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Biography
Magnus Gottfrid Steendorff (November 25, 1855 – April 26, 1945) was a Swedish architect of partly Danish ancestry.
Background
Magnus Steendorff was born in Copenhagen as the only son of Danish painter Christian Wilhelm Steendorff (1817–1904) and his wife Anna Ulrica Öhrström (1816–1891) from Sweden. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, but settled in Sweden in 1887 becoming a Swedish citizen three years later.
Career
Notable buildings by Steendorff include two churches: the majestic neogothic church of Undenäs, also known as the "Cathedral of Tiveden" (Swedish:Tivedens katedral) (1892–1894) and the new Stora Hammar Church (Swedish:Stora Hammar nya kyrka) in Höllviken (1891–1895) designed in Danish Renaissance style.
Steendorff also designed the Institution of Johannesberg, an asylum outside Mariestad, a bank building in Skövde (1893–1894) and the new library of the University College of Jönköping (originally built as the foundry of a mechanical company in 1914).
Personal life
Steendorff was married to Sofie Brunskog (1855–1948). He was the brother-in-law of Swedish-American linguistics professor August Hjalmar Edgren (1840–1903).