Obituaries

Monday, March 10, 2008; Page B06

Mr. Rothschild was born in Duedelsheim, Germany, and as a 12-year-old immigrated with his family to the United States just three weeks before Kristallnacht, a Nazi-backed pogrom against Jews in Germany, in November 1938.

The family settled in Boston, and Mr. Rothschild graduated from Harvard University with bachelor's and master's degrees in history. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951 and, fluent in German, worked as an intelligence officer in Germany and the United States. He retired in 1968.

A resident of the Potomac area since 1977, he was a member of Temple Beth Ami in Rockville. He was an omnivorous reader; his fingers were often blackened by his daily habit of reading newspapers, his family said.

Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Elyse Stern Rothschild of Rockville; three children, Andrea Beth Rothschild of Los Angeles, Eric Jonathan Rothschild of Philadelphia and David Mark Rothschild of Washington; and four grandchildren.

-- Patricia Sullivan

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