Melchior, Moses

Moses Melchior.

Born 1736, died 1817. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 15)

Family
Father: Melchior, Marcus, merchant of Hamburg. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 15)

Wife: Rosbach, Zippora (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 15)

Son: Melchior, Gerson Moses (1771-1845) and several others. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 18)

Timeline
1750, about - Went to Copenhagen, among other thing to establish connections for his merchant father. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 15)

1760 - Emigrated from Hamburg to Copenhagen (Bruun, 1901, III, p. 51)

1761 - Traded in Copenhagen - for the first 20 years mainly with tobacco from the Netherlands and Bremen and at some of the time in partnership with his brother-in-law Jakobsen, Akiba. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 17)

Later founded the firm of Moses & Søn G. Melchior. (Bruun, 1901, III, p. 51)

1790 - Traded with the Danish West Indies. (Povl Martin-Meyer: Moses & Søn G. Melchior, p. 17)