Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland

Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland ( – ) was a Norwegian architect, professor, and author.

Personal life Jens Kielland was a member of the prominent Kielland family. He was born in Stavanger to parish priest and politician Jacob Kielland (1841–1915) and his wife Diderikke Jørgine (1842–1918), née Monrad. His grandfather was Jens Zetlitz Kielland, and through him, Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland was the nephew of painter Kitty Lange Kielland and novelist Alexander Kielland. He had five sisters and four brothers, all of them younger than he was, although one died young.

Kielland was a student at the Royal Arts School in Kristiania (1884-86), while attending a Master's degree and assisted at an architectural office. From 1887-90 he studied at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin.

In April 1896 he married pianist Anna Magdalena Cathrine Christie (1871–1948), daughter of jurist Hans Langsted Christie. They had two children,

From 1912 to 1918 he was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondhjem. During this period, he published books including By og bygd i Stavanger amt (1915, together with Anders Beer Wilse). From 1919 to 1921 he published Norske hus og hjem in four volumes. He later worked as an architect in Oslo. He died in that city in 1926, aged 60.

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