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From Copenhagen Stock Exchange
''From Copenhagen Stock Exchange'' () is a monumental 1895 oil on canvas group portrait painting by Peder Severin Krøyer, featuring 50 representatives of the Danish commercial and financial industries gathered in the Great Hall of Børsen (the Exchange Building) in Copenhagen, Denmark. History The idea for the painting was conceived by Gustav Adolph Hagemann in 1881 while he was entertaining C. F. Tietgen, who was posing for Peder Severin Krøyer's portrait of him. Hagemann presented the idea of four monumental group portrait paintings for the newly refurbished Great Hall in Børsen featuring leading representatives of Denmark's trade, industry, agriculture, and shipping sectors. The Børsen, Exchange Building was selected as the scene for the first of the paintings. The building had been purchased by Grosserer-Societetet in 1857. Krøyer's price for painting it was Danish krone, DKK 20,000, and the plan was to raise the money through contributions from the people seen in it. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peder Severin Krøyer
Peder Severin Krøyer (; 23 July 1851 – 21 November 1909), also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter. Life Growing up and early training Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway, on 23 July 1851 to Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal. He was raised by Gjesdal's sister, Bertha Cecilie (born 1817) and brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, after his mother was judged unfit to care for him. Krøyer moved to Copenhagen to live with his foster parents soon afterward. Having begun his art education at the age of nine under private tutelage, he was enrolled in Copenhagen's Technical Institute the following year. In 1870 at the age of 19 Krøyer completed his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ('), where he had studied with Frederik Vermehren. In 1873 he was awarded the gold medal, as well as a scholarship. Early career His official debut as a painter was in 1871 at Charlottenborg Palace, Charlottenborg with a portrait of a friend, the painter Frans Schw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabinus Seidelin
Sabinus Theodor William Halvor Seidelin (29 April 1819 – 29 October 1904) was a Danish businessman and landowner. He founded the company S. Seidelin. Early life and education Seidelin was born on 29 April 1819 in Skanderborg, the son of pharmacist David Seidelin (1784–1858) and Cecilie Ulrikke Sidelmann (1788–1866). His brother was the historian Paulus Seidelin. In 1834, Seidelin became an apprentice under merchant Vitus Ingerslev (1801–77) in Aarhus; after completing his apprenticeship, he worked for the firm for a few more years. In 1840, he moved to Hamburg to continue his commercial training at Heuss & Menke. He was later sent back to Denmark by the German company to work as a travelling salesman. Career On 19 October 1843, Seidelin opened a shop in Holbæk. His business prospered and developed into a wholesaler. His shop was located at Ahlgade 41. On 29 May 1856, it relocated to Copenhagen where Seidelin purchased Moses & Søn G. Melchior's property at Amagerto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sthyr & Kjær
Sthyr & Kjær was a grocery wholesaler based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1978, it was merged with another firm under the name Dagros (after another merger renamed Dagrofa). Since 1970, its former headquarters at the corner of Rådhusstræde and Magstræde has housed the Huset KBH cultural centre (formerly known as "Huset i Magstræde"). History The company was founded on 2 August 1866 by Selgen Sthyr (1837–1922) and P. B. Kjær (1835–1911). They knew each other from Adolph's trading firm where they had both worked. Initially, the company was primarily involved in the sugar trade. It bought almost all the sugar that Moses & Søn G. Melchior imported from the Danish West Indies. Im 1875, Selgen Sthyr's brother P. C. A. Sthyr (1835–1916) became a partner. In 1881, Sthyr & Kjær bought the property at Rådhusstræde 13 and made it its new headquarters. It also owned the Niels Brock House on Strandgade in Christianshavn. In 1893, P. B. Kjær retired from the firm. In 1894, Selge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip W
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigfred Goldschmidt
Sigfred Goldschmidt (8 July 1831 – 13 October 1906) was a Jewish Danish businessman. Early life and education Goldschmidt was born on 8 July 1831 in Copenhagen, the son of silk and textile merchant Bendix Meyer Goldschmidt (1791–1874) and Rose Trier (1802–1890). He was educated in L. S. Trier's banking business. Career From 1850, Goldschmidt was employed in his maternal uncle Adolph Trier's trading firm (founded 1841). Based out of the cellar at Amagertorv 8, it was still mostly a retail shop although Trier had recently made a move into the wholesale market. Goldschmidt was made a partner in the firm on 1 January 1857 and it was from this on exclusively a wholesale business. Its name was changed to Adolph Trier & Goldschmidt until 1867. Trier & Goldschmidt was one of the first Danish trading houses to avoid the Hamburg-based intermediaries when trading on other European and overseas markets. It grew to become one of the largest Danish wholesalers of colonial goods such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Cloëtta
Christoph Cloëtta, (24 September 1836 - 30 March 1897) was a Swiss-born Danish chocolatier and founder of the Cloetta, Brødrene Cloëtta chocolate factory in Copenhagen. Cloëtta was appointed as Swiss consul in 1888. Early life and education Cloëtta was born on 24 September 1836 at Bergün in Graubünden, Switzerland, the son of local farmer Nuttin Cloëtta (1803–83) and Jacobea Janett (1810–99). Christoph and his brothers Bernhard and Nuttin moved to Copenhagen. They started out by operating various smaller Swiss-style ''conditoreis''. Career On 3 November 1862, Christoph Cloëtta and his two brothers opened a chocolate factory under the name Brødrene Cloëtta (Cloëtta Brothers) in which he soon came to play a dominant role. The factory was initially based in a building at Sortedam Mill outside the city but was after a few years moved to a building at Niels Hemmingsens Gade 32. This led to a period with rapid growth. Brødrene Cloëtta was in 1983 granted a royal warr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophus Berendsen
