SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Edmond James de Rothschild

1845 - 1934

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Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד, romanized: HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French member of the Rothschild banking family. A strong supporter of Jewish settlement in Palestine, his large donations lent significant support to the First Aliyah, which helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel—where he is simply known as "The Baron Rothschild", "HaBaron" (lit. 'The Baron'), or "Hanadiv Hayeduah" (lit. 'The noble donator'). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond James de Rothschild is the 120th most popular social activist (down from 83rd in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from France (down from 774th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Social Activist.

Edmond James de Rothschild was a French banker who was born in 1845 and died in 1934. He is most famous for being the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Edmond James de Rothschild ranks 120 out of 840. Before him are Thomas Cranmer, Annie Besant, Flora Tristan, Betty Ford, Vesna Vulović, and Pier Gerlofs Donia. After him are Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, René Cassin, Catharine MacKinnon, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, and William Luther Pierce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Edmond James de Rothschild ranks 19. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, George Reid, Nikola Pašić, Abai Qunanbaiuly, John Sparrow David Thompson, and Paul Vidal de La Blache. After him are Ion Ivanovici, Leopold Auer, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Laura Marx, George Darwin, and Fernand Cormon. Among people deceased in 1934, Edmond James de Rothschild ranks 26. Before him are Tōgō Heihachirō, Augusto César Sandino, Charley Patton, Louis Barthou, Marinus van der Lubbe, and Alice Liddell. After him are Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, Jean Vigo, William Morris Davis, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and Hans Hahn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond James de Rothschild ranks 1,064 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Druon (1918), Charles III of Navarre (1361), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082), Peter Faber (1506), and William X, Duke of Aquitaine (1099). After him are Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764), Laurent Blanc (1965), Tetricus I (250), René Cassin (1887), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Edmond James de Rothschild ranks 8. Before him are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Louise Michel (1830), René Just Haüy (1743), and Flora Tristan (1803). After him are René Cassin (1887), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Abbé Pierre (1912), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Jacques Roux (1752), and Ravachol (1859).

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