Ludvig Daae (May 9, 1723 – February 18, 1786) was a Norwegian priest and landowner. Daae was born in

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, the son of Anders Daae (1680–1763) and Birgitte Munthe. He received a master's degree in philosophy in 1746, after which he used the title ''Mag.'' or ''Magister'' 'master'. Daae served as the parish priest in

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from 1759 onward. Daae married Drude Cathrine Haar (1739–1787) when she was 15 years old on June 8, 1754. He had 15 children with her, and several of his children and grandchildren served as priests and officers in

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. Daae was the grandfather of the historian Ludvig Kristensen Daa and the priest Claus Daae, and the great-grandfather of the politician Ludvig Daae, the historian

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, and Suzannah Daae Thoresen, the wife of

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. Daae died and was buried on the island of

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county. Daae left an estate that included 23 farms in Sogn and 31 parts of farms in Lindås. He also owned many churches with tithes: churches in the parish of Lindås (

, Myking,

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, and

churches),

Arnafjord Church Arnafjord Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Nese, along the Arnafjorden. It is the church for the Arnafjord parish which is part of the Sogn pros ...

and

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in the parish of Vik, and

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. The churches and land in the estate amounted to a sales value of over 12,000 rixdollars.

Descendants

Daae had several notable descendants: * Ludvig Daae (1723–1786) ** Anders Daae (1758–1816), priest *** Hans Daae (1808–1865), priest **** Anders Daae, physician, prison director **** Iver Munthe Daae, customs officer in China, art collector ** