Raphael Bischoffsheim

Raphael Bischoffsheim was founder of prominent banking family with representatives in Belgium, Britain, and France. Raphael was born in Bischoffsheim on the Tauber and settled as a young man in Mainz, where he became a prominent merchant and president of the Jewish community. His son Louis Raphael established banks in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, and together with the Goldschmidt family a London branch known as Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt.