August Bendix Christofer Nielsen (7 May 1877 – 21 February 1956) was a Norwegian architect. August Nielsen was born in the village of

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, Norway. He was a son of politician Sivert Nielsen (1823–1904) and Jonethe Cornelia Falck Heide (1833–1927). He received the name Bendix from his maternal grandfather. In 1910 he married physician's daughter Ella Hassel, who was a sister of Odd Hassel. Nielsen attended Trondheim Technical College (now

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) from 1893 to 1897, and spent the next years as an assistant of architects including

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as well as Andreas Bugge, Heinrich Jürgensen and

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. During 1903, he conducted study trip to Scotland, England and France. He started his own architect's firm at

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(now Oslo) in 1911. He is most associated with the Deichman Library at Schous plass and the entrance portal at Frogner stadion (both 1914). He contributed with Rudolf Emanuel Jacobsen in creating several buildings at Frogner station's

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; buildings that were moved later. He also designed villas in ''Trosterudveien 9'' and ''7'' (both in 1911), ''Holmenkollveien 61c'' (1915) and ''Gråkamveien 17'' (1922). From 1918 he partnered with architect

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. Among their works were Majorstuen Church, Fredrikstad Library (both finished in 1926) and the diocesan seat in Tromsø (1924). From 1920 to 1947 Nielsen was the director of regulation in Aker Municipality. He was also a member of the

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of Aker Municipality from 1919 to 1922. He also led the work of regulating the city of

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. He was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold. He died at Oslo during 1956 and was buried at

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