Amschel Moses Rothschild - Biography

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.

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