page_title: Svane Apotek (Copenhagen)
section_title: The Benzon family, 1849–1067
hierarchical_section_title: Svane Apotek (Copenhagen) / History / The Benzon family, 1849–1067
caption_attribution_description: English: Pharmacist Alfred Benzon's pharmacy exhibited at the World's Fair of 1862 in London. The pharmacy was described along with this illustration in the Danish weekly Illustreret Tidende, on June 29, 1862.
context_page_description: Svane Apotek, which existed from 166+ to 1994, was one of the first pharmacies to open in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was in 1849 acquired by Alfred Nicolai Bentzon and was owned by the Benzon family until 1967. Its former building. a five-storey, Functionalist property located at the corner of Østergade and Ny Østergade, was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency in 1992.
context_section_description: Alfred Nicolai Bentzon acquired the pharmacy in 1849. He established Alfred Benzon A/S . The building on Østergade was replaced by a new one in 1877.
  Alfred Bentzon's two sons, Alfred Benzon and Valdemar Benzon, took over the pharmacy after their father's death in 1884. Valdemar Benzon died in 1827 and Alfred Benzon died in 1932. Niels Benzon replaced the old building on Østergade with a new one that was completed in 1934. It was designed by the architect Bent Helweg-Møller in collaboration ith the engineers C. N. Nøkkentved and Svend Friis Jespersen.
caption: Medicine cabinet from Alfred Benzon's pharmacy
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