Education
He had no formal academic or scientific training (although he had attended some lectures by Hans Christian Ørsted).
He had no formal academic or scientific training (although he had attended some lectures by Hans Christian Ørsted).
In the 1840s he had come to realise that production of beer, which had until then been done in numerous small breweries, now had to be based on scientific methods and to be industrialised. Being extremely scrupulous as for the securing of high quality beer, in 1875 he founded the Carlsberg Laboratory. Besides he was a well-known patron of art
After the fire of Frederiksborg Palace in 1859 he paid its rebuilding.
1876 he also founded “Carlsberg-fondet” - the Carlsberg Foundation that became his heir because of family problems of the next years. A reconciliation was however obtained 1886.
This conflict was the theme of a debated Danish television drama series aired in 1997. lieutenant is now housed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a museum founded by him in Copenhagen.
He took much interest in public affairs and supported the National Liberal Party – being gradually more of a conservative – both as a Member of Parliament for some periods between 1854 and 1871 and as a strong supporter of the case of defence.
