Abraham of Bohemia (1435–1533)

Born 1435 CE, died 1533 CE.

Abraham ben Moses Jaffe of Bohemia (Hebrew: אברהם בן משה יפה מבוהמיה; d. 1533) also known by his Latin name Abraham Judaeus Bohemus was a very prominent 16th-century Bohemian Jewish banker, tax collector, money lender and Court Jew who later moved to Poland and served as the Prefect of the Council of Four Lands from 1514 to 1518.

Text from the Wikipedia article Abraham_of_Bohemia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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