Bernt Anker Collet (8 August 1803 - 2 February 1857) was a Norwegian-born Danish landowner who founded the Danish branch of the Norwegian

Collett family Collett or Collet is a Norwegian family of English origin, descended from English-born merchant James Collett (born 1655 in London, died 1727 in Christiania), who settled in Christiania in 1683. He married Karen Leuch, and died as the richest ...

. He owned Lundbygård from 1846.

Biography

Bent Anker Collett was born into the wealthy

on 8 August 1803. His parents were businessman and judge Peter Collett and Ellertine Severine Bendeke. He married Emilie Henriette Christense Rørbye. They had two children, the daughter Eilertine Eleonore Collet(born 1834) and the son Peter Ferdinand Collet (born 1836). He moved to Denmark with his family in 1857 after inheriting Lundbygård on the southern part of

Zealand Zealand ( ) is the largest and most populous islands of Denmark, island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size) at 7,031 km2 (2715 sq. mi.). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 Januar ...

from her aunt Anne Cathrine Arbo née Collett. It had been acquired by her late husband

Peter Nicolaj Arbo Peter Nicolaj Arbo (16 November 1768 – 12 September 1827) was a Norwegian-Danish timber trader and landowner. He owned the estates Aldershvile, Lundbygård and Oremandsgaard in Denmark and Gulskogen Manor in Norway. Early life Arbo was ...

in 1824.

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