Frantz Gottlieb Bruun (19 March 1832 – 6 October 1908) was a Norwegian priest.
He was born in
Vikør as the son of Fredrik Christian Bruun and Anna Hegelund Krogh Irgens. His mother Anna was a paternal granddaughter of the bishop
Ole Irgens and maternal granddaughter of Johan Daniel Stub.
He was
ordained as a priest in the
Church of Norway
The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...
, but had to leave his office in
Finnmark in 1868 due to health problems. However, he later resurfaced as an orthodox
revivalist preacher based in
Kristiansand and
Kristiania.
[ Several of his texts were printed and published.][
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References
1832 births
1908 deaths
People from Kvam
19th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy
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