Moses Melchior (1736–1817)
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Moses Melchior | |
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| Born | 1736 |
| Died | 1817 (aged 80–81) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation | Merchant |
Moses Melchior (1736–1817) was a Jewish-Danish merchant. He founded the trading house Moses & Søn G. Melchior.
Biography
[edit]Moses Melchior was born in Hamburg, the son of Marcus Melchior and Zippora Rosbach. He first visited Copenhagen in about 1750 to establish connections for his merchant father and moved there on a permanent basis in 1760. For the first 20 years he dealt mainly with tobacco from the Netherlands and Bremen, partly in partnership with his brother-in-law Akiba Jakobsen. He later founded the trading house Moses & Søn G. Melchior. By 1790 he traded on the Danish West Indies.[1]
Дальнейшее чтение
[edit]- Martin-Meyer, Povl : Moses & Søn G. Melchior
References
[edit]- ^ "Melchior, Mosesn" (in Danish). Business Encyclopedia of the Oldenburg Monarchy. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
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Categories:
- 18th-century Danish Jews
- 19th-century Danish Jews
- Danish Ashkenazi Jews
- Danish merchants
- Danish people of German-Jewish descent
- Melchior family
- 18th-century Danish businesspeople
- Businesspeople from Copenhagen
- Businesspeople from Hamburg
- Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire
- 1736 births
- 1817 deaths
- Jews from Hamburg
- 18th-century German Jews
- 19th-century German Jews
- German Ashkenazi Jews
- Immigrants to Denmark
- Merchants from Denmark–Norway