page_title: Jørgen Hansen Koch
section_title: Family and Hans Christian Andersen link
hierarchical_section_title: Jørgen Hansen Koch / Family and Hans Christian Andersen link
caption_attribution_description: English: Ida Koch, née Wulff
context_page_description: Jørgen Hansen Koch was a Neoclassical Danish architect. He was the leader of the national Danish building administration from 1835 and director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1849.
  Koch and especially his wife Ida Koch were close friends of the writer Hans Christian Andersen, who would typically visit the Koch family on Friday evenings.evening
context_section_description: Jørgen Koch was married to Ida Koch née Wulff, a daughter of counter admiral  Peter Frederik Wulff (1774-1848) and Hanne Henriette Weinholt (1784-1836). The couple had three sons: Jørgen Hansen Koch (1829-1919), a head teacher, Peter Frederik Koch (1832-1907), a Justitiarius, and Hans Henrik Koch (1836-1903), a navel officer who reached the rank of vice admiral.
   
  Jørgen and Ida Koch belonged to the circle around Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen had an open invitation to visit the family for dinner on Fridays. Andersen also developed a friendly relationship with their children which continued after the parents' death, as did the dinner arrangement on Fridays. Andersen also new other members of the Koch and Wulff families.
  ]]German Wilhelm Bissen]] created a portrait bust of him in 1835.
  Jørgen Hansen Koch died on 30 January 1860 in Copenhagen and is buried in the city's Western Cemetery.
caption: [Ida Koch, née Wulff, painted by J. K. Lund (1831)
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