Jonas Collin (6 January 1776 - 28 August 1861) was a Danish civil servant and patron of the arts.
Early life and education edit
Collin was born in Copenhagen, the son of director in Klasselotteriet Niels Collin (1736-97) and Ingeborg Bolten (1735-1817). He grew up in the Collin House in Bredgade. He was taught at home, first by his parents and then by private teachers, including Christopher Frimann Omsen and the priest Michael Gottlieb Birckner.
Career edit
He studied law at the University of Copenhagenm graduating in 1795. His first job was in his father's office. This left him with enough time to study foreign languages and follow lectures on philosophy, mathematics and physics at the university. In 1800, he passed the examination in surveying. He was a member of Drejer's Club where many of the leading writers of the time met and was himself a contributor to Knud Lyne Rahbek's Minerva and other journals. Collin left the Class Lottery when his father passed away. His contacts among high-ranking civil servants got him a position as a volunteer in the Treasury (Rentekammeret) where he mainly worked in the agriculture departments. In 801, he was appointed as first copyist and then clerk. In 1807, he was 1807 appointed as a bank commissioner and in 1812 as Assessor in Finanskollegiet and in 1916 as a finance deputy (deputeret for finanserne). He worked under first Ernst Schimmelmann and then Johan Sigismund von Møsting.
From early in his career, Collin had thoughts about a fundamental reorganization of the central administration. In 1815 he anonymously published as short article in Minerva in which he mocked the ondolent and incompetent civil servants who only thought of their work as long as they were in their offices instead of "bringing it along wherever they go, going to bed with it at night and getting up with it in the morning". In the same articles he proposed to place the responsibility for the governemtn's government spending and incomes in a single department. On several occasions, personally, he in vain presented the same idea to Møsting. He was a member of the important finance commission which was established in 1836 under the leadership of Adam Wilhelm Moltke. He was a member of the Treasury from 1831-40 He retired in December 1848.
Collin and H. Bech founded Sparekassen for Kjøbenhavn og Omegn in 1820 He worked for the establishment of a public bathing facility at Rysensteen Bastion and the well and mineral water facility in Rosenborg Castle Garden.
Collin was a member of Landhusholdningsselskabet in 1805 and served as president of the association from 1809-55.
Culture edit
Collin was secretary for the foundation ad usus publicos from 1803 to 1833.This brought him in contact with most of the leading cultural figures of the time.
He was a co-founder of Athenæum and Selskabet til naturlærens udbredelse. In 1841m he became an honorary member of Academy of Fine Arts.
Personal life edit
Collin married Henriette Christine Birckner, née Hornemann, (c. 26 November 1772 - 21 May1845) on 13 November 1803 in Ledøje Church. She had previously been married to Michael Gottlieb Birckner, Collin's former teacher.
Written works edit
Collin published For Historie og Statistik især Fædrelandet in 1822-25.
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 Carl Gammeltoft painted by Herman Vedel | |
| Born | 20 September 1855 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 1 February 1934 (aged 78) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality (legal) | Danish |
Carl Gammeltoft (20 September 1855 - 1 February 1934) was a Danish businessman.
Early life and education edit
Gammeltoft was born in Copenhagen, the son of headmaster and later mayor C. Gammeltoft (1818-73) and Cathrine M. P. Nimb (1817-81). He was an apprentice in Hans Puggaard & Co.. The company played a central role in the Danish Sugar Factories. He later spent a few years abroad, working some of the time for some time for Lloyd's in London.
Career edit
Back in Denmark, in 1881, he was employedas a senior clerk (prokurist) in the Danish Sugar Factories. In 1882, just 27 years old, he was appointed as director alongside Gustav Adolph Hagemann. Gammeltoft, being an outstanding organizer and merchant, helped the young company successfully through the crisis years for the sugar industry. His strategy during World War I secured Denmark easier and cheaper access to sugar than any other market in Europe. He retired from the company in 1920.
Gammeltoft was a member of Privatbanken's bank council from 1921 to 1928.He was a specialist judge at the Maritime and Commercial Court from 1893 to 1910. He was a chairman of Forsikrings A/S Nye Danske af 1864, Reassuranceforeningen and Kastrup Glasværk.
