Amschel Moses Rothschild
Rothschild family home in the Frankfurter Judengasse.
Amschel Moses Rothschild (c. 1710 – 6 October 1755) was an 18th-century German Jewish moneychanger and trader in silk cloth in the Frankfurter Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main in present-day Germany.
He was the son of Moses Kalman Rothschild (died 19 October 1735).[1]
He married Schönche Lechnich (died 1756).[2]
They had eight children, of whom the fourth was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who went on to be the founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty.
Rothschild died in a smallpox epidemic in the Frankfurt ghetto in 1755.[3]
References
- ↑ Elon (1996), p. 43.
- ↑ Pohl, Manfred (2005), "Rothschild, Meyer Amschel", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German) 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 131–133
- ↑ Elon (1996), p. 55.
Sources
- Amos Elon (1996). Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255706-1.
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