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The Business Activities of Eric Bollmann: Part II: The International Promoter1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Returning to Philadelphia after an unsuccessful trip to Louisiana in 1807 and 1808, Bollmann entered business again. When a character like Bollmann goes into business, he quite naturally turns promoter, and this Bollmann did in 1808. Foreign trade at the time being seriously interfered with by the struggle between England and France under Napoleon, Bollmann began with the promotion of domestic manufacture.
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1 For Part I, see Bulletin for November, 1943.
2 Kapp, Friedrich, Justus Erich Bollmann, Ein Lebensbild aus zwei Welttheilen (Berlin, 1880), pp. 352–354.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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7 Bollmann also succeeded in purifying pyroligneous acid so as to make it a substitute for distilled vinegar, then used in England for making so-called iron liquor for the dyers and printers in London and Manchester. Emporium of Arts and Sciences (Philadelphia, 1813), vol. i, p. 181.Google Scholar
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15 One Thaler was worth about 75 cents.
16 A biography of Eric Bollmann, by the author of this article, will be published shortly.