Anders Daae (prison director) explained

Birth Date:21 April 1838
Birth Place:Bergen, Norway
Death Place:Kristiania
Nationality:Norwegian

Anders Daae (21 April 1838 – 19 December 1910) was a Norwegian prison director.

Personal life

He was born in Bergen a son of vicar Hans Daae and his wife Anne Johanne Christie.[1] He was a brother of customs inspector Iver Munthe Daae. He was also a first cousin once removed of priest and politician Claus Nils Holtzrod Daae and historian and politician Ludvig Kristensen Daa, and a second cousin of jurist and politician Ludvig Daae, physician Anders Daae, historian Ludvig Daae and Suzannah Daae Ibsen.[2] [3]

In July 1863 in Chicago, USA he married Anne Honoria Hanssen. They had the son Hans Daae, a general in the medical corps.[1]

Career

Daae finished his secondary education at Nissen School in Christiania in 1855, and took the cand.med. degree in 1861. He worked as a physician in various places, among others in the American Civil War. From 1864 to 1887 he ran a physician's office in Kragerø. From 1887 to 1892 he was the director of Trondhjems Strafanstalt, a jail in Trondhjem, and from 1892 he was the director of Bodsfængslet, a notable prison in Kristiania. He died in December 1910 in Kristiania.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Daae, Anders. Norsk biografisk leksikon. Aschehoug. Oslo. Bull, Edvard . Edvard Bull Sr. . Jansen, Einar. 1st. Segelke. Thrap. 1926. 3. 168–169. Norwegian.
  2. Encyclopedia: 2007. Daae. Store norske leksikon. Henriksen, Petter . Kunnskapsforlaget. Oslo. Norwegian. 17 January 2010.
  3. Encyclopedia: Daae family tree. Norsk biografisk leksikon. Aschehoug. Oslo. Bull, Edvard . Edvard Bull Sr. . . 1st. 1926. 3. 156. Norwegian.