Rothschild

This article is about the Rothschild surname. For other uses, see Rothschild (disambiguation).

Rothschild (German Rotschild [rot Schild]: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]), meaning "red shield", is a surname derived from a house distinguished with a red shield (Middle High German and New High German rot (or roth)= "red" + schild = "shield"), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th century.[1]

The German surname "Rothschild" is not related to the Scottish/Irish surname of "Rothchilds" from the United Kingdom.

People

Main article: Rothschild family

Most notable people with this surname are descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a European financial dynasty and, in modern history, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune.

In Denmark, by royal decree of 29 March 1814 all Danish Jews were obliged to adopt a surname after their town of residence. In the records, one family with residence in Roskilde took the name Rothschild, presumably because of the German pronunciation of the town's name.[2] The wife of writer Meïr Aron Goldschmidt , Lea Rothschild (born 1801) were of that family. There are no indications that the Rothschild of Roskilde has any relation with the other Rothschild families.

The name is also carried by others, mostly Ashkenazi Jews, who are not related to the famous family.

People outside the banker family

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References

  1. "Rothschild". Behind the Name.
  2. Elsebeth Paikin, President Jewish Genealogical Society of Denmark

Bibliography

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