Christian_A._Irgens

Christian Andreas Irgens

Christian Andreas Irgens

Norwegian businessman and politician

Christian Andreas Irgens (6 July 1833 - 15 April 1915) was a Norwegian businessman and Member of parliament.[1]

Biography

He was born in Bergen, Norway as the son of Johan Daniel Stub Irgens and Susanne Cathrine Møller. Through his father he was a distant relative of Jens Stub who was a member of the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814.[2] [3][4]

Irgens was a member of the Bergen City Council. At that time he worked as a businessman operating the Bjørsvik Flour Mill (Bjørsvigs Melforretning) on Osterfjorden outside Bergen. He had been a deputy representative in 1874–1878 and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1895, representing the rural constituency Søndre Bergenhus Amt (today named Hordaland). [5] [6]

Irgens married twice; Marcel Ingeborg Marie Wesenberg (1836-1866), Sally Camilla Jahnsen (1846-1913). He died during 1915 in the Fjøsanger area of Bergen.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Bjørn Steenstrup. "Irgens, Christian Andreas". Hvem er Hvem?. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  2. [2]
    Bjørn Steenstrup. "Irgens, Johan Daniel Stub". Hvem er Hvem?. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Irgens". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
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    Jon Gunnar Arntzen. "Irgens". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
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    Bjørn Steenstrup. "Industristaden Bjørsvik". Digitalt Fortalt. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  6. [6]
    Christian Andreas Irgens — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
  7. [7]
    Genealogy Archived January 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine


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