Sophus Berendsen (16 October 1829 – 18 June 1884) was a Danish founder of Sophus Berendsen A/S (now Berendsen plc). Early life and education Berendsen was born on 16 October 1829 in Copenhagen, the son of Isak Nathan Berendsen (1782–1852) and Rachel Meyer (1788–1851). He received a thorough commercial education and then worked as a clerk in a trading firm. Career In 1854, Berendsen established his own firm which traded in iron, steal and glass, initially as a commodity broker but later as an import business. The firm prospered from the building boom that followed in the many new districts that emerged when Copenhagen's fortifications were decommissioned a few years later. Berendsen lived to see it develop into the largest company of its kind in the country. Personal life Berendsen married Mariane Levin (17 April 1825 – 14 May 1886), a daughter of merchant Assor Levin (1778–1834) and Susanne Cohn (died 1859), on 26 May 1858 in Copenhagen. Berendsen died on 18 June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Collstrop
Andreas Collstrop (19 April 1847 - 21 July 1933) was a Danish businessman. He inherited the timber company R. Collstrop (now Collstrop) in 1888 and opened Denmark's first wood preservation facility at Køge in 1889. Early life and education Collstrop was born on 19 April 1847 in Copenhagen, the son of timber merchant Rudolph Collstrop (1812–77) and Henriette Claudine Martine Oppermann (1810–58). His father was the owner of R. Collstrop, a timber business with a history dating back to 1838. Collstrop received a commercial education first in J. P. Suhr & Søn and later in England. Career Collstrop was licensed as a merchant in 1871. His father's death in 1877 left him as the sole over of the family business. After a few years he transformed the company from a timber retailer to a commodity broker and wholesale business in a scale that made it one of the largest and most reputable in the industry. He opened a tic mill at Køge in 1888 which was followed by Denmark's fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Frederik Tietgen
Carl Frederik Tietgen (19 March 1829 – 19 October 1901) was a Danish financier and industrialist. He played an important role in the industrialisation of Denmark as the founder of numerous prominent Danish companies, many of which are still in operation today. Tietgen notably formed conglomerates, thus several of Tietgen's companies attained monopoly-like status, cementing their durability. Tietgen was a dedicated Grundtvigian, and financed the completion of the Marble Church at his own expense. Early life and career Tietgen was born on 19 March 1829 in Odense, the son of a social club manager catering to the local bourgeoisie. He helped his family out at the club throughout his childhood. After finishing his commercial apprenticeship, he worked in the United Kingdom for five years, and settled in Manchester, England. During that time he also traveled to northern Germany, Norway and Sweden. In the United Kingdom Tietgen gained experience in private banking, which at that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Henriques
Marcus Ruben Henriques, commonly known as Martin (R.) Henriques (26 December 1825 – 25 June 1912) was a Jewish-Danish businessman. He was the father of the musician and editor Robert Henriques and the painter Marie Henriques. Early life and career Martin Henriques was born in Copenhagen as one of 18 children of the wealthy banker Ruben Henriques and his second wife Jeruchim-Jorika Henriques. His father had founded the brokerage firm R. Henriques jr. in 1801. Martin Henriques and his brother Aron Henriques took over the company in 1851. The company was based on Amagertorv. Family and property Henriques married Therese Abrahamson in November 1854, the daughter of Salomon Abrahamson, a Jewish merchant in Rødby on the island of Falster. Her wealthy maternal aunt had brought her to Copenhagen at an early age. She was a talented pianist. The couple had five children. Four of them, the daughters Anna and Fernanda and sons Robert and Edmond, were born within a period of just four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Hansen (businessman)
Harald Andreas Hansen (24 March 1835 – 10 December 1902) was a Danish businessman and politician. Early life and education Hansen was born on 24 March 1835 in Copenhagen, the son of Andreas Nicolai Hansen (1798–1873) and Emma Eliza Grut (1803–1865). He completed his schooling in 1851 and earned his cand.phil. degree in 1852. He then received a thorough commercial education in England and Germany before travelling widely in the United States, Australia and the Far East. Career Hansen had not yet returned from his travels when he joined his father's firm A. N. Hansen & Co. in 1859. His elder brother Alfred Hansen had already joined the firm in 1856. The two brothers continued the firm after their father's death in 1873, initially with Alfred Hansen in a dominant role but after his death in 1893 with Harald Hansen as the sole owner. The company operated a rice and flour mill as well as a pig farm and slaughterhouse at Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn but was also operating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Wessel
Theodor Wilhelm Wessel (27 February 1842 – 31 July 1905) was a Danish businessman. He is remembered as one of the two founders of the Magasin du Nord chain of department stores. Early life and education Wessel was born on 27 February 1842 in Odense, the elder of two sons of customs assistant Herman Hinrich Wessel (1802–78) and Wilhelmine Rasmussen (1810–1865). His father's family had originally come to Denmark from Vremen and was thus unrelated to the other Danish Werssel family originating in Norway (cf. Peter Wessel, Johan Herman Wessel). Aged 14 Wessel was apprenticed to L. J. Baagøe, who operated a substantial linnen and drapery business in association with a grocery shop in Svendborg. Wessel's younger brother Peter (Pedro) Wessel (27 September 1851 – 8 February 1921) emigrated to Chile in 1976, where he established his own trading house in Caracoles. Career On completing his apprenticeship in 1864, Wessel was employed as a travelling salesman by M. E. Grøn & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
