Anders Daae (prison director)

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

Anders Daae
Born(1838-04-21)21 April 1838
Bergen, Norway
Died19 December 1910(1910-12-19) (aged 72)
NationalityNorwegian

Personal life

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Thrap, Segelke (1926). "Daae, Anders". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 168–169.
  2. ^ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Daae". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  3. ^ Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar, eds. (1926). "Daae family tree". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 156.