Nicolai Elias Tuxen

Captain Nicolai Elias Tuxen (21 November 1810 – 10 December 1891) was a Royal Danish Navy officer and politician.

He was the technical director of the Orlogsværftet in Copenhagen and a member of the Danish Constituent Assembly.

[1] Tuxen followed the family tradition, enrolling at the Royal Danish Naval Cadet Academy in 1822.

In 1843-45, he was in England, North America, France and the Netherlands to study engineering, hydraulics and other technical advances in ship building.

[1] In 1946, he was appointed as leader of the navy's department for engineering, water and hydraulics.

In 1864, he was also appointed as director of ship building at the Royal Naval Dockyards.

He published a number of written works, including two publications on the Tuxen family (1883 and 1888.