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Nyhavn 11 is an 18th-century property overlooking the Nyhavn canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer established a sugar refinery on the property in 1653 and it was later continued by changing owners until at least the 1860s. A small figure of a sugar-baker holding a sugar cone is still seen above the gate. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1932. Notable former residents include the general trader Jacob Severin and actors Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, Julie Sødring and Poul Reumert. The lamp manufacturer Louis Poulsen was later based in the building from 1908 to 2006.
Gammel Strand 44 is a historic property overlooking Slotsholmens Kanal and Slotsholmen in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. Notable former residents include ballet masters Antoine Bournonville and August Bournonville, physicist Hans Christian Ørsted and composer Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen.
David Brown was a Scottish-Danish merchant and shipowner. His trading house, established in a partnership with his brother John Brown (1723–1808) was active in overseas trade. He served as Lord Governor of Tranquebar in Danish India from February 1774 to January 1779.
John Brown was a Scottish-Danish merchant and ship-owner. He was a joint founder of John & David Brown in 1759. The company owned 17 ships in 1787 but was liquidated the following year. He was also active in the Danish Asiatic Company where he was a member of the board of directors from 1770–75 and from 1779–85. He was appointed as General War Commissioner in 1776. He was the second-largest landowner in Gentofte and owned Benzonseje from 1784 to 1788.
Jacob Heinrich Moresco, also known simply as Jacob Heinrich, was one of the first large-scale manufacturers of women's clothing in Denmark. His company, which at the end of the 19th century was the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries, was after his death in 1906 continued by his nephew Carl Moresco. His former hone, Villa Adelaide, was located in what is now Ordrup Park. Morescovej is named after him.
Sigfred Goldschmidt was a Jewish Danish businessman.
Andreas Nicolai Hansen was a Danish businessman and landowner. His former town mansion in Copenhagen was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1939.
Louis Meyer was a Danish businessman. His company, Beckett & Meyer, a wholesale company, was after his death continued by his son Ernst Meyer.
David Moses Halberstadt was a Jewish Danish businessman. His firm David Halberstadt established a steam mill in Christianshavn in Copenhagen in 1857 and later developed into the largest wholesaler of hides, fur, leather and wool in the Nordic countries.
Gammel Strand 40 is a Neoclassical property overlooking Slotsholmen Canal in the Olt Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. A commemorative plaque above the doorway commemorates that Georg Carstensen, founder of Tivoli Gardens, was a resident in the building when his amusement park opened in 1843. Other notable former residents of Gammel Strand 40 include the archeologist Peter Oluf Brøndsted, writer and editor Jacob Davidsen (1813–1891), songwriter Peter Faber, politician and bishop Ditlev Gothard Monra and journalist Henrik Cacling.d
George Ryan was an Irish-born Danish merchant, ship owner and banker. He continued running a trading house and shipping firm founded by his brother Phillip. He owned the property at Sankt Annæ Plads 7 in Copenhagen and the sugar plantation Mary's Fancy on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies.
Læderstræde 11 consists of two buildings, a western building from 1806 and an eastern one from 1875 (LæderstrædeA), situated on Strædet, close to Højbro Plads, in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. Læderstræde 11B was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1939. No. 11A is not heritage listed. Notable former residents include the businessman Louis Meyer for whom the younger of the two buildings was constructed.
Nyhavn 53, also known as Madame Tofte's House, is a residential building overlooking the Nyhavn canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was constructed with three storeys in the 1750s but owes its current appearance to a renovation in the 1870s. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1932. Notable former residents include the composer Peter Arnold Heise and the ballet dancer Augusta Nielsen. The Adventurers' Club of Denmark is based in a half-timbered warehouse in the courtyard.
Hans Rudolph Saabye was a Danish businessman. He succeeded Johann Ludvig Zinn as chair of Grosserer-Societetet in 1802. In 1792, he was appointed United States consul for the Port of Copenhagen.
Jørgen Thomsen Bech was a Danish businessman.
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- 1 2 "D.A. Meyer". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ↑ Nystrøm, Eiler. "Gentofte Sogn i fortid og nutid" (PDF) (in Danish). Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag. Retrieved 16 June 2022.