Adelheid von Rothschild (also Adélaïde de Rothschild, 19 August 1853 – 22 June 1935) was a member of the
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Fr ...
.
Early life
Adelheid was born on 19 August 1853 in
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...
. She was one of three daughters of
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild and
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild
Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (5 March 1832 – 8 March 1924) was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron.
Life and career
Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest daughter of Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild, a ...
of the
Naples branch of the Rothschild family.
Her paternal grandparents were
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
Carl Mayer ''Freiherr'' von Rothschild (24 April 1788 – 10 March 1855) was a German-born banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples.
Biography
Born Kalman Mayer Rothschild in Frankfu ...
and Adelheid (
née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...
Hertz) von Rothschild. Her maternal grandparents were
Anselm von Rothschild
Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron (29 January 1803 – 27 July 1874) was an Austrian banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family.
Family
He was born in the Imperial City of Frankfurt, the ...
and Charlotte Nathan Rothschild (the daughter of
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Nathan Mayer Rothschild (16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836) was an English-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he was the third of the five sons of Gutle (Schnapper) and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a ...
).
Personal life
In 1877, she married her cousin Baron
Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (1845–1934), the youngest child of
James Mayer Rothschild
James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (born Jakob Mayer Rothschild; 15 May 1792 – 15 November 1868) was a German- French banker and the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Early life
James de Rothschild was bor ...
and Betty von Rothschild. Together, they were the parents of three children:
*
James Armand Edmond de Rothschild (1878–1957), who married
Dorothy Mathilde Pinto (1895–1988)
*
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (1881–1957), who married
Noémie Halphen (1888–1968)
* Miriam Caroline Alexandrine de Rothschild.
From the 1880s, Adelheid became involved in her husband's life work in Palestine. In 1954, her remains were laid to rest alongside those of her husband at
Ramat HaNadiv
Ramat Hanadiv ( he, רמת הנדיב, ''Heights of the Benefactor''), is a nature park and garden in northern Israel, covering at the southern end of Mount Carmel between Zikhron Ya'akov to the north and Binyamina to the south. The Jewish Nation ...
in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
.
Descendants
Through her son Maurice, she was the grandmother of Baron
Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild (1926–1997), who married
Nadine Lhopitalier (b. 1932).
References
External links
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1853 births
1935 deaths
French philanthropists
19th-century German Jews
French people of German-Jewish descent
Adelheid
Adelheid is the modern Dutch and German form of the Old High German female given name Adalheidis, meaning "nobility" or "noble-ness". It may refer to the following people:
* Saint Adelheid or Adelaide of Italy, (931–999), Holy Roman Empress an ...
French Zionists
Edmond James de Rothschild
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