Ephraim Meyer

Ephraim Meyer (born November 16, 1779 in Schnaittach (?), † August 26, 1849 in Hanover ) was a German money changer and banker .

Life

family

Ephraim Meyer was the son of the merchant and slaughterer Meyer Moses Löb from a Jewish family. He himself became the father of Louis Ephraim Meyer and Samuel Ephraim Meyer .

Career

Ephraim Meyer founded a money changing business in 1799 at the age of 20.

Ephraim Meyer was a board member of the Jewish Hanoverian charity and a member of the Jewish community in Hanover.

His grave can be found in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Oberstrasse .

See also

• History of the Jews in Hanover

literature

• Selig Gronemann : Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover , Hanover, 1913, pp. 146–148.
• Peter Schulze : MEYER, (3) Ephraim. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 252.
• Peter Schulze: Meyer, (3) Ephraim. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 440.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Schulze: MEYER, (3) Ephraim (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Schulze: Meyer, (3) Ephraim (see literature)