Johan Christian Heuch Bugge (15 April 1883 – 3 July 1972) was a Norwegian barrister.

Personal life

He was born in

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to Christian August Bugge (1853–1928) and Dina Alette Danielsen. This was the

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lineage of the Bugge family. Heuch Bugge was a nephew of Supreme Court Justice Geirulf Bugge, civil servant Erling Bugge and businessperson Jens Andreas Hjorth Bugge, brother of art historian Anders Ragnar Bugge and first cousin of tax director Karl Ludvig Bugge. He married Eldbjørg Due, daughter of stock exchange commissioner Reidar Due (1862–1953), in 1918. They had three daughters. He was also an uncle of politician

Reidar Due Reidar Due (4 November 1922 – 29 October 2021) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag in 1977, and was re-elected on three occasions. He had previously served as a deput ...

Career

After middle school in

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he attended school in

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and

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, Germany, before moving to

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. He finished his secondary education at

Frogner School Frogner School ( and subsequently ''Frogner Realskole og Gymnas'', commonly known as ''Frogner skole'') was a secondary school at Frogner in Oslo, Norway. The school was a continuation of the Gjertsen School, which had been founded in 1869. Gjer ...

in 1901, took officer's training in 1902 and graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1907. He worked as junior solicitor in

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, then deputy judge in Numedal and Sandsvær from 1908 to 1910. He was again a junior solicitor in Kristiania until 1913, then an attorney in

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for some time before finally settling in Kristiania. He became a barrister in 1916, and after working as judicial consultant and board secretary in De-No-Fa from 1918, he started his own law firm in 1924. In 1930 it was expanded with the barristers Christopher Frederick Hawkins Borchgrevink and Sandborg, creating the firm ''Bugge, Borchgrevink og Sandborg'' which had downtown offices in ''Øvre slottsgate 14''. Among others he was active in the

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, as a

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of Peter Harsem, Svein Svendsen, and

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. He was chairman of the board of the companies ''Lille Frøens Tomteselskap'' and ''Norsk Papirtextil'', and board member of ''Norflex Glidelåsfabrikk'', Norske Zinkprodukter, Nordenfjeldske Teglverk and

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. He chaired the supervisory council of Oslo Handelsbank. He was decorated with the Norwegian

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. He died in July 1972. His funeral took place at

Vestre gravlund Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen (station), Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a cremator ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bugge, Heuch 1883 births 1972 deaths People from Stavanger University of Oslo alumni Norwegian expatriates in Germany 20th-century Norwegian lawyers Personnel of the legal purge in Norway Burials at Vestre gravlund