Calmer Hambro

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.

He grew up Hamburg, Germany, which is considered to be his hometown. He changed his name 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.

Hambro took over his father-in-law's business in Copenhagen in 1779. He later became a banker to the King of Denmark.

Hambro married a cousin, Thobe Levi, the daughter of Isach Joseph Levi, in Copenhagen in 1778. They were Jewish. They had a son, Joseph Hambro.

He died in 1806 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

His grandson, Carl Joachim Hambro, moved to London, England, where he founded the Hambros Bank in 1839.