page_title: Christian Waagepetersen
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Waagepetersen / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Copy of Portrait of Christian Vaagepetersen by Christian Hornemanns (1765-1844) , probably by Peter Copmann (1794-1850),
context_page_description: Christian Waagepetersen was a Danish wine merchant and patron of the arts. The Waagepetersen House, his home on Store Strandstræde in Copenhagen, was during the 1820s and 1830s a meeting place for many leading figures of the Danish Golden Age. The neoclassical building is now listed.
  He was born Christian Waage Petersen but changed his surname to Waagepetersen on 4 March 1831.
context_section_description: Christian Waage Petersen was born in Copenhagen in 1787, the son of Lorentz Petersen and his wife Sophie Magdalene Worm (1765-1832). His father worked for a Councilman named Waage but later established himself as a wine merchant. Waage Petersen was taught the trade by his father and completed his education at trade offices abroad.
caption: Christian Vaagepetersen
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