Beit, Alfred, 1853-1906
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Name (Hebrew)
ביט, אלפרד, 1853-1906
Name (Latin)
Beit, Alfred, 1853-1906
Other forms of name
בייט, אלפרד, 1853-1906
Date of birth
1853
Date of death
1906
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Important European furniture, sculpture, and carpets, 2006:p. 226 (Alfred Beit; b.1853, d.1906; entrepreneur of the South African mining industry; art collector; born in Hamburg, Germany)
- Dict. of national biography online WWW home page, Dec. 13, 2006:(Beit, Alfred; naturalized British subject)
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Wikipedia description:
Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was an Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group, which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.
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