Henrik Thrap-Meyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian architect
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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Henrik Thrap-Meyer
- Henrik Thrap-Meyer (31 July 1833 – 29 December 1910) was a Norwegian architect.
- He is most associated with a wide range of significant buildings, including churches and schools.Thrap-Meyer was born in Bergen, Norway.
- He was the son of Johan Jacob Busch Meyer (1801–1880) and Henriette Christiane Thrap (1812–1883).
- He was educated at Polytechnicum in Hannover and Zurich (1855–1860).
- He also conducted study trips to England 1870–71; Italy 1873; France 1878.He was a teacher at Bergen's Drawing School from 1860 to 1863.
- In 1864 he started his own architectural office in Christiania (now Oslo), and for many years he was among the country's leading architects.
- Thrap-Meyer was the Church Ministry Building consultant for many years and received the task to draw many schools, churches and other public buildings.
- Between 1886 and 1904, Thrap-Meyer was engaged as the architect in the development of the hospital for the Lovisenberg Deaconess College (Lovisenberg diakonale høgskole), a private college for nursing in the district of St.
- Hanshaugen in Oslo.He is most commonly associated with his work on Victoria Terrasse, a building complex in the Ruseløkka district of central Oslo, which was built during the 1880s.
- The complex consists of three blocks with four and five-story tenements in plastered brick, with a uniform façade design and crowned by numerous domes and towers.
- The complex now houses the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.He was a co-founder The Norwegian Engineering and Architectural Association (Norske arkitekters landsforbund) and of the Oslo Handicraft and Industrial Association (Oslo HÃ¥ndverks- og Industriforening).
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