Lazare Richtenberger (1792 – 3 December 1853) was Holy Roman Empire-born banker of Jewish descent. He was closely connected to the court of Leopold I of Belgium and later was awarded the

Order of Leopold Order of Leopold may refer to: * Order of Leopold (Austria), founded in 1808 by emperor Francis I of Austria and discontinued in 1918 * Order of Leopold (Belgium), founded in 1832 by king Leopold I of Belgium * Order of Leopold II, founded in Congo ...

. Richtenberger served as James Mayer de Rothschild's agent in Brussels from 1832 on, in the early years after the foundation of the

Kingdom of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the ...

. He was joined by

Samuel Lambert Samuel Lambert (15 June 1806 – 9 April 1875) was a French-born Belgian banker of Alsatian Jewish descent. He was an agent of de Rothschild Frères in Belgium. In 1830, he joined his father-in-law Lazare Richtenberger, who had already serv ...

, who later became his son-in-law. As of 1843, the name of the firm was “Lambert–Richtenberger, agent Rothschild”. After Richtenberger's death in 1853, Lambert took over the firm and combined it with his father's company, also an agency of Rothschild, in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

to form the

Banque Lambert Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, french: Banque Bruxelles Lambert) was a Belgian bank that was created through merger in 1975 and became part of ING Group in 1998. It provided retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgi ...

.Youssef Cassis: ″Metropolen des Kapitals – 1780–2005″, Murmann Verlag, p. 63, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938017-95-1

References

1792 births 1853 deaths Immigrants to Belgium Belgian people of German-Jewish descent Belgian bankers {{Belgium-bio-stub