J. C. Jacobsen

Jacob Christian Jacobsen ( born September 2, 1811 in Copenhagen, † April 30, 1887 in Rome), often also called abbreviated JC Jacobsen, was a Danish industrialist who was active as a philanthropist in the promotion of science and as a patron of the arts. He founded the Carlsberg brewery one of the currently biggest beer producer worldwide and with the Carlsberg Laboratory, the Carlsberg Foundation and the resultant from his private art collection museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek various facilities that the scientific and cultural life in Denmark up to the present shape.

Life

Jacob Christian Jacobsen was born in 1811 in Copenhagen. He took over his father's brewery in 1835 and developed it from 1844 under the name " Carlsberg Bryggerier Kjøbenhavn " gradually to a large company for the industrial production of beer. He sat, in contrast to the prevailing small breweries, and in particular the use of scientific knowledge to ensure a consistent quality and efficient production as well as on German brewing traditions with which he had become familiar with a stay in Munich. The company was continued after Jacobsen's death by his son Carl Jacobsen and is currently one of the biggest and most famous beer producer in the world.

In the social area Jacobsen supported the national liberal trend in Danish politics and was their representative 1854-1871 several times as a member of parliament. In addition, he worked in various areas of philanthropic and as a patron of the arts. He financed the reconstruction of 1859 severely damaged by a fire Frederiksborg Castle. His extensive private art collection in 1888 converted into a museum by his son, which still exists in the present as the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

In 1876, Jacobsen founded by a gift of shares in the brewery Carlsberg Foundation, which he later left his heritage. Purpose of the foundation, which holds at least 51 percent of the shares in accordance with its disposal at the Carlsberg brewery, was founded in 1875 initially to finance the Carlsberg Laboratory, a research facility in the field of chemistry and physiology. Later, the Foundation also took over the maintenance of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, the existing since 1878 National Historic Museum at Frederiksborg Castle and, since the merger with the Tuborg Foundation in 1991, the promotion of social projects and other activities with social benefit.

Jacobsen died in 1887 in Rome during a vacation trip through Italy.