Isaac Carasso

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Isaac Carasso (born January 21, 1874 in Saloniki , Ottoman Empire ; died April 19, 1939 in Paris , France ) was one of the pioneers in the marketing of yogurt in Western Europe and the founder of the Danone company .

Life

Isaac Carasso was born in 1874 to a family of Sephardic Jews in what was then Ottoman Saloniki, which was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe . A few months after the Greek army captured the multiethnic city in the Second Balkan War in 1913 , Isaac Carasso's family fled and settled in Barcelona .

There Carasso noticed that numerous children in the city suffered from digestive and gastrointestinal complaints. Knowing the work of Ilya Ilyich Metschnikow , who had made known how fermented milk could cure these complaints , he came up with the idea of ​​using the Balkan yogurt made from fermented milk as a remedy. He imported some yoghurt cultures from Bulgaria and those that Metschnikow had grown at the Pasteur Institute in Paris . Since yoghurt was largely unknown in Western Europe at the time, he initially sold it as a drug in pharmacies. A small shop selling yogurt that he opened in 1919 was the cornerstone of what would later become the Danone Group. He gave him the name "Danone" in reference to Danón , the nickname of his son Daniel in Ladino .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stage.danone.ch
  2. ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2009/05/23/daniel-carasso-fondateur-de-danone_1197142_3382.html
  3. ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2009/05/23/daniel-carasso-fondateur-de-danone_1197142_3382.html
personal data
SURNAME Carasso, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Danone company
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Saloniki , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1939
Place of death Paris , France