Classical art historian and archaeologist; co-founder of the École du Louvre; author of a early survey of art history translated into English. Reinach was the middle son of Hermann Reinach and his wife, Julie Budding. The elder Reinach, an extremely wealthy Jewish banker from Frankfurt am Main, had immigrated to France in the 1840s. The Reinachs lived in a large villa in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris suburbs) where Salomon was privately tutored.