Hans Peter Johan Lyngbye

His father died the same year and his mother was subsequently married to timber merchant Emil Z. Svitzer (1805–1886) in 1849.

His original intention was to study law but from 1852 he was instead educated in his foster father's firm, a combined timber business and salvage company.

[1] Lyngbye was granted citizenship as a wholesale merchant (grosserer) in 1863 and at the same time was made a partner in his father-in-law's firm.

[1] Lyngbye married Emilia Andrea Cathinka Henriette Wilhelmine Svitzer (24 November 1837 – 7 May 1884) on 21 September 1860 in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.

[3] Lyngbye is one of the 50 businessmen seen in Peder Severin Krøyer's monumental 1895 group portrait painting From Copenhagen Stock Exchange.