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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Maximilian Michaelis (11 May 1852 Eisfeld, Germany - 26 January 1932, Zurich) was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts. Michaelis received his early schooling in Nuremberg where he is said to have developed his love of old masters. His first arrival in South Africa dates back to 1876 when he landed at Port Elizabeth. Two years later he had moved to Kimberley, drawn by the 1871 discovery of diamonds and the prospect of wealth. Here he became a close business associate of Julius Wernher and Alfred Beit and got to know Hermann Eckstein and J.B. Taylor - friendships that were to last a lifetime. He was co-opted by Wernher to deal in diamonds for Porges and Wernher, and in the 1880s restructured the Cape Diamond Company. He was a founding partner of Wernher, Beit & Co. Within some years he had become manager of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation in Johannesburg. From 1896 he worked at the Corporation's offices in London and remained there until 1919, when he returned to South Africa. In England he led an extremely secluded life on the country estate, Tandridge Court in Surrey.

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