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Arpad Plesch

Hungarian: Plesch Árpád
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Death: December 16, 1974 (85)
London, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of Lájos (Ludwig) Ludwig Henrik Plesch and Honora Plesch
Husband of Etti Plesch
Ex-husband of Leonie Ulam and Marysia Harcourt-Smith
Brother of Melani Strelinger (Plesch); Dr. med. János (Johann) Oscar Plesch; Mirza Katscher - György; Mátyás Gabriel Plesch and Dr. Mihaly Mathias Plesch
Half brother of Julius Plesch

Occupation: Bankier, Finanzier, Jurist
Managed by: Sándor Feldmájer
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About Arpad Plesch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Plesch

Árpád Plesch (1889-1974) was an international Jewish financier,[1] Banker and Hungarian lawyer. He owned a celebrated collection of rare botanical books and esoteric pornography. His botanical collection has been included in Douglas Cooper's Great Private Collections. Plesch was mentor[2] to the owner of the largest fortune in Italy, Giovanni Agnelli (1866-1945), the president of Fiat. He married three times,[3] to : Léonie Caro Ulam Marysia Ulam Krauss Harcourt-Smith, daughter of the previous Contessa Maria von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, called Etti Plesch, his last wife and sole heir to his immense fortune. Marysia Ulam was the aunt of the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam.[4] In his memoire, Adventures of a mathematician, Ulam wrote: 'My uncle Michael's wife happened to live in Paris at the time and she kindly offered to receive me and to send to my modest hotel her chauffered limousine to take me sightseeing. I was so embarrassed at the thought of being seen arriving in a Rolls-Royce or a Duesenberg at the Louvre or some other museum, it felt so incongruous, that I declined her offer' The Plesches lived between their apartment on the Avenue Foch in Paris and their Villa Leonina at Beaulieu-sur-Mer, in the South of France (where they built the superb Leonina botanical garden). Plesch died in 1974 in Paris. Publications[edit] Botanique , 1954 Essais d'acclimatation de plantes tropicales en France, 1962 Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch, 1973



birth Mother b. Ujpest LDS 642970, Vol. 19

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Arpad Plesch's Timeline

1889
March 25, 1889
Budapest, Hungary
1974
December 16, 1974
Age 85
London, United Kingdom