Baron Maurice de Hirsch
Baron Maurice de Hirsch · Economics & Business
Financier and philanthropist; funded Jewish agricultural colonies
1831, Munich, Bavaria — 1896, Ógyalla, Hungary (now Hurbanovo, Slovakia)
Munich, Brussels, Paris
Baron Maurice de Hirsch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Financier and philanthropist; funded Jewish agricultural colonies
Baron Maurice de Hirsch was born into a wealthy Jewish banking family in Munich and became a financier and one of the greatest Jewish philanthropists of the 19th century. He funded large-scale Jewish agricultural colonization (notably through the Jewish Colonization Association) to help persecuted Jews of the Russian Empire.
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Financier and philanthropist; funded Jewish agricultural colonies
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_de_Hirsch
