Amschel Moses Rothschild
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| Amschel Moses Rothschild (Anschel ben Mosche Rothschild) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1710 |
| Died | 6 October 1755 Frankfurt |
| Children | 8 |
| Parent(s) | Moses Kalman 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]
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