Forlag: Lindhardt og Ringhof
- Type: Ebog
- Format: epub
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Sprog:
Engelsk
- ISBN-13: 9788711985274
- Udgave: 1
- Udgivelsesdato: 10-06-2020
- Udgiver: Lindhardt og Ringhof
- Fagredaktør: Elise H. Nørholm
- Sideantal: 272 Sider
- Filtype: epub
- Filversion: 3.0
- Filformat: Reflowable
- Filstørrelse: 88270 KB
- Kopibeskyttelse: DigitalVandmaerkning
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Laurits Andersen was a Danish tobacco entrepreneur and prominent businessman in China from the 1880s until his death in 1928. He was the manager of the American trading firm Mustard & Co. in Shanghai, introducing machine-produced cigarettes to the Chinese market in the late 1800s, at a time when cigarettes were gaining enormous popularity elsewhere in the world. He attained late fame in his native Denmark when shortly before his death he donated a large sum of money to the National Museum, which he had visited frequently as a boy.
Laurits Andersen was born in a small village near Elsinore, Denmark, in 1849, and grew up in Copenhagen where he worked as an apprentice at a machine works. From 1870, he lived in East Asia, experiencing wars and revolutions and forming close bonds with the political elite in Imperial China. Laurits Andersen is a role model for later generations, displaying the courage to seek ones fortunes overseas, and showing that with drive, diligence, and willpower, and a preparedness to venture down untrodden paths, one can achieve ambitious goals.