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Moses Israel Fürst
d. c. 1692Merchant and financierEurope · 1692Most named place: Hamburg
Moses Israel Fürst was a merchant and financier of Hamburg, Germany. He also acted as a Court Jew, a title given at the time to Jewish bankers and businessmen who lent money and handled the finances of some of the Christian European noble houses. In 1688, Moses Israel Fürst and his business partner Michael Hinrichsen obtained the right to hold a tobacco monopoly in the state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Fürst held the monopoly until his death in 1692.
