Piotr Fergusson Tepper

Piotr Tepper's palace at Długa Street in Warsaw

Piotr Fergusson Tepper (1713–1794) was a Polish banker, merchant and industrial entrepreneur[1][2] of Scottish and German origin.[1]

Biography

Piotr Fergusson Tepper of Warsaw was the wealthiest banker in the second half of 18th century Poland.[2] The Tepper bank had partners in Holland, Italy, and Russia and undertook large-scale international financial operations. Tepper was also the owner of a trading house and of landed estates in Mazovia and Volhynia.[2] The principal lender of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and of the Treasury of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1793 Tepper became bankrupt, along with several other Polish banks.[2] Piotr Fergusson Tepper was fatally wounded during disturbances at the time of the Kościuszko Insurrection, after his trading and banking house at Miodowa Street was plundered.[1] He is buried at Powązki Evangelical Cemetery in Warsaw.[1]

Family

Piotr Fergusson Tepper was the son of Scottish trader William Ferguson and his wife Katherina-Concordia Tepper, a sister of the wealthy and influential Prussian-Polish merchant, banker, furrier and fur trader Pjotr Tepper of Poznań (Pjotr Tepper managed the large-scale international trade using elite burgher family connections, and imported goods to Poland from many countries, including Britain).[3]

In 1763, he married Maria-Filipina Valentin d'Hauterive (c. 1736–1792), daughter of a French emigrant who left Languedoc, in southern France, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. They had ten children, including Polish-Russian composer Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wojciech Rogowski - Falenty Tepperów - z dziejów swobodnej bankowości ("free banking") w Polsce (Falenty of the Teppers - from the tradition of free banking in Poland) http://www.nbp.pl/konferencje/falenty2002/esej_pl.pdf
  2. 1 2 3 4 Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland), Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński (publisher), Kraków 1996, ISBN 83-86328-60-6
  3. ↑ Smolenski, Wladislaw. Miezczanstwo warszawskie w koncu XVIII w. Warszawa, 1976. p..79.
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