Julius Caesar Czarnikow

Julius Caesar Czarnikow
Born 1838
Sondershausen, Germany
Died April 17, 1909
London, U.K.
Residence Eaton Square, London, U.K.[1]
Effingham, Surrey, U.K.[2]
Occupation Sugar broker
Net worth GBP£1 million[3]
Parent(s) Moritz Czarnikow
Johanne Bar

Julius Caesar Czarnikow (1838-1909) was a German-born, London-based sugar broker and investor.

Early life

Julius Caesar Czarnikow was born in 1838 in Sondershausen, Germany.[1][4] He was of Polish Jewish descent.[5] His father was Moritz Czarnikow and his mother, Johanne Bar.[4]

Czarnikow moved to England in 1854,[6] and he became a British subject in 1861.[7]

Career

Czarnikow founded a sugar brokerage firm, Czarnikow & Co., in 1862.[7] It had offices in Liverpool, Glasgow and New York City.[1] He partnered with Manuel Rionda of Cuba, who admitted to Czarnikow in 1909 that he struggled to find the right chemist for sugar manufacturing.[8]

Czarnikow was an investor in a sugar shopping company from the West Indies to Central Europe.[3] By 1872, he was also the largest investor in the South Carolina Phosphate Company.[9] Additionally, by 1888 he was an investor in the London Produce Clearing House,[3] and he served as its deputy chairman.[7]

Death

Czarnikow died on April 17, 1909 in London.[10] By the time of his death, "he was said to be the biggest sugar broker in the world",[10] with an estimated wealth of GBP£1 million.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "OBITUARY". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 57 (2944): 465. April 23, 1909. Retrieved April 20, 2016 – via JSTOR. (registration required (help)).
  2. ↑ O'Connor, Monica Mercy (1973). The history of Effingham in Surrey. Effingham, Surrey: Effingham Women's Institute. ISBN 9780950314303. OCLC 874932.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Chapman, Stanley D. (1992). Merchant enterprise in Britain : from the Industrial Revolution to World War I. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 9780521351782. OCLC 23694086.
  4. 1 2 Orbell, John. "Czarnikow, (Julius) Caesar (1838-1909), sugar broker". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (2003). Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914. New York City: Routledge. ISBN 9780415215763. OCLC 43913171.
  6. ↑ Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472905734. OCLC 882574116.
  7. 1 2 3 Norman, Peter (2011). The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing in Globalised Financial Markets. New York City: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470686324.
  8. ↑ Dye, Alan (1998). Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780804728195. OCLC 36485838.
  9. ↑ Tischendorf, Alfred P. (October 1955). "A Note on British Enterprise in South Carolina 1872-1886". The South Carolina Historical Magazine 56 (4): 196. Retrieved April 20, 2016 – via JSTOR. (registration required (help)).
  10. 1 2 "London Sugar Merchant Dead". The Leavenworth Times (Leavenworth, Kansas). April 18, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. (registration required (help)).
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