Ernesto Tornquist
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Ernesto Tornquist (born December 31, 1842 in Buenos Aires , † June 17, 1908 ibid) was an Argentinian industrialist and founder of the Banco Tornquist .
Life
Ernesto Tornquist's grandparents came from Hamburg and their eponymous ancestors came from the area around Karlskrona in Sweden. Tornquist's father, Jorge Pedro Ernesto Tornquist (1801–1876), was born in Baltimore , United States and later worked as a businessman in Buenos Aires. In addition, he also held the position of consul for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Montevideo in Uruguay. Tornquist's mother, Rosa Camusso Alsina (1805–1871), came from Buenos Aires. The father was a Lutheran and the mother a Roman Catholic denomination.
Tornquist first attended the Evangelical German School (Escuela Evangélica Alemana) in Buenos Aires and continued his education in Krefeld in Germany from 1856 to 1858 .
Tornquist founded a company exporting and importing agricultural goods and machinery in 1874. In 1880 he had the large Refinería Argentina sugar factory built in Rosario ( Santa Fe province ) . Among other things, the Tornquist family devoted themselves to fishing on Islas Georgias del Sur , to oil research in Mendoza through the Argentinia de Pesca company, to cultivating the quebracho tree in Santiago and to building the railway in the north of Santa Fe with Belgian capital. Ernesto Tornquist played a crucial role in the negotiations that prevented a war between Argentina and Chile. He was friends with the Presidents Julio A. Roca and Carlos Pellegrini and was against the military plans of the Minister Estanislao Zeballos during the presidency of José Figueroa Alcorta (1906-1910). In addition, Ernesto Tornquist founded the city of Tornquist in the Pampas Argentinias near Bahía Blanca south of Buenos Aires , which today has a nature reserve.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tornquist, Ernesto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tornquist, Don Ernesto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1908 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |