Career
Louis-Raphaël, the oldest, forced to abandon his studies at age 14 and began working for, Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt (1772–1843), who owned a bank in Frankfurt. In 1820 Louis-Raphael left Frankfurt and moved to Amsterdam, at the time a major financial center, to create a bank in his name. In 1822 Louis-Raphael married Amélie Goldschimidt (1804–1887), daughter of Hayum-Salomon Goldschmidt, whom he knew from an early age.
They had two sons Raphaël-Louis Bischoffsheim and Henri Louis Bischoffsheim.
The relations between the two families, already very strong, intensified further. The lives of the two families were closely linked, and in 1846 Louis-Raphael Goldschmidt opened a bank in London, a company that quickly went into the hands of the second son of Louis-Raphael, Henry-Louis (1823–1908).
By that time, his father was already planning to open a new company in Paris (August 30, 1848) the "Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt et Cie" with a capital of 750,000 francs. In 1850 the "Bank Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt et Cie" officially opened its offices on Rue de la Chaussee d"Antin, 26 in Paris.
In those years he met Alphonse Pinard et Eduard Henstch, responsible for the "Comptoir d"escompte de Paris" with whom he worked in the following years.
In those years Louis-Raphaël assisted Pinard, Hentsch et Paulin Talabot in the creation of a new bank deposits in Paris, thus becoming one of the founders of the Societe Generale. Bischoffsheim died November 14, 1873 in Paris.