Rózsika Rothschild

Rózsika Rothschild, portrayed by Philip Alexius de László (1914)

Rózsika Rothschild (* 1870 as Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein in Nagyvárad / Austria-Hungary , today Oradea / Romania ; † June 30, 1940 London ) was a tennis player. She was the wife of bankers and entomologist Charles Rothschild ( 1877 - 1923 ).

Life

Rózsika Rothschild grew up as one of seven children of the officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, Alfred Edler von Wertheimstein; the Wertheimstein family was the first Jewish family in Europe to be raised to the nobility without first converting to Christianity . Rózsika, who grew up multilingual, was considered politically interested. At the turn of the century she was a well-known tennis player and national Hungarian champion. However, tennis was practiced almost exclusively by the nobility at the time.

After her wedding in Vienna on February 6, 1907, to Charles Rothschild, son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild from the English branch of the Rothschild banking family , whom she met on a butterfly excursion in the Carpathian Mountains (other data suggest this that it was a tennis court in Carlsbad ), the couple lived alternately on their country estate in Tring ( Hertfordshire ) and in London . After the early death of her husband, who died by suicide in 1923 after contracting encephalitis , she raised her four children alone. She spent her last years in London.

progeny

• Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908-2005), zoologist
• Elizabeth Charlotte Rothschild (1909–1988), called Liberty
• Victor Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild (1910–1990), biologist , cricketer and Labor MP
• Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild (1913–1988), called Nica , after her marriage Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter , jazz patron

Web links

Commons : Rózsika Rothschild  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rózsika von Wertheimstein
• Lőwy Dániel, Adalékok Rotschild Rózsika, Hamupipőke-történetéhez. (Short biography in Hungarian)