Isaac de Pinto

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.1: Dutch and Flemish Writing and Culture, 800-present.

Dates

Born 1717
Died 1787
Activity 1760-1787

Places

Born in Netherlands
Active in Netherlands

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Political Economist

Resources

Pinto's Works

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Born in Amsterdam into a wealthy family of mercantile Jewish-Portuguese origins in 1771, Isaac de Pinto was a scholar and became widely known for his reflections on economic matters. He was one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company and advised the stadholder William IV of Orange on financial matters, helping to arrange funding for the Dutch armies in their defeat of the defeat of the French at Bergen op Zoom. He defended the Jews against political attack, notably by Voltaire, in his

Apologie pour la Nation Juive, ou Réflexions Critiques

(1762), which he sent in manuscript as a reply to Voltaire and for which he received his thanks. In the same year he published in Amsterdam an influential commentary on the economic effects of luxury,

Essai sur le Luxe

(1762). In 1768,…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Isaac de Pinto". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 April 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12070, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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