Jacob Curiel

{{For|the 18th century merchant and great-grandson of Jacob|Jahacob Curiel}}

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| birth_date = 26 September 1587

| birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal

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| death_date = 3 April 1664

| death_place = Hamburg, Germany

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| occupation =merchant, diplomat

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Dom Jacob Curiel (26 September 1587 - 3 April 1664), known by his alias Dom Duarte Nunes da Costa, was a Sephardi Jewish merchant, diplomat, and nobleman.{{Cite journal|last=ISRAEL|first=JONATHAN I.|date=1987|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=21|issue=1|pages=14–34|issn=0039-3347|jstor=41481641|title=Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syFFpCwBlacC&q=jacob+curiel+1641&pg=PA42|title=The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History|last=Kaplan|first=Yosef|date=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004149960|language=en}}

Curiel was educated at the University of Coimbra and the University of Bologna. In 1618 he acquired a historically significant Tanakh in Pisa.{{Cite book|last=Kayserling|first=Meyer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1XQAAAAMAA|chapter=Baroccas, Mordechay|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1XQAAAAMAAJ&q=jahacob+curiel&pg=PA26|via=Google Books|title=Biblioteca española-portugueza-judaica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des auteurs juifs, de leurs ouvrages espagnols et portugais et des oeuvres sur et contre les Juifs et le judaïsme|date=1890|publisher=C. J. Trubner|language=fr}} Around 1620 he lived in Florence, where his son Moses Curiel was born. Around 1627 the family moved to Hamburg, Germany. Until 1640 he served as Agent to the Iberian Union, but then choose for the Portuguese Crown.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=curi003&prev=search|title=Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren |website=dnbl.org|access-date=2019-10-05}}

On 14 June 1641 Jacob Curiel was ennobled by John IV of Portugal.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VzJHjw_iecC&q=jacob+curiel+1641&pg=PA37|title=Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam|last=Bodian|first=Miriam|date=1999|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253213518|language=en}}

In 1645 his son Moses Curiel was appointed as Agent of the Portuguese Crown in Amsterdam. Solomon Curiel, Moses Curiel's son, assumed the position of Agent of the Portuguese Crown in Hamburg after his father's death in 1697.