Joseph Hambro

Joseph Hambro was born in 1780 in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] His father, Calmer Hambro, was a Jewish silk and textile merchant, who was born in Rendsburg.[1] At the age of 17, Hambro came to Hamburg where he received his education at Fürst, Haller & Co.

Hambro was a merchant and banker.[1] In 1800, he joined his father's bank and renamed it C. J. Hambro & Son.[1] Under his leadership, the bank gave loans to the Danish government from 1821 to 1827.[1]

Hambros Plads in Christianshavn, Copenhagen

In circa. 1830, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn, 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.[2]

Hambro became an advisor to Johan Sigismund von Møsting, who served as the Danish Minister of Finance.[1]

[[File:Bust of J. Hambro by H. W. Bissen.jpg|thumb|160px|Bust of Joseph Hambro by [[Herman Wilhelm Bissen[H. W. Bissen]], 1853]]

He was married to Marianne von Halle (1786–1838), the daughter of Wulf Levin von Halle, a merchant from Copenhagen.[1] They had a son, Carl Joachim Hambro, who moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.[3]

He died in 1840 in London, where he had moved earlier that year.[1][3]

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