Schak August Steenberg Bull (10 May 1858 – 25 January 1956) was a Norwegian architect.

Personal life

He was born in Årstad as the son of

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Jens Munthe Bull (1815-1905) and his wife Johanne Margrethe Hagerup (1817-1888).Schak Bull genealogy
/ref> His brother Edvard Hagerup Bull was a judge and politician, and his maternal grandfather was politician

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. Also, he was a nephew of composer

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and architect

Georg Andreas Bull Georg Andreas Bull (26 March 1829 – 1 February 1917) was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo) for forty years. He was among the major architects in the country, and performed surveying studies and ...

, an uncle of composer Sverre Hagerup Bull and a cousin of architect

Henrik Bull Henrik Bull (28 March 1864 – 2 June 1953) was a Norwegian architect and designer. Among his works are the Paulus Church at Grünerløkka in Oslo, the Nationaltheatret, National Theater, the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Historical Muse ...

and composer

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. In April 1884 he married Ivarna Berle.

Career

Schak Bull graduated from the ''

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'' or ''ETH Zürich'' (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) in 1879, after which he returned to

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to work as an architect. He was responsible for several important buildings, including

Troldhaugen Troldhaugen is the former home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg's villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife ...

, the residence of his cousin Edvard Grieg, several churches and commercial buildings. He adhered mainly to the architectural style

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before 1900, and

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after 1900. From 1914 he formed a partnership with his son Jens Munthe Bull. Bull was also a member of Bergen city council. In total he was the architect of 186 buildings in Bergen, as well as several in other parts of the country, although many of these have been lost in fires. He died in 1956 in Bergen, at the age of 98 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bull, Schak 1858 births 1956 deaths Architects from Bergen ETH Zurich alumni Politicians from Bergen