Coming from humble roots in the official ghetto for Jews in Frankfurt (now in Germany), the Rothschilds became a European ...

The first Rothschild patriarch, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, grew up in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, Germany. Through his father's textiles company, Mayer Amschel Rothschild was able to learn ...

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the first of the family to open a bank, was honored by Forbes as the seventh most influential businessman of all time and the inventor of modern banking who introduced ...

However, Amschel wasn't a rich man by any stretch of the imagination, as his meager dwelling suggests. Source: The House of Rothschild After his parents passed away at the age of 12, Mayer went to ...