While the Rockefellers are considered old money in the U.S., the Rothschild fortune goes back many more generations in Europe. Patriarch Mayer Amschel Rothschild had such a tremendous impact on ...

Forbes.com readers and editors rank Meyer Amschel Rothschild as the seventh most influential businessman of all time. (Read more to find out how Forbes.com ranked them.) Meyer Amschel Rothschild ...

Today, the Rothschild name is a virtual synonym for wealth and societal influence. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) was born into modest circumstances in Frankfurt's Jewish quarter.

LONDON — More than 200 years ago a German banker, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, sent his five sons to different European cities to guarantee the survival of what became one of the most prominent ...