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pronunciation:
[duh pintoh]
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| Dutch businessman and banker of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was a director of the WIC (Dutch West India Company) and VOC (United East India Company), a friend of Stadtholder William IV, and diplomatic envoy of Stadtholder William V. He wrote a defence of the Jews against Voltaire, who had expressed anti-Semitic views in his anti-religious treatises and his Dictionnaire philosophique (1674). After his involvement in the negotiations for the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1763) de Pinto was given a life pension of £500 by the English East India Company for his services. |
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