Anselm von Rothschild

Anselm Salomon von Rothschild
Anselm von Rothschild
Born	January 29, 1803 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died	July 27, 1874 Vienna, Austria
Residence	Vienna
Occupation	Banker, philanthropist, member of Imperial Council (Austria)
Known for	Founder of: Creditanstalt, Rothschild Hospital
Board member of	S M von Rothschild, Creditanstalt, Austrian Southern Railway
Spouse(s)	Charlotte Nathan Rothschild
Parent(s)	Salomon Mayer von Rothschild & Caroline Stern

Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron (January 29, 1803 – July 27, 1874) was an Austrian banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family.

He was born in the Imperial City of Frankfurt, the son of Freiherr Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855), ancestor of the family's Austrian branch, and his wife Caroline Stern (1782–1854). He had a younger sister Betty (1805–1874), who married her French uncle James Mayer de Rothschild.

According to the testament left by progenitor Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the children of the Rothschild family were obliged to enter into matrimony with their first and second cousins. Anselm Salomon did so in 1826 by marrying Charlotte Nathan Rothschild (1807–1859), daughter of his uncle Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836) from the London branch of the family; together they had eight children:

In 1820 Anselm Salomon's father Salomon Mayer had established a bank company at Vienna, financing the building of the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway in the 1830s. He had been a confidant of Chancellor Prince Klemens von Metternich and also a discreet lender of the Bohemian and Hungarian nobility. Upon his death in 1855, his son and heir Anselm created the k.k. privilegierte Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe, which evolved to the largest bank of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.