Hirsch
MAURICE, BARON DE, an Austrian Jewish philanthropist and financier. He inherited a considerable fortune from his father in 1869 and greatly increased this by marriage. He also made enormous sums from building railways in Rumania and Turkey. His fortune was estimated at $200,000,000.
During his life he gave away about $100,000,000, chiefly for the alleviation of conditions among the Jews. A large part of these sums was given to the Jewish Colonization Association for the He also endowed schools in Galicia and he gave $2,500,000 to establish a fund in New York for the education and nian Jews. His wife on her death in Baron de Hirsch died in 1896. na.