Joachim Edler von Popper

Joachim Popper ( * 1730 in Bresnitz, † 1795 in Prague) ( ​​later Joachim Edler von Popper ) was a Jewish businessman and court factor in Austria.

He acted with whalebone and had strong relationships to the Bohemian nobility and the Habsburgs, which gave him great political influence. During the Seven Years' War he was a supplier of the Austrian army. In the 1780s he founded with his acquired capital a foreign exchange trading company in Vienna. At the same time he was also involved in the tobacco trade. In 1790 he was knighted.

After his death, Joachim Popper in the Jewish Cemetery ( Zizkov ) was buried.

Sources and Literature

  • The YIVO Encyclopedia of Yews in Eastern Europe: Popper family.
  • Josef Karniel: The tolerance policies of Emperor Joseph II Aus d Heb. by Leo Koppel. Gerlingen, 1986, ISBN 3-88350-454-8.
  • Samuel Krauss: Joachim Edler von Popper. A time and living picture of the history of the Jews in Bohemia. , 1926.
  • William O. McCagg: A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918. Bloomington, Ind., 1989, ISBN 0-253-33189-7.
  • January Županič: The emergence of the Jewish nobility in the Habsburg monarchy. In: Ashkenaz - Magazine of History and Culture of the Jews. 17 Jg, Issue 2, 2007, Reprint, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-484-98612-2 ( ISBN formally wrong ), pp. 473-497.
  • January Županič: Židovská Šlechta Podunajské monarchy. Mezi Davidovou hvězdou křížem. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha 2012, ISBN 978-80-7422-180-4, pp. 537-540.
  • Entrepreneurs (18th century)
  • Person (Judaism )
  • Born in 1730
  • Died in 1795
  • Man
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