Ignace von Ephrussi

Ignace von Ephrussi
Ignace von Ephrussi in 1871
Born	1829 Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	1899 Vienna, Austria
Residence	Palais Ephrussi, Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Banker
Title	Baron
Spouse(s)	Emily Porges
Children	2 sons (including Viktor von Ephrussi), 1 daughter
Parent(s)	Charles Joachim Ephrussi Belle Levensohn
Relatives	Michel Ephrussi (half-brother) Maurice Ephrussi (half-brother) Edmund de Waal (great-great-grandson)

Baron Ignace von Ephrussi (1829–1899) was a Russian-born Austrian banker and diplomat. He was the head of Ephrussi & Co. in Vienna, Austria.

Ignace von Ephrussi was born in 1829 in Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His father was Charles Joachim Ephrussi and his mother, Belle Levensohn. He had a brother, Leon Ephrussi. Their mother died in 1841. After his father married his second wife, Henriette Halperson. He had two half-brothers, Michel Ephrussi and Maurice Ephrussi, and two half-sisters, Therese (who married Leon Fould) and Marie (who married Guy de Percin).

Ephrussi was the head of Ephrussi & Co., his family bank, in Vienna, Austria. He was "the second-richest banker in Vienna."

Ephurris was ennobled by the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph I, and he held the title of Baron. He served as Honorary Consul to the King of Sweden and Norway. He was a Knight of the Order of St. Olav.

Ephrussi married Emily Porges. They had two sons and a daughter. They resided at the Palais Ephrussi, built for them and completed in 1869.

Ephrussi died in 1899 in Vienna, Austria. His great-great-grandson, Edmund de Waal, is a British ceramicist and the author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes, a 2010 memoir about his family, including Ignace.