ABSTRACT
Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787) was a descendant of a famous family that had come from Lisbon via Antwerp to join the Jewish community in the Dutch Republic, first in Rotterdam and later in Amsterdam. He had a broad education and had mastered many languages, in which he corresponded with famous philosophers and maintained contact with the European elite of his day, including the court of the Dutch stadholder. In 1748 he helped to finance Stadholder William IV’s war against France.
