Herman (Heiman) Jacob Bing (16 March 1776 - 10 March 1844) was a Jewish-Danish educator and bookseller. He was a co-founder of Copenhagen's first Jewish school (Bing & Kalich's Institute) in 1803 and established a book shop in 1820 which was later continued by his sons

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and Jacob Herman Bing under the name H. J. Bing & Søn. His sons were also co-founders of the

Bing & Grøndahl Bing & Grøndahl was a Danish porcelain manufacturer founded in 1853 by the sculptor Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl and merchant brothers Meyer Hermann Bing and Jacob Herman Bing. The trademark backstamp for Bing & Grøndahl (B&G) porcelains is the t ...

porcelain factory while his grandson Harald Bing was a co-founder of the newspaper Politiken.

Early life and education

Bing was born in

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, the son of Jacob Bing (died 1780) and Jitle Oppenheim (died 1793). His mother's second marriage was to Moses Ruben Renner in

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in April 1787.

Career

Bing came to

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in 1799 where he initially worked as

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and later as a tutor in

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. In 1803, he and his brother-in-law L. J. Kalisch founded a Jewish school. Approximately 400 students had graduated from the school by 1818. It played an important role in the emancipation of the Jewish community but was ultimately unable to support two families. On 10 September 1819, Bing was granted a royal license to open a store with "all materials used for writing and drawing as well as maps and school books". The shop was initially located at the corner of

Pilestræde Pilestræde ( lit. English: Willow Alley) is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a side street to the pedestrianized shopping street Strøget and commonly associated with the newspaper publishing house Berlingske Media, which has its hea ...

and

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but later relocated to

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36. Bing's two sons joined the firm and the store developed into one of the leading bookshops in the city. In 1837, Bing was one of the nine founders of the Danish Booksellers' Association. In 1839, he ceded the bookshop to his two sons, Meyer Herman Bing and Jacob Herman Bing (1811–96). H. J. B. & Søn developed into the leading bookshop in the city under the leadership of Jacob Herman Bing and was from 1863 continued by Meyer Herman Bing's son, Jacob Martin Bing (1833–1903), initially in a partnership with Benny Henriques (1829–1912) but from 1866 alone. It closed in 1885.

Personal life

Bing married Sara Meyer, (1776-1848), a daughter of merchant Meyer Isaac (1741–1800) and Sara Meyer Hausen (1755–1824), on 12 June 1805. He was a member of the Jewish congregation's board of representatives and director of the Jewish girls' school Carolineskolen. He died on 10 March 1844 and is buried in the Jewish Northern Cemetery (grave no. G-6-10) in Copenhagen.

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External links

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abiyt Herman Jacob Bing (in Danish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bing, Herman Jacob 1776 births 1844 deaths 19th-century Danish businesspeople Danish booksellers Dutch emigrants to Denmark Businesspeople from Amsterdam

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Career

Personal life

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