Carl Bugge (13 September 1881 – 7 April 1968) was a Norwegian geologist.

Biography

Bugge was born at

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in Telemark, Norway. His parents were Johan Carl Bugge (1847–1902) and Theodora Christine Drolsum (1854–1882). His half-brother Arne Bugge became a state geologist. He grew up at

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. Bugge started in 1900 at the University of Kristiania and graduated (''cand.min.'') as a mineralogist in 1903. During 1906 he continued his studies in

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. He was appointed administrator (') of the Royal Mint at

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from 1907 to 1921. In 1918 he became ''

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'' on the basis of his doctoral thesis ''Kongsbergfeltets geologi''. He was appointed director-general of the Norwegian Geological Survey for thirty years, from 1921 until his retirement in 1951. In 1954 he published the geological summary work ''Den kaledonske fjellkjede i Norge''. He was married in 1911 to Catharine Werenskiold (1883–1968), daughter of painter Erik Werenskiold (1855–1938) and Sofie Marie Stoltenberg Thomesen (1849–1926). His son Jens Andreas Werenskiold Bugge (1913–1984) was a professor of Geology at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top univers ...

References

1881 births 1968 deaths People from Notodden University of Oslo alumni 20th-century Norwegian geologists {{Norway-scientist-stub