Henrik Thrap-Meyer (31 July 1833 – 29 December 1910) was a

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architect. He is most associated with a wide range of significant buildings, including churches and schools. Thrap-Meyer was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Johan Jacob Busch Meyer (1801–1880) and Henriette Christiane Thrap (1812–1883). He was educated at Polytechnicum in

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and Zurich (1855–1860). He also conducted study trips to

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1870–71;

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1873;

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1878. He was a teacher at Bergen's Drawing School from 1860 to 1863. In 1864 he started his own architectural office in Christiania (now Oslo), and for many years he was among the country's leading architects. Thrap-Meyer was the Church Ministry Building consultant for many years and received the task to draw many schools, churches and other public buildings. Between 1886 and 1904, Thrap-Meyer was engaged as the architect in the development of the hospital for the Lovisenberg Deaconess College (''Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole''), a private college for nursing in the district of St. Hanshaugen in

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. He is most commonly associated with his work on

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, a building complex in the Ruseløkka district of central Oslo, which was built during the 1880s. The complex consists of three blocks with four and five-story tenements in plastered brick, with a uniform façade design and crowned by numerous domes and towers. The complex now houses the

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. He was a co-founder The Norwegian Engineering and Architectural Association (''Norske arkitekters landsforbund'') and of the Oslo Handicraft and Industrial Association (''Oslo Håndverks- og Industriforening'').

Selected works

and Ruseløkkbasarene (1881–90) * Onsøy Church (1877) *

Kristiansand Cathedral Kristiansand Cathedral ( no, Kristiansand domkirke) is a cathedral of the Church of Norway in Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Kvadraturen area in the central part of the city of Kristiansand. It is the ch ...

(1880–85) * Major renovation of

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(1882) * Kirkelandet kirke,

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(1875–78, burned 1940) * Grimstad New Church, (expansion from 1887 to 1888, burned in 1944) *

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(1889) * Hønefoss Prison (1862–1863) * Vaterlands Elementary school (1873) * Skien Latin School (1878–1883)

Gallery

File:2011-04-11 Onsøy kirke.jpg, Onsøy Church File:Statens lærerskole i forming 19.04.2011 12-46-58.JPG, State Teacher Training College (Oslo) File:Kristiansand Church.jpg, Kristiansand Cathedral File:Skien videregående skole - Brekkeby.jpg, Skien Latin School File:Lillesand kirke.jpg, Lillesand Church

References

1833 births 1910 deaths Architects from Bergen University of Hanover alumni ETH Zurich alumni {{Norway-architect-stub