The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Beit, Alfred
(bt) (KEY) , 1853–1906, South African financier, b. Hamburg. He went to South Africa in 1875, grew rich from the development of diamond mines, and was a colleague and lieutenant of Cecil Rhodes in Rhodesia. A philanthropist, he founded a chair for colonial history at Oxford Univ. and made many gifts for educational purposes in London, Hamburg, and South Africa.
t) (KEY) , 1853–1906, South African financier, b. Hamburg. He went to South Africa in 1875, grew rich from the development of diamond mines, and was a colleague and lieutenant of Cecil Rhodes in Rhodesia. A philanthropist, he founded a chair for colonial history at Oxford Univ. and made many gifts for educational purposes in London, Hamburg, and South Africa.
