Ephrussi family
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. The family were elevated to the nobility by the Habsburg emperor. The family controlled large-scale oil resources in the Crimea and the Caucasus. They had made their initial fortune controlling grain distribution in the Ukraine. From 1856, members of the family established banking houses in Vienna
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, Paris
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. During the 19th century, the family possessed vast wealth, owning many castles, palaces, and estates in Europe. The family were known for their connoisseurship, intellectual interests, and their huge collections of art.
The family's bank and properties were seized by the Nazis after the March 1938 German annexation of Austria
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Notable members of the Ephrussi include:
- Béatrice de Rothschild-EphrussiBéatrice Ephrussi de RothschildCharlotte Béatrice de Rothschild was a French socialite, art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.- Biography :...
(1864-1934) - part of the Rothschild familyRothschild familyThe Rothschild family , known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a Jewish-German family that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century... - Boris EphrussiBoris EphrussiBoris Ephrussi , Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo-French geneticist from the Ephrussi family.His father, Samuil Osipovich Ephrussi, was a chemical engineer; his grandfather, Joseph Ephrusi , was the founder of a banking dynasty in Kishinev. He published two papers in...
(1901-1979), influential French geneticistGeneticsGenetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
(his wife, Harriet Ephrussi-Taylor, 1918-1968, was also a geneticist and crystallographer) - Charles EphrussiCharles EphrussiCharles Ephrussi was a Russian critic, art historian, and art collector. He also was a part-owner and then editor as well as a contributor to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, the most important art historical periodical in France...
(1849-1905), art historian, proprietor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", an inspiration for Charles Swann in Marcel ProustMarcel ProustValentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...
's À la recherche du temps perdu - Ignaz von Ephrussi (1829-1899), Austrian banker
- Jules Ephrussi (1846-1915), French banker
- Marie Juliette Ephrussi, Princesse de Faucigny-Lucinge, (born 1880) - Princess de Faucigny-Lucinge
- Maurice EphrussiMaurice EphrussiMaurice Ephrussi was a French banker who also bred and raced Thoroughbreds.A member of the Ephrussi family, Maurice Ephrussi was born in the free port of Odessa where his father founded the Ephrussi Bank and was involved in the business of exporting wheat...
(1849-1916), French banker - Michel EphrussiMichel EphrussiMichel Ephrussi was a Russian-born French banker who also bred and raced Thoroughbreds.A member of the Russian-Jewish Ephrussi family, Michel was born in the free port of Odessa where his father founded the Ephrussi Bank and was involved in the exporting of wheat...
(1845-1914), French banker - Viktor von Ephrussi (1860-1945), Austrian banker
- Fanny ReinachThéodore ReinachThéodore Reinach was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician....
Properties included:
- Palais EphrussiPalais EphrussiPalais Ephrussi is a former Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna. It was built for the Ephrussi family of financiers by Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, the architect of the Austrian Parliament Building. It is located opposite St...
is a Ringstraßenpalais - ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
. - Villa EphrussiVilla Ephrussi de RothschildVilla Ephrussi de Rothschild is a French seaside palazzo constructed between 1905 and 1912 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild in the Goût Rothschild. It was designed by the Belgian architect Aaron Messiah...
- Saint-Jean-Cap-FerratSaint-Jean-Cap-FerratSaint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat , Italian: San Giovanni Capo Ferrato, is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.It is located on a peninsula next to Beaulieu-sur-Mer and to Villefranche-sur-Mer and extends out to Cap Ferrat...
on the Côte d'AzurFrench RivieraThe Côte d'Azur, pronounced , often known in English as the French Riviera , is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco... - Hôtel de Breteuil, 12 Avenue FochAvenue FochAvenue Foch is a street in Paris, France, named after Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It was previously named Avenue du Bois de Boulogne. It is one of the most prestigious streets in Paris, and one of the most expensive addresses in the world, home to many grand palaces, including ones belonging to the...
, Paris - Hôtel Ephrussi, Rue de Monceau, Paris
- Hôtel 11, Avenue d'IénaAvenue d'IénaThe Avenue d'Iéna is a tree-lined avenue in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris, running from the Trocadéro to the Place de l'Étoile. Passing through Place d'Iéna, Place de l'Amiral de Grasse, Place de l'Uruguay and Place Richard de Coudenhove Kalergi on the way...
, Paris - Villa KerylosVilla KerylosVilla Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer was built in the early 1900s by Theodore Reinach, the famous French archaeologist and his wife Fanny Kann, a daughter of Maximilien Kann and Betty Ephrussi, of the Ephrussi family. The architect was Emmanuel Pontremoli. A Greek word, "Kerylos" means Halcyon or...
on the Côte d'AzurFrench RivieraThe Côte d'Azur, pronounced , often known in English as the French Riviera , is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco...
Other Ephrussi
- Boris Ephrusi (1865, Kishinev - 1897, San RemoSan RemoSan Remo may refer to places:* Sanremo, an Italian city* San Remo, New South Wales, a town in New South Wales, Australia* San Remo, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia* San Remo, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah, Australia...
) — Russian economist and journalist, member of the Russkoye BogatstvoRusskoye BogatstvoRusskoye Bogatstvo was a monthly magazine published in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1876 to mid-1918. In the early 1890s, it was an organ of the liberal Narodniks. Beginning in 1906, it became an organ of the Popular Socialists....
monthly magazine, brother of Perla Ephrussi and Zinaida Michnik (Ephrussi). - Perla Ephrussi (also Paula and Polina Ephrussi, 1876, Kishinev - 1942, PyatigorskPyatigorskPyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River, about from Mineralnye Vody. Since January 19, 2010 it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia...
) — Russian educational psychologist. - Zinaida Michnik (Ephrussi) (1878, Kishinev - 1942, PyatigorskPyatigorskPyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River, about from Mineralnye Vody. Since January 19, 2010 it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia...
) — Soviet pediatric researcher. - Yakov Ephrussi — Soviet engineer, innovator in the field of television technology, nephew of Zinaida Ephrussi and Perla Ephrussi.