Samuel Oppenheimer

Samuel Oppenheimer was an Ashkenazi Jewish banker, imperial court diplomat, factor, and military supplier for the Holy Roman Emperor. He enjoyed the special favor of Emperor Leopold I, to whom he advanced considerable sums of money for the Great Turkish War. Prince Eugene of Savoy brought him a large number of valuable Hebrew manuscripts from Turkey, which became the nucleus of the famous David Oppenheim Library, now part of the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

21 June 1630

Born on the same birth day (21 June): Anne Carson • Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe • David Beerling • Dean Saunders • Fernando Savater • John Dollond • Paolo Soleri