Calmer Hambro | |
|---|---|
| Born | Calmer Joachim Levy 1747 |
| Died | 1806 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Spouse | Thobe Levi |
| Children | Joseph Hambro Carl Simon Hambro, Eduard Isaac Hambro, Sophie Hambro. |
| Relatives | Isach Joseph Levi (uncle & father-in-law) Carl Joachim Hambro (grandson) |
Calmer Hambro (1747-1806) was a Danish merchant and banker.
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.[1]
He grew up Hamburg, Germany, which is considered to be his hometown.[2][3] He changed his surname to Hambro upon moving to Copenhagen in 1778.[2][3] Although he wanted to be named Hamburg, the registrar misspelt his name, thus renaming him Calmer Hambro.[2][3]
Hambro took over his father-in-law's business in Copenhagen in 1779.[4] In the Danish census 1801, he was registered living as a handelsman (merchant) in the house Store Købmagergade No. 96 in the Frimands Kvarter neighbourhood, together with his wife and his two sons.[5] He later became a banker to the King of Denmark.[3]
Hambro married a cousin, Thobe (Dorothea) Levy (1756-1820), the daughter of Isach Joseph Levi, in Copenhagen in 1778.[1][2][3] They had three sons and one daughter, the merchant and banker Joseph Hambro (1780-1848)[4][6] and his younger twin brothers Carl Simon and Eduard Isaac (born in 1782), the latter moved to Bergen establishing himself as a merchant, and sister Hanne Sophie.[7][circular reference][5]
He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro (180-1877) moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.[2][8][9]