Ludvig Lorentz Mozart Waagepetersen (22 October 1813 – 25 February 1885) was a

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wine merchant. He is now mainly remembered for founding the

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quarter of

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in Copenhagen.

Early life and education

Mozart Waagepetersen was born in

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on 22 October 1813, the son of wine merchant Christian Waagepetersen and Albertine Emmerentse Schmidt (13 October 1793 – 15 November 1864). He was educated in his father's wine company.

Career

Waagepetersen continued the family's wine company upon his father's death in 1840. The company was based in the Waagepetersen House at

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18, He ceded the company to A. H. Beeken, H. F. Eegholm and F. N. Løvstrøm in 1870 but Eegholm and Løvstrøm left the company again in 1880 and 1885. The company was at some point moved to new premises at

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79.

Personal life

Mozart Waagepetersen married Charlotte Caroline Mathilde Schram. She was a daughter of director of the Widow's Pension Fund (Enkekassen) Gerhard Christopher Schram (1776-1847) and Anna Johanne Christiane Jørgensen (1802). Mozart and Mathilde Waagepetersen had no children but adopted the illegitimate son of Alce Tutein, the daughter of landowner and politician Peter Adolph Tutein, who had become pregnant with painter Johannes Müller. Müller was painting a miniature portrait of Alice Tutein as a gift to her fiancé, Alexander Brun. The boy was given the name Gaston Waagepetersen.

Rosendal and the Rosenvænget Quarter

Waagepetersen bought the country house Rosendal in Østerbro from

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's heirs in 1857. Waagepetersen sold the land of the Rosendal estate off in lots for redevelopment with

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s. The buyers were mostly businessmen, well-to-do master craftsmen and high-ranking officers and civil servants but also cultural figures such as the painters

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and

Wilhelm Marstrand Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand (24 December 1810 – 25 March 1873), painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned ar ...

, the composer

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and the actress

Johanne Luise Heiberg Johanne Luise Heiberg (; née Pätges; 22 November 1812 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish actress of the 19th century. She is most famous for her work at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where she achieved great success. Though she was clo ...

. . The land was sold in the period 1857–1873. Waagepetersen used Rosendal as a summer retreat until his death, The building was demolished in 1890 and replaced by an apartment building.

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