Oppenheimer, Samuel#

b. Heidelberg (Germany), June 21, 1630, d. Vienna, May 3, 1703, army contractor and court banker. Came to Vienna from Worms in 1680 and supplied the Austrian army during the war with the Turks and at the beginning of the Spanish war of succession; Prince Eugène praised him as "Saviour from the Turkish threat". When he died, which made the firm bankrupt, the government owed him approx. 6 million gulden. O. owned an important collection of manuscripts and art.

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