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About Franz Moïse Philippson
from the online Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12105-philippson#anchor3
Banker and philanthropist; born at Magdeburg, March 12, 1851; son of Ludwig Philippson. He was educated in Brussels, where he founded a banking-house in 1871, which for a quarter of a century has taken part in most of the municipal loans, conversions, and commercial enterprises in Belgium, and in many in Italy, Brazil, and other countries. Philippson has likewise written frequently on financial topics. In 1884 he was elected president of the Jewish community of Brussels, and is also a member of the Consistoire Israélite de Belgique, and vice-president of the Jewish Colonization Association.
see also The Philippsons, A German Jewish Family 1775-1933 an offprint from Year Book VII of the Leo Baeck Institute, London 1962
from the Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_...
"FRANZ MOSES PHILIPPSON (1851–1929), the seventh child of Ludwig, was a Belgian banker, financier, and communal leader. Born in Magdeburg, he was sent to Brussels in 1865 to work as a clerk in the *Errera banking house. In 1871, he established his own bank in Belgium and directed it for over 50 years until his death. Involved from the beginning in the Belgian colonization of Africa, he was an administrator of the Belgian Congo railways in 1889, becoming its president in 1924, and was founder of the Banque du Congo Belge (1909) and its vice president from 1911 to 1919. Philippson was president of the Brussels Jewish community and a leader of Belgian Jewry, from 1918 as president of the *Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique. He represented the Brussels community on the administrative council of the *Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) from 1896, becoming vice president in 1901 and president in 1919. He made an important contribution to Jewish colonization efforts in Argentina and Brazil. He died in 1929 in Paris"
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Franz Moïse Philippson's Timeline
| 1851 |
1851
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Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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| 1877 |
June 12, 1877
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Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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| 1880 |
May 13, 1880
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Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
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| 1881 |
September 24, 1881
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Brussels, Belgium
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| 1888 |
September 9, 1888
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Belgium
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| 1929 |
1929
Age 78
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Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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