Jacob Bremer

Jacob or Jakob Bremer (19 June 1711 – 5 September 1785) was a Swedish merchant and industrialist.

Life

Jacob Bremer was born on 19 June 1711 in Västerås, Sweden, to Isak Bremer and Anna Hult.

After school, he worked for the Västmanland provincial government for two years before moving to Åbo (now Turku, Finland), where he became a successful merchant, shipowner, and industrialist. He married Margareta, the daughter of Åbo's administrator (rådmann) Josef Pipping, on 13 January 1741. She died on 23 April 1766 and, on 18 April 1767, he married the 21-year-old Ulrika Fredrika, the daughter of the judge (hovrättsassessorn) Erik Gustav Salonius. By his first wife, he was the father of Isac (1741–1774) and Josef Bremer (1743–1814). By his second wife, he was the father of Carl Fredrik Bremer, whose daughter Fredrika became Sweden's most successful 19th-century novelist.

He died on 5 September 1785 in Åbo.