Lauritz Peter Holmblad
| Lauridz Peter Holmblad | |
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L. P. Holmblad
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| Born |
8 July 1815 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died |
16 November 1890 (aged 75) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Occupation | businessman, industrialist |
Lauritz Peter Holmblad (8 July 1815 – 16 November 1890), usually referred to as L. P. Holmblad, was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. He belonged to the circle around Carl Frederik Tietgen, co-founding several of his companies.
Holmblad is associated with Amager, Copenhagen, where Holmbladsgade is named after him.
L. P. Holmblad was born into a family of industrialists on 8 July 1815. His great-grandfather, Jacob Holmblad, was a Swedish dyer who emigrated to Denmark in about 1766, introduced new production methods at the Royal Textile Factory where he used Rubia plants to produce the red dye for the Royal Life Guards' gala uniforms. In 1777 he obtained a royal privilege to set up his own dye factory. It was situated in Sølvgade (No. 38, now Holmblad House) but later moved to the corner of Gothersgade and Regnegade. The enterprise was later taken over by his son, Lauridz Holmblad, who also founded a soap factory in 1805 and started Denmark's first real production of paint in 1819. L. P. Holmblad's father Jacob Holmblad inherited the soap factory in 1827 while his uncle Carl Frederik Holmblad took over the paint factory, the later Sadolin & Holmblad.
Jacob Holmblad's soap factory on the corner of Gothersgade and Regnegade also comprised productions of both lacquer and playing cards. His activities also comprised a glue factory and a marrow oil factory in Amager.
After his father's death in 1837, L. P. Holmblad took over the management of the companies on behalf of his mother. In 1841, he established a production of whale oil. After his mother ceded the companies to him in 1842, he also founded a candle factory, which was the first in Denmark to use stearin in the manufacture of candles. It was a great success and had to be expanded in 1847. In 1880, L. P. Holmblad moved their production of stearin candles to Blegdamsvej, where they had acquired O.F. Asp's candle factory which was expanded by Hans Jørgen Holm. Holmblad also built a new factory in Amager in 1880.
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