View source for Bargum, (Henning) Frederik

Born 1733. Died c. 1800 (BioLek II) 

Merchant in Copenhagen. By family related to [[Gustmeier, Carl Hieronymus]] who traded in timber and money (BioLek II). Gustmeier was married to Frederik Bargum's aunt [Gustmeier, Catharina]], and upon the death of Gustmeier, Frederik Bargum and his aunt, the widow, ran the [[House og Gustmeier & Bargum]] together in companionship. Bargum also married his aunt's daughter.  (BioLek II) 


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1753 - Bought a number of cotton textiles from the Asiatic Company ship PRINSESSE WILHELMINE CAROLINE's cargo (Moltke archive, no. 82)

1756 - Bought a number of cotton textiles from the Asiatic Company ship FREDERIK & LOUISE's cargo (Moltke archive, no. 94)

1760 - Named ''generaltobaksdirektør''. This title meant he had monopoly of trade in tobacco, which was not receieved well in the community (BioLek II)

1761 - Passed the company on to fellow merchant [[Borre, Peter]] of the merchant house [[House of Borre & Fenger]] (BioLek II) 

1762 - The company [[House og Gustmeier & Bargum]] was pushed out of the timber trade by [[Bodenhoff, Andreas]] (Gold in Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914, p. 65)

? - Bought the Frenchman's [[Douilhac]] manufacture of hats (BioLek II) 

1764 - Was granted priviledge to keep running the manufacture of hats. He also had a fishbone manufacture (BioLek II) 

1764 - c.: Wealthy enough to contract [[Jardin, J. N.]] to build a mansion in Amaliegade, the so-called Gule Palæ (BioLek II)  

1765 - Granted oktroj to form ''Det danske Guineiske Kompagni'', a partnership that traded slaves, ivory and sugar in West Africa and the West Indies (BioLek II)

1772 - Listed as ''subscribent'', i.e. contributor, to a reprint of Ludvig Holberg’s comic epos Peder Paars ([https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0WdWAAAAcAAJ&hl=da&pg=GBS.PR44 Holberg, Peder Paars, 1772])


[[Category: Merchant]] [[Category: Male]]