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Meyer Löw Schomberg (1690 – 4 March 1761) was a German physician who moved to London and had a successful business there.

His father, Löw Schomberg, was a physician in Meyer's birthplace and Meyer (probably Löw's eldest son) followed his father's trade, studying classics, then (like his brothers, Salomon, Hertz, and Gerson) medicine, at the University ofGiessen. Completing hisMD degree in 1710, Meyer had practises inSchweinsberg,Blankenstein, and thenMetz, but then moved to London and settled there in 1721. His first employment in London was a salary of £30 a year from the wardens of theGreat Synagogue to look after the poor. TheRoyal College of Physicians admitted him as a licentiate on 19 March 1722 (giving his word and his bond, he was allowed to put off paying the £20 fee for that honour), on 12 January 1726 he became afellow of the Royal Society, and finally in 1730 he was admitted to thefreemasons' lodge of thePremier Grand Lodge of England at the Swan and Rummer, Finch Lane (serving as itsgrand steward in 1734).

By 1740 his professional income was said to be 4000 guineas a year, having established a successful practice (Sir William Browne attributed this to his offers of friendship and hospitality to young surgeons). He was, however, greatly envious of his contemporary,Jacob de Castro Sarmento, making a failed attempt to sabotage Sarmento's election to the Royal Society in 1729 by blackening his name, and in 1738 publicly denounced Sarmento's prescription of an opiate to Benjamin Mendes da Costa, one of Schomberg's former patients, in Janneway's Coffee House. Sarmento complained of the latter event to the censors of the Royal College of Physicians, but their fine of £4 against Schomberg for breaching their moral statutes only led Meyer embarking on a feud against the College via his sonIsaac. Becoming alienated from London's Jewish community in general and Sarmento and his allies in particular (explained in Schomberg's unpublished 1746 essay, Emunat omen, or ‘A physician's faith’, written in classical Hebrew, and involving his conversion todeism), he also got increasingly entangled in one expensive lawsuit after another. He also rejected the Jewish community by – after 1742 – encouraging his sons to becomeAnglican Christians if that would aid them in the liberal professions for which he had had them educated.

On his death, Meyer was buried in Hackney churchyard.

Schomberg had at least seven sons and one daughter:

• Isaac, physician, with Alexander left all but 3s. of their father's estate in his will[1]
• Ralph or Raphael, Isaac's twin, physician and public notary, left 1s. in his father's will[2]
• Joel, physician, practising in Metz andThann.
• Moses (1720–1779), public notary[3]
• Solomon (1724–1774), public notary, left 1s. in his father's will
• Rebecca (1719–1742), died young.[4]
• Alexander (1720–1804), Royal Navy captain, with Isaac left all but 3s. of their father's estate in his will
• Henry Schomberg, purchased an army commission, reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel, left 1s. in his father's will

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• E. R. Samuel, ‘Dr Meyer Schomberg's attack on the Jews of London, 1746’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 20 (1959–61), 83–111
• E. R. Samuel, ‘Anglo-Jewish notaries and scriveners’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 17 (1951–52), 113–59
• William Munk,The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols. (1861); 2nd edn, 3 vols. (1878)
• Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha, 10 (1913), 166
• P. Blachais, ‘L'incroyable histoire des Schombourgs, famille juive d'Alsace’, Bulletin du Cercle Généalogique d'Alsace (1988), 540–45
• R. D. Barnett, ‘Dr Jacob de Castro Sarmento and Sephardim in medical practice in 18th-century London’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 27 (1978–80), 84–114 · E. Carmoly, Histoires des médecins juifs anciens et modernes (1844)
• G. L. Green, Anglo-Jewry and the Royal Navy, 1740–1820: traders and those who served (1989)
• C. Roth, The Great Synagogue, London, 1690–1940 (1950)
• A. Sakula, ‘The doctors Schomberg and the Royal College of Physicians: an eighteenth-century shemozzle’, Journal of Medical Biography, 2 (1994), 113–19
• University of Giessen registers
• Society of Genealogists, Colyer Fergusson Genealogical Collection
• Annals, Royal College of Physicians, London

• http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24826/?back=,24817 Oxford DNB article^{[permanent dead link]}

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