Peter Anton Cortsen

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Peter Anton Cortsen (often PA Cortsen for short ; * July 31, 1845 in Copenhagen ; † November 2, 1912 there ) was a Danish ship carpenter and architect .

Life

Peter Anton Cortsen was born to Henning Cortsen and his wife Grethe Pedersdatter. On February 15, 1878 he married Ellen Dorthea Sophia Hannemann (1838–1908). Very little is known about his life. He mainly worked as a ship carpenter for Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (KGH). From 1903 he designed several state buildings in almost all cities in Greenland , mainly residential buildings, but also hospitals of the old church in Tasiilaq . This made him the first architect to work across the board for Greenland. He died on November 2, 1912 at the age of 67. Helge Bojsen-Møller , who designed a Greenlandic building for the first time in 1909, began in 1913 to design Greenlandic commercial, church and school buildings on a grand scale and can therefore be seen as the successor to Peter Anton Cortsen.

Works (selection)

The old church in Tasiilaq (designed in 1903, consecrated in 1908)

Some of the buildings cannot be assigned to Cortsen with complete certainty.

  • 1903: Commercial assistant apartment in Upernavik
  • 1903: Nuuk Hospital
  • 1903/08: Church in Tasiilaq
  • 1904: Ilulissat hospital
  • 1905: Commercial assistant apartment in Aasiaat
  • 1906: Commercial assistant / doctor's apartment in Nuuk
  • 1907: Doctor's apartment in Uummannaq (uncertain)
  • 1907: Doctor's apartment / hospital in Sisimiut
  • 1909: Commercial chief's apartment in Uummannaq (uncertain)
  • 1909: Pastor's apartment in Qeqertarsuaq
  • 1909: School in Qaqortoq
  • 1909: Commercial administrator's apartment in Nanortalik
  • 1910: Doctor's apartment in Maniitsoq (uncertain)
  • 1912: Speckhaus in Upernavik

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church records Vor Frelsers Sogn Born 1840–1845 (p. 230)
  2. ↑ a b Church records Frihavns Sogn who died 1905–1919 (p. 75)
  3. ↑ Church records Vor Frelsers Sogn married 1867–1890 (p. 87)
  4. ^ Jens Christian Madsen: Offentligt byggeri i Grønland 1900-1946 . Atuagkat, 2007, ISBN 978-87-90133-69-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Cortsen, Peter Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish ship carpenter and architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1912
Place of death Copenhagen