Troels Marstrand
Danish autobiographer (1815–1889)
Troels Marstrand (13 May 1815 – 23 August 1889) was a Danish industrialist.
Early life and education
Marstrand was born on 13 May 1815 in Copenhagen, the son of mechanician Nicolai Jacob Marstrand (1770–1829) and Petra O. Smith (1778–1847). He was the brother of painter Vilhelm Marstrand and naval officer Osvald J. Marstrand. Their father ran a bakery in Silkegade. It was continued by his mother after his father's death in 1820. After his confirmation, Marstrand initially worked in his uncle's office in Skælskør before apprenticing as a baker in Køge.
Career
In 1835 Marstrand travelled to Germany as a journeyman and worked for some time in Berlin.
Back in Denmark in 1837, Marstrand started working as a clerk for the police master in Helsingør before taking over the family's bakery in Silkegade in 1839. Under his management, it commenced a large-scale production of rye bread and hardtack and was expanded in 1850 with a steam mill. The bakery was struck by fire in 1849 and 1856.
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