Calmer Hambro

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

Calmer Hambro
Born	Calmer Joachim Levy 1747 Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark (later Germany)
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)

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.^[1]

He grew up in 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]

Career

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]

Personal life

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.^[5]

Death

He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Legacy

His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro (1807–1877) moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.^[2][7][8]