Isaac de Pinto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isaac de Pinto

Jewish writer, inhabitant of De Pinto House in Amsterdam

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1717

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1787

Profession: writer, economist, author, philosopher

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Not to be confused with Isaac Pinto, an American Jewish publisher.Isaac de Pinto (Amsterdam, 10 April 1717 – 13 August 1787 in the Hague) was a Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, a merchant/banker, one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company, a scholar, and a philosophe who concentrated on Jewish emancipation and National Debt.
"He was one of the very few Jews of the eighteenth century, before Moses Mendelssohn, able to operate and express himself in the mainstreams of European culture."