Schak August Steenberg Bull (10 May 1858 – 25 January 1956) was a Norwegian architect.

Personal life

He was born in Årstad

Årstad (municipality)

Årstad is a former municipality in Hordaland, Norway.The parish of Aarstad was established as a municipality 1 January 1838 . It remained a separate municipality until 1 July 1915, when it, as the second of six municipalities over the years, was merged with Bergen, increasing the area of Bergen...

 as the son of Colonel

Colonel

Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

 Jens Munthe Bull (1815-1905) and his wife Johanne Margrethe Hagerup (1817-1888). His brother Edvard Hagerup Bull was a judge and politician, and his maternal grandfather was politician Edvard Hagerup

Edvard Hagerup

Edvard Hagerup was a Norwegian solicitor and politician. He was born in Kristiansand, the son of a bishop Eiler Hagerup b. 1718 and Edvardine Magdalene Margarethe Christie ....

. Also, he was a nephew of composer Ole Bull

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

 and architect Georg Andreas Bull

Georg Andreas Bull

Georg Andreas Bull was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Christiania for forty years. He was among the leading architects in the country, and left his mark on Norwegian building history both as a creative architect, and through his measurement studies and archeological...

, an uncle of composer Sverre Hagerup Bull

Sverre Hagerup Bull

Sverre Hagerup Bull was a Norwegian banker, composer and writer.He was born in Kristiania as a son of politician Edvard Hagerup Bull. He was a nephew of architect Schak Bull, and a grandnephew of painter Knud Bull, violinist Ole Bull and architect Georg Andreas Bull.He wrote several operettes...

 and a cousin of architect Henrik Bull

Henrik Bull

Henrik Bull was a Norwegian architect and designer. Among his works are the Paulus Church at Grünerløkka in Oslo, the National Theater, the Historical Museum in Oslo, and the Government Building. He also designed coins for Norges Bank, and participated at the Kristiania Jubilée exhibition at...

 and composer Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

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In April 1884 he married Ivarna Berle.

Career

He took his education at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

ETH Zurich

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....

. Having graduated in 1879, he returned to Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway

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...

 to work as an architect. He was responsible for several important buildings, including Troldhaugen

Troldhaugen

Troldhaugen was the home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg’s villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife's gravesite....

, the residence of his cousin Edvard Grieg, several churches and commercial buildings. He mainly adhered to the architectural style historicism

Historicism (art)

Historicism refers to artistic styles that draw their inspiration from copying historic styles or artisans. After neo-classicism, which could itself be considered a historicist movement, the 19th century saw a new historicist phase marked by a return to a more ancient classicism, in particular in...

 before 1900, and Jugendstil

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...

after 1900. From 1914 he formed a companionship with his son Jens Munthe Bull.

Bull was also a member of Bergen city council.

In total he was the architect of 186 buildings in Bergen, as well as several in other parts of the country, although many of these have been lost in fires. He died in 1956 in Bergen, 98 years old.