Sigmund von Kornfeld belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.
The record lists Sigmund von Kornfeld as Hungarian banker, economist (1852-1909).
Sigmund von Kornfeld was born at Golčův Jeníkov in 1852. His recorded nationality is Hungary.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as industrialist, banker and economist.
Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.
That the business was built from Hungary shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Sigmund von Kornfeld died in 1909, aged 57. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
