Anselm Alexander Carl von Rothschild (1835 - 1854)

Ancestors

Biography

✡ Family-Info ✡

The Rothschild family is of Ashkenazi origin and originally came from a family of money changers and bankers who settled in Frankfurt's Judengasse (Frankfurt am Main). They had originally come to Frankfurt, like other Jewish families, after being expelled from Nuremberg in 1498.

The residence of the family was the Hinterhaus zur Pfanne (Judengasse 188), to which his ancestors had moved in 1664. The old residence was a house in the southern part of Judengasse called Zum roten Schild, which had been built in the 16th century by Isaak Elchanan Rothschild (first member of the family who was known to use the name Rothschild). The name is derived from the German Zum rothen Schild (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "at the red shield", in reference to the house where the family lived for many generations. As was often the case, the family had derived its surname from the name of the house. The name Rothschild was retained when the family moved to the northern part of Judengasse.

Anselm Alexander Carl von Rothschild was born on 24 May 1835 in Freie Stadt Frankfurt, Deutscher Bund, son of Freiherr Kalman Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855) and Adelheid Herz (1800–1853).

His siblings were:

1. Charlotte von Rothschild (13 June 1819 – 13 March 1884)
2. Freiherr Mayer Carl (Rothschild) von Rothschild (5 August 1820 – 16 October 1886)
3. Adolph Carl (Rothschild) von Rothschild (21 May 1823 – 7 February 1900)
4. Freiherr Wilhelm Carl (Rothschild) von Rothschild (16 May 1828 – 25 January 1901)

Carl passed away, aged 18, on ✡ 18 February 1854 in Freie Stadt Frankfurt, Deutscher Bund.

תנצב"ה

BURIAL: Alter Jüdischer Friedhof, Rat-Beil-Strasse, Frankfurt-Nordend, Frankfurt am Main, Stadtkreis Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, memorial page for Anselm Alexander Carl Rothschild (24 May 1835–18 Feb 1854), Find A Grave: Memorial #131239235, citing Alter Jüdischer Friedhof, Frankfurt am Main, Stadtkreis Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany; Maintained by Athanatos (contributor 46907585)

• Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NRM9-QLG : 10 February 2018), Anselm Alexander Carl von Rothschild, ; citing Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, Germany; FHL microfilm 341,759
• Deutschland Tote und Beerdigungen, 1582-1958, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ7Y-LYN : 9 February 2018), Anselm Alexander Carl von Rothschild, ; citing Page 112 No. 201a, reference Page 112 No. 201a; FHL microfilm 342,093
• FamilySearch ID KC56-K7P - Anselm Alexander Carl von Rothschild
• Rothschild Archive
• Britannica - Rothschild-Family
• Alexander Dietz, Stammbuch der Frankfurter Juden. Geschichtliche Mitteilungen über die Frankfurter Jüdischen Familien von 1349-1849, nebst einem Plane der Judengasse, Frankfurt a. M. 1907
• JewishGen.org
• The Jewish Encyclopedia - Rothschild
• Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Frankfurt. Mit Fotos von Klaus Meier-Ude und Texten von Valentin Senger. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1983