Carl Mayer von Rothschild is remembered in business for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Carl Mayer von Rothschild as German-Italian banker.
Carl Mayer von Rothschild was born at Frankfurt in 1788. His recorded nationality is Free City of Frankfurt.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives his occupations as banker.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
Working from Free City of Frankfurt shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Carl Mayer von Rothschild died in 1855 at the age of 67. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Worked as banker
