Maurice de Rothschild
Rothschild in 1914
Born	Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild ( 1881-05-19 ) 19 May 1881 Boulogne-Billancourt , France
Died	4 September 1957 (1957-09-04) (aged 76) Pregny-Chambesy , Switzerland
Occupation(s)	Financier, politician, art collector, philanthropist
Spouse	Noemie Halphen ​ ( m.  1909) ​
Children	Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild ( b. 1926)
Parent(s)	Edmond James de Rothschild and Adelheid von Rothschild

Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 ? 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France .

Early life [ edit ]

Maurice de Rothschild was born on 19 May 1881 in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris . He was the second child of Edmond James de Rothschild (1845?1934) and Adelheid von Rothschild . He grew up at the Chateau Rothschild in Boulogne-Billancourt . ^[1]

Career [ edit ]

Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless Adolph Carl von Rothschild  [ fr ] (1823?1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva , Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.

Rothschild was elected in 1919 to the Chamber of Deputies , where he served until 1929. ^[2] Between 1929 and 1945, he was a member of the Senate for Hautes-Alpes . ^[1]

In June 1940, during the Battle of France , Rothschild and several family members received Portuguese visas from Aristides de Sousa Mendes , allowing them to flee France for Portugal. Maurice de Rothschild sailed from Lisbon to Scotland the following month. ^[3]

Personal life and death [ edit ]

In 1909 Maurice de Rothschild married Noemie de Rothschild . Her mother was Marie Hermine Rodrigues Pereire (1860?1936), daughter of Eugene Pereire of the Pereire banking family whose Credit Mobilier were arch-competitors of the Rothschilds. Noemie Halphen and Maurice de Rothschild had one child, a son Edmond .

Legacy [ edit ]

Maurice de Rothschild is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Malagasy lizard, Paracontias rothschildi . ^[4]

Maurice de Rothschild's African expedition 1904-1905, zoological in nature, was conveyed in a three-volume archive and published in 1922, entitled " Voyage de M. le baron Maurice de Rothschild en Ethiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905) : resultats scientifiques : animaux articules ". It is housed at the Biological Diversity Heritage Library. ^[5]

References [ edit ]

Further reading [ edit ]

• The Rothschilds; a Family Portrait by Frederic Morton . Atheneum Publishers (1962) ISBN   978-1568362205 (1998 reprint)
• The Rothschilds, a Family of Fortune by Virginia Cowles . Alfred A. Knopf (1973) ISBN   978-0297765387
• Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty by Derek Wilson . Scribner, London (1988) ISBN   978-0684190181
• House of Rothschild : Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson . Viking Press (1998) ISBN   978-0140240849
• The House of Rothschild (vol. 2) : The World's Banker: 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson. Viking Press (1999) ISBN   978-0670887941

External links [ edit ]

• Media related to Maurice de Rothschild at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about Maurice de Rothschild at Internet Archive
• The Rothschild Archive - an international center in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family .