Vilhelm Friederichsen


Vilhelm Heinrich Friederichsen was a Danish architect.

Early life and education

Friederichsen was born in Copenhagen, the son of carpenter Peter Wilhelm Friederichsen and Helene Theresia Seerup. He apprenticed as a carpenter and attended the Technical Institute in Læderstræde in the winter time for three years before enrolling at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1856 where he studied under Gustav Friedrich Hetsch and Christian Hansen. He won the small silver medal in 1864 and graduated in 1865.

Career

Friederichsen and Peter Christian Bønecke won third prize in the competition for the new Royal Danish Theatre in 1871 and specialized in the design of hospitals. He designed the first phase of the Øresund Hospital in 1875-76 and the Blegdam Hospital in 1878-80. In 1883-85, he designed the Sankt Johannes Stiftelse complexes on both sides of Ruesgade for which he received the C. F. Hansen Medal in 1886. He also designed Præstø County's hospital in Stege in 1892 and extensions of Næstved Hospital in 1893-94. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, he was involved in the preparation of the relocation of Frederiks Hospital and Fødselsstiftelsen but his 1892 Rigshospitalet proposal was not selected.
Friederichsen was also the designer of a large number of public and private buildings in the new neighbourhoods that developed on the outskirts of Copenhagen towards the end of the century. He served as Building Inspector in Copenhagen's 1st District in 1875-89. He designed some of the first slaughterhouses in the first phase of the new Cattle Market in 1881-83.

Personal life

He married Anna Kirstine Katharine Madsen m a daughter of later fire department director Niels Madsen and Mariane Sarine Johansen, on 26 July 1867 in Frederiksberg.

List of works