Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia

Gottlieb Hartvig Abrahamson Gedalia (13 April 1816 - 10 March 1892) was a Jewish Danish banker, co-founder of Landmandsbanken.

[1][2] In order to supplement his modest earnings, Gedalia began engage in small-scale speculation in shares and bonds.

This made him a well-known character in the streets of Copenhagen and a favourite victim of the popular comic magazines of the time.

As early as the 1850s, he was working on plans for the establishment of a large private bank in Copenhagen,but they were delayed by C. F. Tietgen's Privatbanken, and it was not until around 1860 he found the time right for a new attempt, which in 1871 resulted in the foundation of Landmandsbanken.

Some of them, including the construction of the (Ålborg-Hjørring-Frederikshavn railway and port facilities in a number of provincial towns, resulted in huge profits.

He suffered heavy losses on the project, turned to Tietgen in vain for help from the Privatbanken and finally left the country in 1875 as a bankrupt man.