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Maurice de Hirsch

1831 - 1896

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Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (German: Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; French: Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. He was the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association, which sponsored large-scale Jewish immigration to Argentina. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice de Hirsch is the 216th most popular businessperson (down from 182nd in 2019), the 1,927th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,711th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Maurice de Hirsch ranks 216 out of 847. Before him are Tom Wolf, Melitta Bentz, Morris Chang, John Langenus, Franz Josef Popp, and Rebiya Kadeer. After him are Stockton Rush, John Jacob Astor, Joe Weider, Tomáš Baťa, Vincenzo Lancia, and Giulia Tofana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Maurice de Hirsch ranks 38. Before him are Isabella Bird, Siegfried Marcus, Ludvig Nobel, Nikolai Ge, Othniel Charles Marsh, and Paul Durand-Ruel. After him are George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Anna Leonowens, Ankō Itosu, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Princess Helena of Nassau, and Daniele Comboni. Among people deceased in 1896, Maurice de Hirsch ranks 28. Before him are Prince Henry of Battenberg, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., John Langdon Down, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Ichiyō Higuchi, and Ante Starčević. After him are Heinrich von Treitschke, Ernst Engel, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Félix Tisserand, Ernst Curtius, and Adalbert Krueger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maurice de Hirsch ranks 1,927 out of 7,253. Before him are Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (1527), Ralf Hütter (1946), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811), Johannes Oecolampadius (1482), and Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (1619). After him are Fritz Thyssen (1873), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Rainer Bonhof (1952), Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (1614), Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), and Edmund Veesenmayer (1904).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Maurice de Hirsch ranks 22. Before him are Karl Albrecht (1920), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Peter Thiel (1967), and Melitta Bentz (1873). After him are John Jacob Astor (1763), Axel Springer (1912), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Carl Laemmle (1867), Karl Baedeker (1801), and Hans Wilsdorf (1881).

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