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Nationality
  
Danish

Name
  
Calmer Hambro

Children
  
Spouse(s)
  
Thobe Levi

Religion
  
Judaism


Full Name
  
Calmer Joachim Levy

Died
  
1806Copenhagen, Denmark

Relatives
  
Isach Joseph Levi (uncle & father-in-law)Carl Joachim Hambro (grandson)

Calmer Hambro (1747-1806) was a Danish merchant and banker.

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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.

He grew up Hamburg, Germany, which is considered to be his hometown. He changed his name to Hambro upon moving to Copenhagen in 1778. Although he wanted to be named Hamburg, the registrar misspelt his name, thus renaming him Calmer Hambro.

Career

Hambro took over his father-in-law's business in Copenhagen in 1779. He later became a banker to the King of Denmark.

Personal life

Hambro married a cousin, Thobe Levi, the daughter of Isach Joseph Levi, in Copenhagen in 1778. They were Jewish. They had a son, Joseph Hambro.

Death

He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Legacy

His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro, moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.

References

Calmer Hambro Wikipedia


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