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Meyer Michel David

18th centuryBankerEurope · c. 1750

Meyer Michel David was Hanoverian court banker and agent of the board of finance. He was born in the middle of the 18th century. Meyer left one hundred thousand thalers to found a school in Hanover in which sons of the Jewish poor might obtain free instruction in the sciences, in Hebrew and other languages, and might receive a monthly allowance. The school was named “Meyer Michel Davidsche Freischule”.

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