Calmer Hambro

Calmer Hambro (1747-1806) was a Danish merchant and banker. 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. He grew up Hamburg, Germany, which is considered to be his hometown. He changed his surname to Hambro upon moving to Copenhagen in 1778. Although he wanted to be named Hamburg, the registrar misspelt his name, thus renaming him Calmer Hambro. Career Hambro took over his father-in-law's business in Copenhagen in 1779. 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. He later became a banker to the King of Denmark.