Alexandrine de Rothschild
Baronne Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (16 March 1884 – 15 March 1965) was an art collector and member of the Rothschild family.
Alexandrine de Rothschild
15 March 1965 (aged 80)
French
Early life[edit]
Born Alexandrine Miriam Caroline de Rothschild in Paris, on March 16, 1884, she was the youngest child and only daughter of Edmond James de Rothschild and Adelheid von Rothschild.
Personal life[edit]
Relatives described Alexandrine as "similar to her cousin Alice: both were highly intelligent, authoritarian and inclined to appear plain.[1]
Alexandrine "studied medicine, later specializing in dietetics" and had an avid love of gardening.
On December 15, 1910, Alexandrine married her cousin Albert Max Goldschmidt, the couple later divorced.
Later life and death[edit]
In order to avoid further Nazi persecution Alexandrine fled to Switzerland. She resided at St. Moritz at the time of her death. Alexandrine was 80 when she died on March 15, 1965, in Baden, Switzerland. She posthumously funded the Beni Israel Trust to Israel.[1]