Anne Cathrine Juel

Danish businessperson
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Quick Facts

IntroDanish businessperson
PlacesDenmark
wasBusinessperson
Work fieldBusiness
Gender
Female
Birth1738
Death1809 (aged 71 years)
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Biography

Painted by Eilif Peterssen in 1892: An evening at the Norwegian Society (En aften i Det norske Selskab). The man with the raised glass in the foreground is Johan Herman Wessel; the man with the red jacket is Johan Nordahl Brun. Behind Wessel is the hostess, Madam Juehl.

Anne Cathrine Juel (1738-1809) was a Danish businesswoman.

Biography

She owned and managed a famous coffee house in Copenhagen, which are known as the meeting place of the Det norske Selskab from 1772 to 1792. She was a muse to many of the members of the society, and several poems are dedicated to her by its members.

In 2005, a memorial plaque is was placed on the Thomas Angell House in Trondheim, where she died.

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