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Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774-1855)

The Rothschild Archive (People page on the Rothschild Research Forum).

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  1. Salomon Mayer Rothschild, von Rothschild from 1817, Baron von Rothschild from 1822, was born in his father's house, Hinterpfann, in Frankfurt on 9 September 1774
  2. In 1820 Prince Metternich, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, entered into negotiations with the House of Rothschild for a large loan that was to take the form of a lottery
  3. Salomon funded the first major steam railway to be built in continental Europe, the Kaiser Ferdinand's Nordbahn, which opened in 1839. In 1843 he purchased the Witkowitz iron works in Moravia
  4. Prevented as a Jew from owning property in the city, he simply rented the whole of the Römischer Kaiser hotel, which became the base for the firm he founded in his name
  5. he died on 27 July, 1855(château Suresnes)

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