!!!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.

!Literature
M. Grunwald, S. O. und sein Kreis, 1913; K. Schubert 
(ed.), Die oe. Hofjuden und ihre Zeit, 1991.



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