Ignacio Salomón Bauer (1828 – 1895) was a Hungarian-born Spanish banker of

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descent. He was an agent of

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banking house in

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, taking over from

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in 1853. In a marriage arranged by

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, he married Ida Morpurgo, daughter of Rothschild's agent in Triest, and later bought the Palacio Bauer as family residence. The character of Daniel Morton in

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' ''Gloria'' (1877) was based on Bauer.

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