Christian Andreas Irgens

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


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