People from Kragero - Johan Christian Heuch, OLE Thomesen, Christian Gierloff, Knud Wefald, Tellef Dahll Schweigaard, Thomes Thomesen (Paperback)

Chapters: Johan Christian Heuch, Ole Thomesen, Christian Gierloff, Knud Wefald, Tellef Dahll Schweigaard, Thomes Thomesen, Johan Christian Heuch, Sr., Inge Debes, Peter Olaf Debes, Lars Anton Nicolai Larsen-Naur, Einar Olsen, Gunn Olsen, Per Hansson, Peter Andreas Heuch. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johan Christian Heuch, often referred to as J. C. Heuch (23 March 18381904) was a Norwegian bishop and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Kragero as the son of merchant and politician Johan Christian Heuch (17941843) and his wife Christine Elisabeth Bonnevie (18031863). His paternal grandfather Peter Andreas Heuch (17561825) was among the wealthiest persons in Southern Norway. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Honoratus Bonnevie and a first cousin of Jacob Aall Bonnevie; the latter was the father of zoologist Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie. In December 1861 he married Kirsten Anna Janette Elieson (18391913), a daughter of jurist and politician John Collett Postumus Elieson. Direct descendants of J. C. Heuch include ceramicist Hanne Heuch. Despite the merchant background of his family, J. C. Heuch embarked on an academic career. His father died before J. C. turned five years years old, and at the age of fifteen he moved to Christiania to be educated. He finished his secondary education in 1856, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.theol. degree in 1861. Among his lecturers at the University was the orthodox Lutheran Gisle Johnson. Because of health issues Heuch did not intend to work as a clergyman; however he was headhunted by priest and writer Jorgen Moe, and worked under him as a curate in Bragernes. He was ordained in 1865. In 1869 he followed Moe to his new position in Vestre Ak...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2227804