Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (the younger; 19 January 1766 – 14 November 1837) was a Swedish
architect
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.
He was a
city architect in
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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, between 1804 and 1837.
Biography
Gjörwell was born in
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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. He was the son of architect
Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr. (1731–1811).
He attended the
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and was hired in 1788 by painter and architect
Louis Jean Desprez (c. 1743–1804).
In 1794, he made a study trip to
Rome
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. in 1796, he was employed as Deputy City Architect under
Erik Palmstedt (1741–1803).
Some of his designs include the garrison hospital on
Kungsholmen () completed in 1834, the main building of the
Royal Academy of Turku built between 1802 and 1815 under the direction of
Charles Bassi (1772–1840), the
Old Academy Building in
Turku
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consecrated in 1817 and the
Haga Palace built between 1802 and 1805.
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Swedish architects
1766 births
1837 deaths
Architects from Stockholm
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