Ernest Thiel

Swedish financier and art collector

Ernest Thiel
Ernest Jacques Thiel (18 August 1859 – 6 January 1947) was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thiel Gallery (Swedish: Thielska galleriet). Biography. Ernest Thiel was born in the Swedish town of Norrköping. . His parents were the Belgian Catholic engineer Jacques Thiel and Fanny Stiebel, of German-Jewish origin. After school in Stockholm, Thiel was sent to Germany to learn trade in a Hamburg merchant house, and later worked in a bank there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thiel

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