Harald Lønborg-Jensen

Harald Magnus Lønborg-Jensen (10 October 1871 – 1 November 1941) was a Danish architect known as a productive church and restoration-architect.

Biography Harald Lønborg-Jensen was born at Rødemarkshus near Tureby on the island of Zealand, Denmark. He was trained as a carpenter by his father Fritz Julius Jensen who worked as a building constructor. Lønborg-Jensen later attended technical school, and further attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from where he graduated with a degree in architecture in 1900. He was awarded the Theophilus Hansens Legat, using the funding to travel in Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands in 1904. He also received the Academy's scholarship with which he traveled in Germany, Italy, Greece during 1907-08.

He subsequently found employment at various architect practices and worked for among others Vilhelm Dahlerup, Anton Rosen, Hans J. Holm, Ferdinand Meldahl and Martin Borch before he started his owchitectural practice. Harald Lønborg-Jensens expertise became church buildings. Through four decades he was one of the most used architects for designs of new churches and for restoration. His style was inspired by historical-romantic themes.