Simon Wolf Oppenheimer

Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (died 10 November 1726) was a German Jewish banker and Court Jew of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Hanover. He was the son of Samuel Oppenheimer, and was married to Frade Behrends, the granddaughter of Leffmann Behrends.^[1]

The astronomer Raphael Levi Hannover was a bookkeeper in his firm. His son took over his banking business after his death in 1726, and later employed Mayer Amschel Rothschild as an apprentice between 1757 and 1763.^[2]

References[]

^ Stern, Selma (1950). The Court Jew: A Contribution to the History of the Period of Absolutism in Europe. Transaction Publishers. p. 213.
^ Spingola, Deanna (2011). The Ruling Elite: A Study in Imperialism, Genocide and Emancipation. Trafford. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-4269-5462-7.

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[1] Stern, Selma (1950). The Court Jew: A Contribution to the History of the Period of Absolutism in Europe. Transaction Publishers. p. 213.

[2] Spingola, Deanna (2011). The Ruling Elite: A Study in Imperialism, Genocide and Emancipation. Trafford. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-4269-5462-7.

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