| Calmer Hambro | |
| Birth Name: | Calmer Joachim Levy |
| Birth Date: | 1747 |
| Birth Place: | Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark (later Germany) |
| Death Date: | 1806 |
| Death Place: | 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.[5]
He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro (1807–1877) moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.[2] [7] [8]