Today, the Rothschild name is a virtual synonym for wealth and societal influence. Investopedia / Sabrina Jiang Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) was born into modest circumstances in ...

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the first of the family to open a bank, was honored by Forbes as the seventh most influential businessman of all time and the inventor of modern banking who introduced ...