Joseph de la Vega

Joseph de la Vega (Joseph Penso de la Vega, first name also Josseph, Joseph or Jose wrote, * 1650 in Espejo, Córdoba province or Amsterdam, † November 13, 1692 in Amsterdam), was a marranischer writer and businessman, known as the author of a book on the stock market.

Life

Joseph de la Vega was in 1650 in Espejo, according to other data in Amsterdam, was born. His father Isaac Penso Felix left Spain to escape the Inquisition and came to Antwerp to Holland, where he returned to Judaism.

Except for a short stay in Livorno Joseph de la Vega spent most of his life in Amsterdam. Here he went to the Sephardic community (among others at Aboab Isaac da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar ) to school and in 1673 published his first Hebrew theater piece.

After he had published more literary works ( dramas and short stories ) in Spanish, he wrote in 1688 a book on the stock market Confusión de confusiones with which he is known today. The book deals in four dialogues with the transactions on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

Since 2000, the FESE ( Federation of European Securities Exchanges ) awards an annual De la Vega price.

Works (selection)

  • Asirei ha - Tikvah (Los Prisioneros de la esperanza ), Amsterdam in 1673.
  • Triunfos del águila eclipses y de la luna. Amsterdam in 1683.
  • Discursos académicos, morales, retóricos, y Sagrados. Recitados en la Florida Academia de los Floridos. Amsterdam 1685.
  • Confusión de confusiones. Dialogos curiosos entre un filósofo agudo, un mercader discreto y un accionista erudito describiendo el negocio de las acciones, su origen, etimologia su, su realidad, su juego y su enredo. Amsterdam 1688, In German. The confusion of confusions. Four dialogues on the stock exchange in Amsterdam. After the Spanish original translated and introduced by Dr. Otto Pringsheim. . Breslau 1919 ( Reprint: The confusion of confusions: Market Psychology - stock market speculation Hamburg 2010 ISBN 978-3868200621. .. )
  • Retrato de la Prudencia, y simulacro del Valor, al Augusto Monarca Guilielmo Tercero, Rey de la Gran Bretaña. Amsterdam year 1690.
  • Max Otte (ed.): Charles MacKay and Joseph de la Vega. Greed and madness - Why the crash always comes back ... Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3898795609. .
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