Joseph de la Vega
Joseph de la Vega ( Joseph Penso de la Vega, first name also written Josseph, Josef or José ; * 1650 in Espejo, Province of Córdoba or Amsterdam , † November 13, 1692 in Amsterdam), was a Marran writer and businessman, known as the author of one Book on the stock market .
Life
Joseph de la Vega was born in Espejo around 1650, according to other sources in Amsterdam. His father Isaac Penso Felix left Spain to escape the Inquisition and came over Antwerp to Holland , where he became Judaism returned.
Apart from a brief stay in Livorno , Joseph de la Vega spent most of his life in Amsterdam. Here he went to school in the Sephardic community (among others with Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar) and published his first Hebrew play in 1673 .
After publishing other literary works (dramas and short stories) in Spanish , in 1688 he wrote a book on the Confusión de confusiones stock exchange , with which he is known to this day. The book deals with business on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in four dialogues .
The FESE (Federation of European Securities Exchanges) has been awarding a De la Vega Prize every year since 2000 .
Works (selection)
- Asirei ha-Tikwah (Los prisioneros de la esperanza) , Amsterdam 1673.
- Triunfos del águila y eclipses de la luna . Amsterdam 1683.
- Discursos académicos, morales, retóricos, y sagrados. Recitados en la Florida Academia de los Floridos . Amsterdam 1685.
- Confusion de confusiones. Dialogos curiosos entre un filósofo agudo, un mercader discreto y un accionista erudito describiendo el negocio de las acciones, su origen, su etimología, su realidad, su juego y su enredo . Amsterdam 1688. In German: The Confusion of Confusions. Four dialogues about the Amsterdam Stock Exchange . Translated from the Spanish original and introduced by Dr. Otto Pringsheim. Breslau 1919. (New edition: The Confusion of Confusions: Stock 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 1690.
- Max Otte (eds.): Charles MacKay and Joseph de la Vega. Greed and madness - why the crash keeps coming ... Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3898795609 .
literature
- Moses Bensabat Amzalak : As operações de bolsa segundo Josseph de la Vega, ou José da Veiga, economista português so século XVII . Lisbon 1926.
- Kenneth R. Scholberg: PENSO DE LA VEGA, JOSEPH . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 15, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865943-5 , p. 730 (English).
Web links
- Isidore Singer, Meyer Kayserling : PENSO, JOSEPH. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Footnotes
- ↑ Scholberg (EJ2 2007) gives Amsterdam as the place of birth.
- ↑ FESE's website ( memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vega, Joseph de la |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vega, Joseph Penso de la; Vega, Joseph de la; Vega, Josef de la; Vega, José de la |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish author and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1650 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Espejo, Province of Cordoba or Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1692 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |