Gustav Edvard Brock

He was alongside Carl Christian Vilhelm Liebe regarded as one of the leading lawyers of his time.

In the 1866 trial against C. St. A. Bille, editor of Dagbladet, in which he was accused of lèse-majesté, Brock served as his defense lawyer.

On a study trip to Paris, he showed particular interest in French criminal procedure and rhetorics.

They then lived ain a now demolished building at Frederiksborggade 1 and finally in an apartment at Sankt Annæ Plads 1-3 from 1863.

[3] In 1858, Herman Wilhelm Bissen created a pair of portrait busts of Brock and his wife.