Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Jewish German banker (1744-1812) · Business Professionals · Died at 68
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Something wrong?He built the banking dynasty that would dominate European finance for half a century after his death. A German Jewish banker working from Frankfurt, he laid the architecture for what became the Rothschild name - the family that turned cross-border capital into an empire.
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Rothschild family home in the Frankfurter Judengasse
The Elector of Hesse entrusting Mayer Amschel Rothschild with his treasure
Grave stone of Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main. His name as it appears on the stone was Moses Mayer, son of Amschel, and he apparently added the Amschel, as in later generations.Family
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Born in February 1743 or 1744, Mayer Amschel Rothschild started as a banker in a German Jewish community with little access to the continent's financial centers. He founded what became the Rothschild banking dynasty, though its dominance came later - between the 1820s and 1870s, well after his death in September 1812. Forbes would call him a "founding father of international finance" and rank him seventh on its list of the twenty most influential businessmen of all time. He didn't live to see the zenith, but he built the foundation.
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