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Peter Bergheim, 1813-1895.

Born in 1813 as a Jew, he emigrated to England in 1834, where he converted to Christianity. Bergheim arrived in Palestine in 1838 as part of a mission of the British mission and worked first as a pharmacist at the mission hospital in Jerusalem. Bergheim began filming in the late 1850s or early 1860s, apparently inspired by the photographer / banker Tancred Dumas. In the late 1860s, the two established a joint studio in Beirut. At the same time, Bergheim owned a successful photography shop in the Old City of Jerusalem. In 1872, Bergheim purchased the land around Tel Gezer and the village of Abu Shusha and established a modern agricultural farm, one of the first in Palestine to use modern agricultural methods and mechanical tools imported from Europe. In 1877 Bergheim established in Jerusalem near the Damascus Gate the first industrial flour mill in Israel operated by steam. The flour of the Bergheim mill was known for its quality among the residents of Jerusalem. In the agricultural farm in Abu Shusha, Bergheim planted many mulberry trees for the raw silk industry.

In 1880 Bergheim built a new house in Jerusalem, named after him to this day, which today forms part of the Jerusalem Municipality. Despite all this, the 1880s and 1890s were not good to Peter Bergheim. In 1885, his son was killed on the agricultural farm that had been subject to attacks by the local Arabs during the entire duration of its existence, and in 1892 he went bankrupt Peter Bergheim died in Jerusalem in 1895. He left behind a series of photographs of the gates of the walls of Jerusalem.