Nationality Swiss-Danish | Occupation Merchant | |
Born 5 January 1723 ( 1723-01-05 ) Copenhagen, Denmark Died 8 August 1794, Copenhagen, Denmark Similar Peter Hersleb Classen, Johan Frederik Classen, Frédéric de Coninck | ||
Andreas Bodenhoff (5 January 1723 – 8 August 1794) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and ship builder. He has in particular a name for himself in posterity for reclaiming the area now known as Bodenhoffs Plads on Christianshavn in Copenhagen.
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Biography
Andreas Bodenhoff was born in Copenahgen to skipper Hans Johansen Bodenhoff (c. 1697- primo 1762) and Elisabeth Bacharach (c. 1697–1761). He went to sea in an early age. In 1748, he was licensed as a skipper Copenhagen. 10 years later he owned several ships and property in Copenhagen. He later established a timber business which especially tyhrived from its especially for deliveries to the Navy from 1762. Om 12 November 1765, he was licensed as a grocer. He was a progegé of Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, Surintendant de marine and was in 1767 appointed agent.
on 17 December 1766,Bodenhoff applied for royal permission to establish a shipyard on reclaimed land to the north of Cjristianshavn and west of the area that Andreas Bjørn had reclaimed some ten years prior. On 31 December that same year he was granted a 3.3 ha site free site as well as well as tariff exemption for the timber used for the bulwarks. After reclaiming it, he established a shipyard as well as warehouses. The first ship was laucned in 1771. The shipyard got through a great fire in 1778 in spite of Bodenhoff 's lack of insurrances. In In constructed a number of large ship for the Royal Nacy tod design by Henrik Germer as well as ships for the merchant nevy.
In 1779, Bodenhoff was mentioned as the largest private shipowner in Copenahgen with 28 ships of which 17 is active in foreign trade.
Personal life
Bodenhoff lived at Nyhavn 12. He married Mette Maria Andersdatter on 3 March in St. Nicplas' Church. She died in 1757. He married Mechthilde second time Mathilde Catharina Rohde on 20 June 1759 in Church of Our Saviour. Mathilde Cathrine Bodenhoff died on 3 March 1770.
Andreas Bodenhoff was buried in St. Bicolas' Church but his grave was moved to Assistens Cemetery in 1797 after the church had been destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795.
His son, Andreas Bodenhodd Jr. (1763-1796), took ober the company after his father's death. He married the daughter of his mother's sitster, Gjertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff but fell ill and died in 1796. Gjertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff was then the owner of the company but died under suspicious circumstances in 1798.
Andreas bodenhoff's daughter Gertrud Cathrine Bodenhoff (1765–1814) married Rederik Caspar Conrad Frieboe in 1795.
Legacy
Bodenhoffs Plads in Christianshavn is named after him.