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Heinrich Chajim Fürst

1592-1653MerchantEurope · 1592Most named place: Hamburg
Merchant

Heinrich Chajim Fürst was a merchant and court agent as well as an elder of the Jewish community of Hamburg. He was born 1592, in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in 1653, in Hamburg-Altona, Germany.

According to contemporary sources, Heinrich Chajim Fürst was also the richest Jew in Hamburg at the time.