Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim
| Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim | |
|---|---|
 Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim | |
| Born |
22 June 1800 Mainz, Germany |
| Died |
14 November 1873 (aged 73) Paris |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Banker, politician |
| Known for | Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie |
Biography
Louis-Raphael was the son of Nathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1773–1814), who was considered the founder of the banking dynasty. The father settled in Mainz in 1790, quickly becoming the French army supplier and an important member of the Jewish community there. When he died in 1814, his four children were orphans. Louis-Raphaël, the oldest, forced to abandon his studies at age 14 and began working for, Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt (1772–1843), who owned a bank in Frankfurt. He became friends with his son Benedict-Hayum Goldschmidt who was his own age.[1]
In 1820 Louis-Raphael left Frankfurt and moved to Amsterdam, at the time a major financial center, to create a bank in his name. The following year, he got his his brother Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim to form a financial management company.
In 1822 Louis-Raphael married Amélie Goldschimidt (1804–1887), daughter of Hayum-Salomon Goldschmidt, whom he knew from an early age.[2] They had two sons Raphaël-Louis Bischoffsheim and Henri Louis Bischoffsheim. The relations between the two families, already very strong, intensified further. In 1827 Louis-Raphael opened a new branch in Antwerp under the management of his brother Jonathan-Raphaël, who left the family bank in 1832, after he married Henriette Goldschmidt, sister of Amélie, to move permanently to Brussels.
The lives of the two families were closely linked, and in 1846 Louis-Raphael Goldschmidt opened a bank in London, a company that quickly went into the hands of the second son of Louis-Raphael, Henry-Louis (1823–1908). By that time, his father was already planning to open a new company in Paris (August 30, 1848) the 'Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt et Cie' with a capital of 750,000 francs. Members were Louis-Raphael, Hayum-Salomon (1821–1888), his nephew and son of Benedikt Goldschmidt,[3] and Raphaël-Louis, his firstborn.[4] In 1850 the "Bank Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt et Cie" officially opened its offices on Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, 26 in Paris. In those years he met Alphonse Pinard et Eduard Henstch, responsible for the "Comptoir d'escompte de Paris" with whom he worked in the following years.
In 1863, Louis-Raphael and the members of the Dutch Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas absorbed the branches in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels of the bank he created in 1820. In those years Louis-Raphaël assisted Pinard, Hentsch et Paulin Talabot in the creation of a new bank deposits in Paris, thus becoming one of the founders of the Societe Generale.[5] In 1872 he and his nephew Henri Bamberger (1826–1908), as well as Alphonse Pinard and Eduard Henstch, were architects of the merger of the "Banque de Crédit et dépôt des Pays-Bas" and "Banque de Paris ", which gave rise to a new Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas managed by Enrico Cernuschi.
Bischoffsheim died November 14, 1873 in Paris.
Awards
He was made a Knight of the Order of Leopold, on April 19, 1851, and a Knight of the Legion of Honor (France) on May 30, 1868.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Grange, Cyril (2005). "Les réseaux Matrimonial intra-confessionnels de la haute bourgeoisie juive à Paris à la fin du siècle xixe". Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- ↑ Kasper-Holtkotte, Cilli (2003). "Die Bischoffheims". Im Westen Neues: Migration und ihre Folgen : deutsche Juden als Pioniere jüdischen Lebens in Belgien, 18./19. Jahrhundert. Brill. pp. 181–186. ISBN 9004131094.
- ↑ "Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt". Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- 1 2 "Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim". Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- ↑ "Histoire BNP Paribas". Retrieved 28 February 2016.