Ole Falck Ebbell


Ole Falck Ebbell was a Norwegian architect. He worked primarily in Trondheim, but he was also responsible for the design of buildings in other parts of Norway.

Biography

Ole Falck Ebbell was born in Christiania now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of a lawyer, Ole Falck Ebbell. He studied architecture at the Polytechnicum in Hannover, Germany and engineering at Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland and had several years of work in Oslo before he came to Trondheim. He was a teacher of mechanics and architecture at Trondheim Technical Learning Institution, the precursor to the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1871 and in 1891 he became the teacher of architecture and head of the architectural department. He was a member of the commission for the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. He was also known for several works in different parts of the country.
Ole Falck Ebbell was married to Elisa Brun They had a son Ole-Falk Ebbell, later known as: Ole-Falk Ebbell-Staehelin, who became a civil engineer. He contributed to the completion of the Second Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.

Selected works