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

Personal life

He was born in

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a son of vicar Hans Daae and his wife Anne Johanne Christie. 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

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, and a second cousin of jurist and politician Ludvig Daae, physician Anders Daae, historian Ludvig Daae and Suzannah Daae Ibsen. In July 1863 in

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, USA he married Anne Honoria Hanssen. They had the son Hans Daae, a general in the medical corps.

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

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. From 1864 to 1887 he ran a physician's office in

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. From 1887 to 1892 he was the director of ''Trondhjems Strafanstalt'', a jail in

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, and from 1892 he was the director of '' Bodsfængslet'', a notable prison in Kristiania. He died in December 1910 in Kristiania.

References

1838 births 1910 deaths Norwegian prison administrators Physicians from Oslo 19th-century Norwegian physicians {{crime-bio-stub