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Austrian banker (1845–1918) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guido Elbogen (1845–1918) was an Austrian banker and mathematician who became President of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.
He was born into a Jewish family on 27 December 1845 in Jungbunzlau (now Mladá Boleslav) in Bohemia.[note 1] Of the children of Rabbi Isak Elbogen (1812–1883) and his wife Friederike (née Pokorny; 1825–1906) he was the only one to survive beyond infancy.
After studying at the Academy of Commerce in Prague, Elbogen entered the banking business at the Ladenburg Bank in London, before moving to Paris where he joined Oppenheim, Alberti and Co,[1] working to Antoine Schwabacher whose daughter Rosalie he married in 1868. In 1874 a lampooning cartoon of him appeared on the front cover of an issue of the French satirical newspaper Comic-Finance, which also included a biographical piece by the newspaper's editor Ernest Schrameck, writing under the pen name "Sergines".[1][2] Elbogen made at least 15 business trips to Spain, representing the interests of French banks, including the Bank of Paris,[1] successfully negotiating with the Spanish authorities for the repayment of outstanding bank loans.
In 1877 Elbogen and his family moved from Paris to Vienna, where he took up the post of President of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.[3][4][5]
In 1865, Elbogen submitted a proposal for a lottery savings bank, an idea that was taken up in Italy in 1880 and debated in the Italian Parliament, but was not approved.[6][7]
In 1868, in Paris, he married Rosalie (Alie) (née Schwabacher; 1850, Paris – 1940, Sartrouville, Île-de-France),[8] daughter of banker Antoine Schwabacher and his wife Helene, née Hendle.
Elbogen and his family moved to Vienna when he joined the Anglo-Austrian Bank; he also bought a country estate, Schloss Thalheim, in Lower Austria.[note 2][9]
They had three daughters and a son:
Elbogen died on 10 December 1918 at Schloss Thalheim, aged 72. He is buried at Vienna Central Cemetery.
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