Jacob Holm (bishop)
Jacob Holm may refer to: * Jacob Holm (industrialist) (1770–1845), Danish industrialist, ship owner and merchant * Jacob Holm (handballer) Jacob Tandrup Holm (born 5 September 1995) is a Danish handball player who plays for Paris Saint-Germain and the national team. He represented Denmark at the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship. He debuted for the national team in 2016 in a ...

Jacob Holm (industrialist)
Jacob Holm (29 September 1770 – 3 August 1845) was a Danish industrialist, ship owner and merchant. He founded the company Jacob Holm & Sønner, which still exists today. Early life Jacob Holm was born at Skafterup in the south of Zealand in 1770 as the youngest of four brothers. He grew up in poverty with his mother, after his father, who was a school master, died when he was just four years old. After serving his apprenticeship in Næstved, he moved to Copenhagen in 1790 where he worked for one of his brothers. Grocer and industrialist In 1794, on Christmas Day, he opened a grocer's store in Torvegade at Christianshavn, servicing the fast-growing population of Amager, and soon also engaged in a profitable trade with the Danish provinces. After some years in business he saw the advantages in having his own production of some of the goods he sold. In 1805 he constructed an oil mill at Christianshavn and from 1808 to 1811 acquired several smaller lots along Amager Road wh ...
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