Marx Schlesinger

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Marx (Markus) Schlesinger (also Mordechai ; died September 18, 1754 in Vienna ) was a Jewish court factor and military supplier to the Viennese imperial court .

Life

Marx Schlesinger was the son of the Viennese court factor Benjamin Wolf Schlesinger (d. 1727) and his wife Zärtel, the son-in-law of Abraham Spitz and father-in-law of Löw Leidesdorf, also court factors in Vienna. He served the Austrian court both as a major outfitter and as a banker . In 1731 Charles VI appointed him . to the imperial court factor , which he also remained under Maria Theresa . He was also court factor for the Electoral Palatinate , the Archbishop of Mainz and the Duke of Braunschweig . He also served as court jeweler to Karl Alexander von Württemberg . Nevertheless, he died in great poverty.

His grandfather was Marx (Mordechai) Schlesinger (born 1615; died 1683 in Klosterneuburg ), son of Moses Margulies , who was the military outfitter for the Viennese court and metal supplier for the Vienna Mint before the expulsion by Emperor Leopold I in 1670 . He then lived with many other displaced persons in Eisenstadt until he was murdered by Polish soldiers in 1683, the year of the Turkish siege of Vienna. Due to a lack of metal, he was made a coin supplier again in 1681.

literature

  • Max Grunwald : Samuel Oppenheimer and his circle , Vienna and Leipzig 1913

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Peter George Muir Dickson: Finance and Government Under Maria Theresia, 1740-1780: Society and government . tape 1 . Clarendon Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-19-822570-6 , pp. 144 ( google.de [accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  2. ^ Heinrich Schnee: The court finance and the modern state: history and system of court factors at German princely courts in the age of absolutism. According to archival sources . Duncker & Humblot, 1963 ( google.de [accessed March 29, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Schlesinger Israel Marx - September 29, 1734. Retrieved March 29, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Barbara Staudinger: Of silver dealers and coin Jews. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ Max Grunwald: Samuel Oppenheimer and his circle . Рипол Классик, 1913, ISBN 978-5-87614-351-8 ( google.de [accessed March 29, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Schlesinger, Marx
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlesinger, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish court factor and military supplier at the Viennese imperial court
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1754
Place of death Vienna