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the crypt , jesus church as founder of '' carlsberg '' copenhagen 30 april 1887 danish 2 september 1811 j c jacobsen.jpg j. c. jacobsen
 j. c. jacobsen brewer and industrialist
j. c. jacobsen

jacob christian jacobsen -lrb- 2 september 1811 -- 30 april 1887 -rrb- , mostly known as j. c. jacobsen , was a danish industrialist and philanthropist best known for founding the brewery carlsberg .
he had no formal academic or scientific training -lrb- although he had attended some lectures by hans christian Ørsted -rrb- .
in the 1840s he had come to realise that production of beer , which had until then been done in numerous small breweries , now had to be based on scientific methods and to be industrialised .
starting in 1844 , he established his brewery carlsberg -lrb- named after his son , carl jacobsen -rrb- , in valby on the outskirts of copenhagen , on a site where it has remained since .
being extremely scrupulous as for the securing of high quality beer , in 1875 he founded the carlsberg laboratory .
he took much interest in public affairs and supported the national liberal party -- being gradually more of a conservative -- both as a member of parliament for some periods between 1854 and 1871 and as a strong supporter of the case of defence .
besides he was a well-known patron of art .
after the fire of frederiksborg palace in 1859 he paid its rebuilding .
1876 he also founded `` carlsberg-fondet '' - the carlsberg foundation that became his heir because of family problems of the next years .
a bitter conflict with his son carl led to the latter 's foundation of the ny carlsberg -lrb- new carlsberg -rrb- brewery 1882 .
a reconciliation was however obtained 1886 .
this conflict was the theme of a debated danish tv drama series aired in 1997 .
his son carl jacobsen created one of the largest private art collections of his time .
it is now housed in the ny carlsberg glyptotek , a museum founded by him in copenhagen .
