Christian Fürst was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 architect.

Personal life

He was born in Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway. He was a brother of physician Valentin Fürst, Sr. (1870-1961) and architect Hans Backer Fürst (1877- 1945) . Through the former, he was an uncle of film director Walter Fyrst ( 1901-1993) and physician Valentin Fürst, Jr .

Career

He took his education at Kristiania Technical School

Oslo University College

Oslo University College , Norwegian: Høgskolen i Oslo is the largest state university college in Norway, with more than 11,000 students and approx. 1100 employees...

 and the Technical University of Berlin

Technical University of Berlin

The Technische Universität Berlin is a research university located in Berlin, Germany. Translating the name into English is discouraged by the university, however paraphrasing as Berlin Institute of Technology is recommended by the university if necessary .The TU Berlin was founded...

, graduating from the latter in 1882. He was then an assistant of Johannes Otzen to 1885. After a stay in Kristiania, Fürst returned to Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 to study at the now-defunct Königliche Akademie der Künste from 1889 to 1891. He was also an assistant of Paul Wallot

Paul Wallot

Paul Wallot was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894...

 until 1892, when he returned to Norway. He opened an architects' firm in Kristiania in 1896, and his brother, Hans Backer Fürst, became a partner in 1902.

Among his notable works are the Trinity Church in Arendal

Arendal

is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. Arendal belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet.The town of Arendal is the administrative center the municipality and also of Aust-Agder county...

, Sagene

Sagene

Sagene is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. The area became part of the city of Oslo in 1859.The name Sagene itself is the plural of the Norwegian word for "saw", reflecting all the old industrial mechanical saws powered by the river Akerselvain this area in the 19th and early 20th...

 church and Tostrupgården (Tostrup Yard), a monumental business premises on Karl Johans Gate in Oslo, the latter built 1896-1898 in a cooperation with Waldemar Hansteen

Waldemar Hansteen

Albert Waldemar Hansteen was a Norwegian architect.Born in Christiania, he worked mainly in his hometown and Skien. He shared responsibility for the Norwegian contribution to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago....

 and Torolf Prytz

Torolf Prytz

Torolf Prytz was a Norwegian architect, goldsmith and politician for the Liberal Party. He led the goldsmith company J. Tostrup from 1890 to 1938, having inherited it from his grandfather-in-law Jacob Tostrup...

. He also participated in the rebuilding of Ålesund

Ålesund

is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture....

 following the 1904 Ålesund Fire

Ålesund Fire

The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on 23 January 1904. It destroyed almost the whole city centre, built mostly of wood like the majority of Norwegian towns in that era.-Fire:...

.