Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
NameSamson/ Shimshon b’ Josef Wertheim(er) 
Birth17 Jan 1658, D, Worms
Death6 Aug 1724, Austria, Wien (= Vienna)
Spouses
Birth15 Mar 1658, D, Mannheim?
Death24 Apr 1715, Austria, Wien (= Vienna)
FatherIsaac b’ Susman/ Meschulam Brilin Hammelburg (~1625-1678)
MotherSara/ Sarlan/ Sorle b’ Wolf Oppenheim Heidelberg (~1625-1673)
Marriageabt 1680, D, Worms?
ChildrenWolf-Simon b’ Samson (~1681-1765)
Serchen b’ Samson (~1685-1739)
Tolze b’ Samson (~1690-<1739)
Sara/Sorle b’ Samson (~1690-1724)
Leib/ Loeb b’ Samson (~1698-1763)
Notes for Samson/ Shimshon b’ Josef Wertheim(er)
Shtadlan and ‘kaiserlicher Hoffaktor’ — ‘ab”d’ , Chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia
son of Josef/Josel b’ NN Wertheimer (d. 2.5.1713) & NN
1684 moving to Wien on appeal of the imperial Court-factor Samuel Oppenheimer — becoming his authorized agent and, after 1703, his successor.
he had at least 9 children, amongst them:
# Wolf-Simon b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 12.1.1765) >>
# Serchen b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 9.3.1739) >>
# Sore b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 14.7.1724) >>
# Jehuda-Leib b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 12.2.1763) >>
# Tolze b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. ?) >>
NB -- Quotations from genealogy Alain Gugenheim ( cf. www.geneanet.org )
“He arrived in Vienna on December 2, 1684, and associated himself with the banker Samuel Oppenheimer, sharing the latter's privilege of residence. During the absence of Oppenheimer, Wertheimer represented him in transactions with the Austrian government. Wertheimer soon gained the confidence of Emperor Leopold I, who presented a portrait of himself to Wertheimer and his son Wolf, and on December 15, 1701, followed this gift with another of 1,000 ducats for the financier's success in obtaining for the daughter of the King of Poland a dowry of 1,000,000 florins from her father upon her marriage to Leopold's brother-in-law Duke Charles Philip.
In the Spanish War of Succession Wertheimer united with Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for the equipment of the imperial army and for the supply of provisions. After Oppenheimer's failure, and his sudden death in 1703, Wertheimer maintained the credit of the state and found new sources of income. On August 29, 1703, the Emperor appointed him court factor, and extended for twenty years his privileges of free religious worship, denizenship, and immunity from taxation. Joseph I, who succeeded his father on May 5, 1705, confirmed Wertheimer's title and privileges.
Under Emperor Joseph I, Wertheimer maintained his position as a financier and creditor of the state. He was in personal relations with Prince Eugene of Savoy, to whom he paid 300,000 florins promised by Joseph I, Charles VI adding another 100,000 florins. During the Turkish war Wertheimer made large loans to the government. The title of "Landesrabbiner", which the Jews of Hungary had bestowed on Wertheimer, was made effective by Charles VI (August 26, 1711). Wertheimer, according to a contemporary account of one of his relatives, Abraham Levi, was called the ‘Juden Kaiser’. Ten imperial soldiers stood as sentinels before his house. He possessed many of the palaces and gardens in Vienna, and numerous estates and houses in Germany, e.g., in Frankfurt am Main, Worms, and other cities. He established schools, and distributed large amounts of money in Europe and in the Holy Land. Alien Jews were not allowed to remain over night in Vienna without a written permit from him”.
[concerning Rabbinical knowledge:]
“Wertheimer did not discontinue his rabbinical studies. In a manuscript volume he left a number of derashot that he had delivered in the private synagogue in his house; these show considerable Talmudic erudition. He delivered many funeral sermons on the deaths of distinguished rabbis, as Simchah Cohen and David ben Israel, rabbi of Trebitsch and son-in-law of Rabbi Menachem Krochmal, Rabbi of Nikolsburg. From far and near, questions of religion, particularly of ritual, were submitted to him and to the rabbinical court over which he presided; and to the latter he called such great authorities as Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig, Simeon ben Judah Löb Jalles of Kraków, and Alexander ben Menahem ha-Levi of Prossnitz.”
son of Josef/Josel b’ NN Wertheimer (d. 2.5.1713) & NN
1684 moving to Wien on appeal of the imperial Court-factor Samuel Oppenheimer — becoming his authorized agent and, after 1703, his successor.
he had at least 9 children, amongst them:
# Wolf-Simon b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 12.1.1765) >>
# Serchen b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 9.3.1739) >>
# Sore b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 14.7.1724) >>
# Jehuda-Leib b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. 12.2.1763) >>
# Tolze b’ Samson Wertheimer (d. ?) >>
NB -- Quotations from genealogy Alain Gugenheim ( cf. www.geneanet.org )
“He arrived in Vienna on December 2, 1684, and associated himself with the banker Samuel Oppenheimer, sharing the latter's privilege of residence. During the absence of Oppenheimer, Wertheimer represented him in transactions with the Austrian government. Wertheimer soon gained the confidence of Emperor Leopold I, who presented a portrait of himself to Wertheimer and his son Wolf, and on December 15, 1701, followed this gift with another of 1,000 ducats for the financier's success in obtaining for the daughter of the King of Poland a dowry of 1,000,000 florins from her father upon her marriage to Leopold's brother-in-law Duke Charles Philip.
In the Spanish War of Succession Wertheimer united with Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for the equipment of the imperial army and for the supply of provisions. After Oppenheimer's failure, and his sudden death in 1703, Wertheimer maintained the credit of the state and found new sources of income. On August 29, 1703, the Emperor appointed him court factor, and extended for twenty years his privileges of free religious worship, denizenship, and immunity from taxation. Joseph I, who succeeded his father on May 5, 1705, confirmed Wertheimer's title and privileges.
Under Emperor Joseph I, Wertheimer maintained his position as a financier and creditor of the state. He was in personal relations with Prince Eugene of Savoy, to whom he paid 300,000 florins promised by Joseph I, Charles VI adding another 100,000 florins. During the Turkish war Wertheimer made large loans to the government. The title of "Landesrabbiner", which the Jews of Hungary had bestowed on Wertheimer, was made effective by Charles VI (August 26, 1711). Wertheimer, according to a contemporary account of one of his relatives, Abraham Levi, was called the ‘Juden Kaiser’. Ten imperial soldiers stood as sentinels before his house. He possessed many of the palaces and gardens in Vienna, and numerous estates and houses in Germany, e.g., in Frankfurt am Main, Worms, and other cities. He established schools, and distributed large amounts of money in Europe and in the Holy Land. Alien Jews were not allowed to remain over night in Vienna without a written permit from him”.
[concerning Rabbinical knowledge:]
“Wertheimer did not discontinue his rabbinical studies. In a manuscript volume he left a number of derashot that he had delivered in the private synagogue in his house; these show considerable Talmudic erudition. He delivered many funeral sermons on the deaths of distinguished rabbis, as Simchah Cohen and David ben Israel, rabbi of Trebitsch and son-in-law of Rabbi Menachem Krochmal, Rabbi of Nikolsburg. From far and near, questions of religion, particularly of ritual, were submitted to him and to the rabbinical court over which he presided; and to the latter he called such great authorities as Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig, Simeon ben Judah Löb Jalles of Kraków, and Alexander ben Menahem ha-Levi of Prossnitz.”