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Rózsika Rothschild (born Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein;
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, 15 October 1870 –
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, 30 June 1940) was a tennis player and the wife of the banker and entomologist Charles Rothschild.


Life

She was born as Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania). She grew up as one of seven children of an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, Alfred Edler von Wertheimstein. The Wertheimstein family was the one of the first Jewish families in Europe to be ennobled without having previously converted to Christianity. The multi-lingual Rózsika was regarded as very interested in politics. Around the turn of the century she was a very well known tennis player and national Hungarian champion. However, tennis was then almost exclusively operated by the nobility. She was married in
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on 6 February 1907 to Charles Rothschild, son of
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from the English branch of the Rothschild family, whom she had met during a butterfly excursion in the
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(other sources indicate that it was a tennis court in Karlsbad). The couple lived on his estate in
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. After the early death of her husband in 1923, she raised her four children alone.


See also

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Miriam Louisa Rothschild Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild (5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany. Early life Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in No ...
(1908–2005),
zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and d ...
* Victor Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild (1910–1990),
biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...
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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
player and Labour Party member * Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild (1913–1988), named '' Nica'', and after her marriage ''Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter'',
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
patron


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Biographical details on Geneanet
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