Aasulv Olsen Bryggesaa Explained

Office:Minister of Education and Church Affairs
Term Start:31 January 1913
Term End:26 October 1915
Primeminister:Gunnar Knudsen
Predecessor:Edvard Liljedahl
Successor:Jørgen Løvland
Office2:Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start2:1 January 1906
Term End2:31 December 1915
Constituency2:Lyngdal
Term Start3:1 January 1900
Term End3:1 January 1906
Constituency3:Lister and Mandal
Birth Name:Aasulv Olsen Bryggesaa
Birth Date:25 April 1856
Birth Place:Hægebostad, West Agder, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
Death Place:Hægebostad, West Agder, Norway
Children:Berte
Party:Liberal

Aasulv Olsen Bryggesaa (25 April 1856 – 3 April 1922) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the constituency Lister og Mandal amt in 1900, and was re-elected on four consecutive occasions. When the second cabinet Knudsen assumed office on 31 January 1913, Bryggesaa was appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs. He left cabinet on 25 October 1915.[1]

Born in Eiken, he was a member of Hægebostad municipal council and served as mayor for some time. For an unknown period he was a member of the county committee, a forerunner of the county council.[1]

He took a teacher's education in Holt in 1877. From 1878 he worked on the family farm Bryggesaa in Eiken. He also worked as a teacher in Hægebostad for six years. In addition he served on various public committees, both locally and nationally.[1]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10451 Aasulv Olsen Bryggesaa