Joseph Owen

Joseph Owen (15 May 1789 – 7 September 1862) was a British-Danish industrialist. He founded on Amager in 1746.

Early life and education Owen was born on 15 May 1789, in Chelsea, London, the son of lawyer Charles Owen (c. 1765 – 1805) and Mary Newman (died 1793). He went to school in Westminster and received a commercial education in Danzig and Manchester.

Career Owen began working for Ryberg & Co. circa 1813. A few years later he established as a wine merchant. In 1821, he founded a mill which manufactured bone char for the city's sugar refineries. The activities were later expanded with the production of fertilizers. In 1826 he purchased on Amager and in 1831 established the first production of sulfuric acid in the Nordic countries.

In 1846 he was the driving force behind the foundation of A/S and served as the company's first managing director. was continued by his younger son Frederick Owen.

was located at Amagerbrogade 11. The factory was destroyed by fire in 1890. It was sold to the Danish Sulphuric Acid and Superphosphate Plant and moved to Kastrup in the early 1900s. The site on Amagerbrogade was sold to Hermann Ebert, founder of nearby Eberts Villaby. He demolished the factory and constructed an apartment building at the site in 1906. The building was designed by K. E. Mandrup Poulsen. It is called and a relief above one of the doors commemorates the long industrial history of the site.