Jacob or Jakob Bremer (19 June 1711 – 5 September 1785) was a Swedish merchant and industrialist.
[1] After school, he worked for the Västmanland provincial government for two years before moving in 1727 to Åbo (now Turku, Finland), where he became a successful merchant, shipowner, and industrialist.
Jacob Bremer was the richest business person in Finland and the biggest ship owner in Åbo.
By his second wife, he was the father of Carl Fredrik Bremer (1770–1830), whose daughter Fredrika became Sweden's most successful 19th-century novelist.
[1] They also had a daughter Agata Bremer (1774—1810), who died unmarried in Stockholm, Sweden.