Rózsika Rothschild
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Rózsika Rothschild (born Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein; Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, 15 October 1870 – London, 30 June 1940) was a tennis player and the wife of the banker and entomologist Charles Rothschild.[1]
Life
She was born as Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania). She grew up as one of seven children of an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, Alfred Edler von Wertheimstein. The Wertheimstein family was the one of the first Jewish families in Europe to be ennobled without having previously converted to Christianity. The multi-lingual Rózsika was regarded as very interested in politics. Around the turn of the century she was a very well known tennis player and national Hungarian champion. However, tennis was then almost exclusively operated by the nobility. [2]
She was married in Vienna on 6 February 1907 to Charles Rothschild, son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild from the English branch of the Rothschild family, whom she had met during a butterfly excursion in the Carpathians (other sources indicate that it was a tennis court in Karlsbad). The couple lived on his estate in Tring, Hertfordshire. After the early death of her husband in 1923, she raised her four children alone.
See also
- Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), zoologist
- Victor Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild (1910–1990), biologist, cricket player and Labour Party member
- Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild (1913–1988), named Nica, and after her marriage Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patron
References
- ^ "February 2016: Portrait of Rozsika Rothschild, c.1910". The Rothschild Archives. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Ruzsika (Rózsika) Edle Rothschild".