Tag: Baruch Spinoza
November 24, 1632: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of...
Benedict de Spinoza, Hebrew forename Baruch, Latin forename Benedictus, Portuguese Bento de Espinosa, (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam—died February 21, 1677, The Hague), Dutch Jewish philosopher, one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism...
July 27, 1656: Baruch Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been...