{"id":"abraham-furtado","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abraham-furtado","language":"en","name":"Abraham Furtado","name_en":"Abraham Furtado","name_ne":null,"description":"Member of the Assembly of Notables","headline":"Member of the Assembly of Notables","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Abraham Furtado (1756-1817) was born to a French Jewish family of Portuguese Marrano descent. He was born in London after his family emigrated there after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Soon after, they moved to a small town in southwestern France, Saint-Esprit. After a short time, the family moved to Bordeaux, where Furtado was raised and educated. Throughout school he studied history, philosophy, and politics which spearheaded his involvement with politics as a young adult. Furtado was an active Jewish Girondist, a member of the Bordeaux Jewish Delegation, and a member of the Bordeaux Popular Commission. He was elected president of the Assembly of Notables and later served as secretary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Sanhedrin; a Jewish high court convened in Paris.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"30 July 1756","date":"1756-07-30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"London","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"29 January 1817","date":"1817-01-29"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Bordeaux","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"France","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q142"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"banker","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q806798"},{"text":"ship-owner","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500251"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"secretary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80687"},{"text":"president","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30461"},{"text":"mayor's adjunct","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21664651"},{"text":"president","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1255921"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Furtado","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Abraham Furtado born?","a":"Abraham Furtado was born on 30 July 1756 in London."},{"q":"What positions has Abraham Furtado held?","a":"Positions held by Abraham Furtado include: secretary; president; mayor's adjunct; president."}],"related":[{"name":"Henry Kistemaeckers","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/henry-kistemaeckers"},{"name":"Michel François","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/michel-francois"},{"name":"Lydia Poser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lydia-poser"},{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"},{"name":"Renat Nelli","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/renat-nelli"},{"name":"Alfred Mathieu Giard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-mathieu-giard"},{"name":"Antoine Prost","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antoine-prost"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/abraham-furtado-bb733e5b53.jpg","width":307,"height":376,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham-furtado.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Abraham Furtado","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Furtado","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q288059","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288059","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Abraham-furtado.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham-furtado.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Abraham Furtado, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Abraham-furtado.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Abraham Furtado\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/abraham-furtado. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/abraham-furtado","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/abraham-furtado","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/abraham-furtado?lang=ne"}}