Background
He was born to the wine merchant Isaac Haim Capadose and Esther Mendes da Costa (both from prominent Portuguese-Jewish families).
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Abraham Capadose
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After four years" study, he graduated as a medical doctor in 1818 and set up as a physician in Amsterdam.
Career
Youth In 1796 the position of the Jews in the Netherlands was - at least in the social respect - considerably improved by the middle-class equalization. The Capadose family forms a good example of an emancipated and finally assimilated family. Little is known of Abraham"s youth, except that he was a good pupil of the Latin School.
After two years at the Amsterdam Athenaeum studying medicine, he went to the University of Leiden.
Conversion Together with Da Costa, Capadose had studied the Bible and, like da Costa, had become convinced that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament. Later life In 1829, Capadose married Adriana van der Houven.
From this marriage, three children were born. Just like Bilderdijk, De Clercq and Da Costa, Abraham Capadose belonged to the circle of the Dutch Revival movement.
This circle resisted the revolutionary and liberal minds and democratic ideas of their time - democracy was, in Capadose"s eyes, an act of resistance against the Creator.
Capadose is also notorious as a fanatical and outspoken adversary of cowpox vaccination, following in the steps of the conservative Willem Bilderdijk.
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December 16, 1874 (aged 79) -
Nationality
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Religion
Christianity