page_title: Joseph Hambro
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Hambro / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hambros Plads in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Joseph Hambro was a Danish merchant, banker and political advisor.
context_section_description: Hambro was a merchant and banker. In 1800, he joined his father's bank and renamed it C. J. Hambro & Son. Under his leadership, the bank gave loans to the Danish government from 1821 to 1827. 
  In circa. 1830, he acquired Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn, from then on known as Hambros Plads, establishing both a rice mill with Denmark's first steam engine, the country's first canned food factory and a bakery at the site.
  Hambro became an advisor to Johan Sigismund von Møsting, who served as the Danish Minister of Finance.
caption: Hambros Plads in Christianshavn, Copenhagen
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