Carl Adolph Feilberg (1810
Carl Feilberg may refer to: * Carl Adolph Feilberg (1810–1896), Danish businessman * Carl Feilberg (1844–1887), Danish-Australian journalist * Carl Gunnar Feilberg Carl Gunnar Feilberg (October 22, 1894 – January 6, 1972) was a Danish geographer, ethnographer and explorer of Asia. He was a professor of human geography at the University of Copenhagen, known for his ethnographic fieldwork among the Lur pasto ...

Carl Adolph Feilberg (1810–1896)
Carl Adolph Feilberg (20 August 1810 – 8 January 1896) was a Danish businessman. He founded Falkonergårdens Fabrikker on the Falkonergården estate in Frederiksberg in 1842. Early life and education Feilberg was born on 20 August 1810 in Copenhagen, the son of Henning Frederik Feilberg and Louise Brummer. His father was a factory owner, investor and businessman and who served as chief of plans for the Bank of Denmark. He studied engineering (Cand. Polyt.) at the College of Advanced Technology. Career Feilberg bought Falkonergården, a former royal falconry. He established a soap and wax candle factory under the name Falkonergårdens Fabrikker at the site in 1842. Personal life Feilberg married Albertine Hagen. The couple had no children. His brother, Nicolai Laurentius Feilberg, a priest, was the brother-in-law of the painter Christen Købke. Købke painted his portrait and painted his last nature studies on the Falkonérgården estate. He was the paternal uncle ...
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Carl Feilberg
Carl Adolph Feilberg (21 August 1844 – 25 October 1887), also spelt Carl Adolf Feilberg, was a Danish-born Australian journalist, newspaper editor, general political commentator, and Indigenous rights activist. He lived and worked mainly in the colony of Queensland, and in his editorials and columns criticised many aspects of the colonial government policy towards Aboriginal Australians in the colony, in particular the use of the Native Police. After a major campaign in ''The Queenslander'' in 1880 and the publication of a pamphlet titled ''The Way We Civilise: Black and White: The Native Police'', he suffered personal and political fallout, and had to move to Melbourne for some time. After becoming ill there and moving back to Brisbane, he died at the age of 43. Although widely cited, his work was not lauded for most of a century after his death, but towards the 21st century, his reputation as a journalist and historian has been recognised. He also wrote short stories, nov ...
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