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Daniel Itzig (18 March 1723 – 17 May 1799) was a Court Jew
Court Jew

Court Jew is a term for historical Jewish bankers or businessmen who lent money and handled the finances of some of the Christian European noble houses....
 of Kings Frederick the Great
Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick II was a monarch of Kingdom of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV of Margraviate of Brandenburg....
 and Frederick William II
Frederick William II of Prussia

Frederick William II was the fourth King of Kingdom of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death....
 of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a Germany monarchy from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire....
.

Itzig was born in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. His family was mercantile; amongst his ancestors was the famous Rabbi Moses Isserlis of Cracow. Itzig was the founder of a dynasty which included by descent or marriage many of the most notable figures of the German-Jewish period of emancipation, at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries.

Itzig was appointed Master of the Mint
Mint (coin)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufacturing coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is normally related in a fashion that more closely ties to the political situation of an era....
 by Frederick the Great, and court banker by his successor Frederick William II in 1797.






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Daniel Itzig (18 March 1723 – 17 May 1799) was a Court Jew
Court Jew

Court Jew is a term for historical Jewish bankers or businessmen who lent money and handled the finances of some of the Christian European noble houses....
 of Kings Frederick the Great
Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick II was a monarch of Kingdom of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was Frederick IV of Margraviate of Brandenburg....
 and Frederick William II
Frederick William II of Prussia

Frederick William II was the fourth King of Kingdom of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death....
 of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a Germany monarchy from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire....
.

Itzig was born in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. His family was mercantile; amongst his ancestors was the famous Rabbi Moses Isserlis of Cracow. Itzig was the founder of a dynasty which included by descent or marriage many of the most notable figures of the German-Jewish period of emancipation, at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries.

Itzig was appointed Master of the Mint
Mint (coin)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufacturing coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is normally related in a fashion that more closely ties to the political situation of an era....
 by Frederick the Great, and court banker by his successor Frederick William II in 1797. Neither of these monarchs was notably philo-semitic and Itzig was one of the very few Jews to receive such marks of privilege. He also became extraordinarily wealthy as a consequence.

Nearly all of the thirteen of his children
Itzig family

Many of the thirteen children of Daniel Itzig and Miriam Wulff, and their descendants and spouses, had significant impact on both Jewish and Germany social and cultural history....
 who lived to adulthood had remarkable and influential lives.

He is an ancestor of composers Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn

Fanny C?cilie Mendelssohn , later Fanny Hensel, was a Germany pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn....
 and Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....