Personal life edit
Gammeltoft married Henriette Marie Herforth. They had five children: Svend Aage Gammeltoft, Poul Henrik Gammeltoft, Elisabeth Marie Gammeltoft. Karen Margrethe Gammeltoft and Carl Christian Gammeltoft
Ny Vestergade 9 is a listed building located across the street from the main entrance to the National Museum in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Danish Registry of Protected Buildings and Places in 1932.[1]
History edit
The area was not reclaimed until the second half of the 17th century. Councilman Thomas Oxe owned two houses at the site in the 1790s. In 1799 his widow sold the lot to Christian Siegfred von Plessen (1646-1723) who later that same year sold it to Jens Sørensen Kuur. He served as councilman in Copenhagen from 1701 yp 1716. He constructed a three-winged house at the site in circa 1700-05. The house had probably been intended for his daughter, who had married his friend, Magnus Berg (1666-1739), a Norwegian wood carver, but died a few months after the wedding. On 14 October 1706, Kuur sold the property to merchant Peder Riegelsen. Court painter Hendrik Krock acquired it from Peder Riegelsen's widow in 1720. He sold it when he was appointed to president of the new art academy in 1738. The new owner was converter (omretter) in the Royal Mint Johan Jacob Lund.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
Book binder Jacob Wilhelm Boppenhausen (1710-1761) owned the property from 1755 to 1763. He had succeeded his father as book binder at the Royal Danish Library in 1737.
On 19 December 1763, the house in Ny Vestergade was acquired by merchant Søren Jensen Cramer (1706-ca.1774). He went bankrupr and in 1772 had to sell the property to copperprint engraver Hans Qvist. In September 1797, Qvist sold the house to Christian Vilhelm Wilcken (Wilken) Kyhl (1762-1827. The building was at the 1801 census home to a total of four families and 27 people. Kyhl lived with his wife and five children in the large apartment on the first floor. His wife died in 1808 and he then remarried the following year (possibly with a younger sister) with whom he had thee more daughters. He owned the property until his death in 1827.
Textile manufacturer Daniel Hartvig Drieser (1797-after 1870) purchased the property from Kyhl's estate in 1828. A total of 43 people (six households) lived in the complex at the time of the 1850 census.
On 24 February 1857, The property was acquired by master smith Carl Frederik Riedel (1823-c. 1891). His parents had in the 1830s been among Drieser's tenants. Together with a partner he later established a machine factory and iron foundry in Kingogade in Vesterbro. At the 1895 census, Riedel's widow had moved to Ordrup but was still the owner of the property in Ny Vestergade.
Both Riedel 's former company and the Ny Vestergade complex were taken over by Cand. polyt. Johan C.B. Howitz (1855-1908) in 1896. In 1901, all the residents (seven apartments) were related to the firm which was now operated as C.F. Riedels eftf. ("C.F. Riedel's Successor").
Howitzø widow Ella Kirstine continued the Ny Vestergade company after his death in 1908. She married stage director Paul Søren Nielsen (1862-1931) in Hellerup in 1910. Ny Vestergade 9 was in 1918 sold to merchant J.S. Stilling-Andersen, He sold it on 20 March 1922 to house painter Osvald Kjeldsen. On 9 March 1925, he sold it toglazier Odin Peter Ferdinand Hansen (1885-).
Wilhelm Weincke, a tobacco company, was based in the building in 1950.[2]
Architecture edit
The building consists of three floors and is 12 bays wide. A two-bay central gateway opens to a narrow courtyard flanked by two side wings. The complex was restored by architect Mogens Didriksen (1918-1991) in 1898.[3]
Rge key stone features the street number as well as two crossed pistols.
List of owners edit
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- 1689-1699 Kræmmer Thomas Oxe
- 1699 Statsmand Christian Siegfried von Plessen
- 1699-1706 Rådmand, stempelpapirkontrollør i København Jens Sørensen Kuur
- 1706-1720 Islandsk købmand, brygger Peder Riegelsen
- 1720-1737 Hofmaler Hendrik Krock
- 1738-1755 Omretter Johan Jacob Lund
- 1755-1763 Bogbinder Jacob Wilhelm Boppenhausen
- 1763-1772 Handelsmand Søren Jensen Cramer
- 1772-1797 Kobberstikker Hans Qvist
- 1797-1826 Rustmester Christian Kyhl
- 1828-1856 Bomuldfabrikant Daniel Hartvig Drieser
- 1856-1896 Kleinsmedmester Carl Frederich Riedel
- 1896-1918 Cand.polyt. fabrikant John. Howitz
- 1918-1922 Smørgrosserer, mejeribestyrer J. Stilling-Andersen
- 1922-1925 Malermester Osvald Kjeldsen
- 1925-1973 Glarmester, fabrikant Odin Hansen
- 1973-2015 Glashandler Jørgen Bloch Berendt
- 2015- Overlæge Nille Berendt
References edit
- ^ "Sag: Ny Vestergade 9" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Wilhelm Weincke". coneliand.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Ny Vestergade 9-9a-d" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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