Carl Adolph Feilberg

Carl Adolph Feilberg (20 August 1810 – 8 January 1896) was a Danish businessman. He founded Falkonergårdens Fabrikker on the Falkonergården estate in Frederiksberg in 1842. He was the paternal uncle to the Australian indigenous-rights activist Carl Adolph Feilberg, the Danish priest and folklorist Henning Frederik Feilberg, the planter and photographer Kristen Feilberg, and the journalist and restaurateur Frederik Laurentius Feilberg (1858-1917), aka "Lorry" Feilberg.

Feilberg was born on 20 August 1810 in Copenhagen, the son of Henning Frederik Feilberg and Louise Brummer. His father was a high-ranking civil servant who worked for the Bank of Denmark. He studied engineering (Cand. Polyt.) at the College of Advanced Technology.

Feilberg bourh Falkonergården, a former royal falconry. He established a soap and vax candle factory under the name Galkonergårdens Fabrikker at the site in 1842.

Feilberg married Albertine Hagen. The couple had no children. His brother, Nicolai Laurentius Feilberg, a priest, was the brother-in-law of the painter Christen Købke. Købke painted his portrait and painted his last nature studies on the Galkonérgården estate.

Feilberg died on 8 January 1896. He is buried in Frederiksberg Old Cemetery.