Epistolae spinoza biography
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Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
Born on 24 November 1632 into a family that formed part of the Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam, Baruch (Bento; Benedict) Spinoza was the middle son of Michael d’Espinosa (d.
1654) and his second wife, Hanna [Aba] Deborah (d. 1638).
Spinoza's inconsistency
Following an education — which appears to have been cut short — at the Ets Haim school, he began work in his father’s import-export business. From 1653 he studied Latin as a pupil of Francis van den Enden, a former Jesuit and philosopher.
On 27 July 1656, at the age of twenty-three, Spinoza was banned by the Sephardic community of Amsterdam for the practice of ‘abominable heresies’ and ‘monstrous deeds’.
By the time he moved to Rijnsburg, near Leiden, in 1661 he seems to have taken up lens-grinding as an occupation; just two years later he settled in Voorburg. Spinoza’s early work, the Korte verhandeling van God, de mensch en des