Knut Hjalmar Kumlien (17 March 1837 – 12 October 1897) was a

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Biography

Kumlien was born in the parish of Härlunda in

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, Sweden. He was the son of Ludvig Kumlien and Petronella Johanna Rhodin. Kumlien graduated at

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in 1856 and then continued his studies at the Technical Engineering School at Holzmünden in

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between 1858 and 1860. He then worked as infrastructure architect with Adolf W. Edelsvärd, the State Railways architects office between 1860 and 1872. Then he ran his their own firm with his brother Axel F. Kumlien (1833–1913). The two brothers are authors of numerous buildings in central Stockholm, among others, part of the

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building, Villa Täcka Udden on

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and some 20 villas and town houses north of

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. Axel and Hjalmar Kumlien also designed church building include St. Paul Church in Mariatorget, Andreas church in Högbergsgatan in Stockholm, and Ljusterö church, a unique wooden church rebuilt in 1894. They designed the Phoenix Hotel in

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, Finland, which completed construction in 1878.

Personal life

In 1868, he married Johanna Beata Charlotta Lindståhl. He was the father of architect Axel Emanuel Kumlien (1882–1971).

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Literature

*Kumlien, Hjalmar (1894), ''Swedish manor houses and villas by Swedish architects,'' Stockholm: Norstedt. Libris 8222486 *Fredric Bedoire and Henrik O. Andersson (1977), ''Stockholm buildings: a book on architecture and cityscape in Stockholm,'' (3rd edition). Stockholm: Prisma. Libris 7406664 1837 births 1897 deaths Chalmers University of Technology alumni 19th-century Swedish architects Swedish ecclesiastical architects People from Skara Municipality {{Sweden-architect-stub