establish a Sephardi Community in Antwerp in 1653-1654.Curiel had two sons born in the Netherlands.
- Samuel in 1655 and Isaac in 1659.
- He insisted that his sons be circumcised in accordance with Jewish law and is even said to have refrained from attending the stock exchange on the Sabbath.
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