Adolf Asher (1800–53)

German bookseller and anglophile. Originally Abraham Isaac Ascher. Learned business methods in London, 1820–5. Diamond-merchant, antique-dealer, and bookseller in St Petersburg, 1825–30. Left Russia because of anti-Semitic policies. Established a bookshop on Unter den Linden, Berlin, in 1830. Imported English books into Germany. Set up a branch of his business in London in 1831. Provided continental books to the British Library from 1841.