Amschel Moses Rothschild
(died 6 October 1755) was an 18th century German Jewish moneychanger and trader in silk cloth in the
ghetto (called "Judengasse" or Jew Alley) in
Frankfurt am
Main
, Germany
.
He was the son of Moses Kalman Rothschild (died 19 October
1735).
He married Schönche Lechnich (died 1756).
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.
Amschel Moses Rothschild died in a smallpox epidemic in the
Frankfurt ghetto in 1755.
References
- Elon, p.43.
- Elon, p.55.
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