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Joseph Hambro (4 November 1780 – 3 October 1848) was a Danish merchant, banker and political advisor.
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In circa. 1830, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in
He was married to Marianne von Halle (1786–1838), the daughter of Wulf Levin von Halle, a merchant from Copenhagen. They had a son, Carl Joachim Hambro, who moved to London, England, where he founded the
Joseph Hambro
1780 births 1840 deaths 18th-century Danish Jews 19th-century Danish Jews 19th-century Danish businesspeople Businesspeople from Copenhagen Danish bankers Danish merchants
Early life
Joseph Hambro was born in 1780 inCopenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
, Denmark.Andrew St George, 'Hambro, Baron Carl Joachim (1807–1877)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 6 May 2015
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Calmer Hambro
Calmer Hambro (1747-1806) was a Danish merchant and banker.
Early life
Calmer Hambro was born as Calmer Joachim Levy in 1747 in Rendsburg, a town of Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark, later acquired by Prussia in the Second Schleswig War of 1864.Andr ...
, was a Jewish silk and textile merchant, who was born in Rendsburg
Rendsburg ( da, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'', nds, Rendsborg, also ''Rensborg'') is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) of Rendsburg-Ecke ...
. At the age of 17, Hambro came to Hamburg
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where he received his education at Fürst, Haller & Co.
Career
Hambro was a merchant and banker. In 1800, he joined his father's bank and renamed it C. J. Hambro & Son. Under his leadership, the bank gave loans to the Danish government from 1821 to 1827.
In circa. 1830, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn
Christianshavn (literally, "ingChristian's Harbour") is a neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of the Indre By District, it is located on several artificial islands between the islands of Zealand and Amager and separated from the rest of th ...
, from then on known as Hambros Plads, establishing both a rice mill with Denmark's first steam engine, the country's first canned food factory and a bakery at the site.
Hambro became an advisor to Johan Sigismund von Møsting
Johan Sigismund von Mösting (2 November 1759 – 16 September 1843) was a Danish banker and finance minister. He was a key figure in the foundation of Bank of Denmark in 1818. His name is today also associated with Møstings Hus ("Møsting's Ho ...
, who served as the Danish Minister of Finance.
Personal life
He was married to Marianne von Halle (1786–1838), the daughter of Wulf Levin von Halle, a merchant from Copenhagen. They had a son, Carl Joachim Hambro, who moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank
Hambros Bank was a British bank based in London. The Hambros bank was a specialist in Anglo-Scandinavian business with expertise in trade finance and investment banking, and was the sole banker to the Scandinavian kingdoms for many years. The Bank ...
in 1839.
He died in 1848 in London, where he had moved earlier that year.
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Joseph Hambro
1780 births 1840 deaths 18th-century Danish Jews 19th-century Danish Jews 19th-century Danish businesspeople Businesspeople from Copenhagen Danish bankers Danish merchants
Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
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