Amschel Moses Rothschild

Amschel Moses Rothschild (c. 1710 – 6 October 1755) was a German Jewish money changer and trader in silk cloth in the Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto of the Free City of Frankfurt in present-day Germany.

[1] The Frankfurt ghetto had been established in 1462 by the intervention of Emperor Frederick III; the first known members of the family lived on No.

Isaak Elchanan Bacharach (d. 1585) had the building erected about 1567 and began to use the name "Rothschild", which his descendants kept even after they moved to No.

Rothschild had a small shop, according to a 1749 tax register his assets amounted to the rather large sum of 1,375 guilders.

Amschel Moses Rothschild died in a smallpox epidemic in the Frankfurt ghetto in 1755.