Background
Jensen was born in Copenhagen on 27 March 1837.
Jensen was born in Copenhagen on 27 March 1837.
Jensen"s first commissions were the Methodist Jerusalem Church in Copenhagen and several private residential buildings. In the 1870s, he collaborated with Vilhelm Petersen on several projects including Søtorvet for Det Kjøbenhavnske Bygge-Selskab ("The Copenhagen Building Company"). In the beginning of the 1860s, he taught at the Technical Institute in Copenhagen and he was building inspector in Frederiksberg from 1869-1874.
In 1867, he moved to Hamburg where he designed Hansehalle and a number of private homes.
In 1882, he returned to Copenhagen where he continued his work for a few years. He died on 15 April 1890 and is buried in Solbjerg Cemetery.