Isaac de Pinto

Not to be confused with Isaac Pinto.
Traité de la circulation et du crédit, published by Marc-Michel Rey in 1771
Letters from some Portuguese, German and Polish Jews to Voltaire, 1817 (9th edition), Paris. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
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Isaac de Pinto (10 April 1717 – 13 August 1787) was a Dutch merchant and banker of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin who was one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company, as well as a scholar and philosophe who concentrated on Jewish emancipation and national debt. Pinto published mainly in French and once in Portuguese. According to historian Richard Popkin, Pinto "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."[1]

  1. ^ POPKIN, R. H. (1970). Hume and Isaac de Pinto. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 12(3), p. 430.