Henri Louis Bischoffsheim

Henri Louis Bischoffsheim
Born (1829-02-17)17 February 1829
Amsterdam
Died 11 March 1908(1908-03-11) (aged 79)
London
Nationality Dutch-British
Occupation Banker, politician
Portrait of his wife Clarissa Bischoffsheim, born Biedermann, by John Everett Millais.

Henri Louis Bischoffsheim (17 February 1829 – 11 March 1908) was a Dutch banker.[1][2][3]

He took over Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie in London from his father Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim.[4]

He died in 1908 in London, leaving an estate of ₤1,622,332 (equivalent to ₤835 million in 2010).[5][6]

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References

  1. Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael; Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 96. ISBN 9781403939104.
  2. Mosse, W. E. (1989). The German-Jewish Economic Élite, 1820–1935 : A Socio-Cultural Profile. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198229909.
  3. Jolles, Michael (2002). "Jews and the Carlton Club : with notes on Benjamin Disraeli, Henri Louis Bischoffsheim and Saul Isaac". London: Jolles. ISBN 0952310589.
  4. 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.
  5. Rubinstein, William (2001). "Jewish top wealth-holders in Britain, 1809–1909". Jewish Historical Studies. 37: 133–161. JSTOR 29780032.
  6. United Kingdom nominal Gross Domestic Product per capita figures follow the Measuring Worth series supplied in Lawrence H. Officer (2011), "What Was the U.K. GDP Then?" MeasuringWorth. These figures represent the figures prior to the update to the Blue Book in October 2011.
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