Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (the younger; 19 January 1766 – 14 November 1837) was a Swedish

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. He was a city architect in

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, between 1804 and 1837.

Biography

Gjörwell was born in

. 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

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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

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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 {{Sweden-architect-stub