Category

18th-century German businesspeople

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild

German banker (1744–1812)

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

German Jewish banker and court Jew in Württemberg

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

German-born British financier (1777–1836)

Johann Maria Farina

Italian perfumer and inventor (1685–1766)

Glückel of Hameln

German writer and businesswoman

Nannette Streicher

German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer

Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

Austrian banker and businessman (1774-1855)

theatre director

German inventor

Israel Jacobson

German-Jewish philanthropist and communal organiser (1768–1828)

German banker (1723-1799)

Amschel Moses Rothschild

German Jewish money changer

Karoline Kaulla

German court Jew

Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber

German hispanist

Marianne Ehrmann

Swiss & German novelist and publicist, editor

Christoph Friedrich Bretzner

Merchant and writer of comedies

Issachar Berend Lehmann

German-Jewish banker, Court Jew in Hanover

Helene Amalie Krupp

German industrialist

Gerhard von Hosstrup

Johann Hinrich Gossler

Hamburg merchant and banker (1738–1790)

Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven

German composer, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven (1774-1815)

Christopher Sower

German-American printer and publisher

Louisa Catharina Harkort

German entrepreneur (1718-1795)

Johann Gottlob Nathusius

German industrialist (1760-1835)

Johann Berenberg

Hamburg merchant banker (1718-1772)

Swedish businessman

German businessman (1730-1784)

German businessperson

Cornelius Berenberg

Hamburg merchant

Elisabeth Berenberg

Johann Gottfried Brügelmann

German entrepreneur

Esther Liebmann

German-Jewish financier, Court Jew

Johann Jakob Bethmann

Banker and ship owner

Karl Friedrich Cerf

German theatre producer

J. Henry Schroder

German politician (1784-1883)

Wilhelm Mülhens

German perfumer

Nicholas Magens

Magens, Nicholas (1697?–1764), merchant and author

german-born Hungarian locksmith master and factory owner (c. 1730-1779)