Samuel Sarphati
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Samuel Sarphati (1813-1866) was a Dutch doctor, physician, and city planner.
Sarphati's parents were Sephardis, Portuguese Jews that arrived in the Netherlands in the 17th century. While only middle-class, his parents were able to let him conduct a Latin school. At age twenty Sarphati started studying medicine in Leiden, which he finished with a promotion in 1839.
During his work thereafter as a doctor in Amsterdam, Sarphati encountered the bad hygiene among the poor in Amsterdam. Sarphati played an important role in the initiation of waste transport in 1847. Sarphati became involved in politics, particularly in city planning. Beside public health he also initiated improvements in education and industrialization.
[edit] Buildings built on Sarphati's initiative
- The first trade school
- A bread factory (Maatschappij voor Meel-en-Broodfabrieken)
- Palace of National Industry (Paleis voor volksvlijt), destroyed by fire in 1929
- InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam (Amstel Hotel)
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