Jens Bang (c. 1575 - 20 February 1644) was a wealthy Danish merchant.

Biography

Born in

Horsens Horsens () is a city on the east coast of the Jutland region of Denmark. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 64,418 (1 January 2025) and the municipality's population is 97,921 (), making it the List of cities and ...

, he was the son of merchant Oluf Bang. His older half-brother was the mayor,

Jørgen Olufsen Jørgen Olufsen was a Danish politician. Olufsen built Jørgen Olufsen's House, Denmark's best preserved merchant's mansion in the Renaissance style. The son of the Horsens merchant, Hans Felthuus, and his wife, Sidsel Jørgensdatter, he was named ...

. Bang arrived in

Aalborg Aalborg or Ålborg ( , , ) is Denmark's List of cities and towns in Denmark, fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an Urban area, urban populati ...

at the age of 22 where he was apprenticed to a merchant. He purchased a large plot of land in 1621 on the corner of Algade and Østerå where, in 1623-24, he built a large stone house, which came to be known as Jens Bang's House. He may have been trying to out-do his older brother, Olufsen, who had built a large stone house in 1616 at 25 Østerå, which came to be known as

Jørgen Olufsen's House Jørgen Olufsen's House () is located in Aalborg, Denmark. Built in 1616 on the Østerå River, Østerå, a wide-mouth stream which became the city's harbour. Its current address is Østerågade 25. The three-storey house is Denmark's best preserve ...

. He married Mette, daughter of Knud Jensen, the eel-salter. Bang died in Aalborg in 1644.

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;Bibliography * 1570s births 1644 deaths 17th-century Danish businesspeople People from Horsens Businesspeople from Aalborg Danish merchants {{Denmark-bio-stub

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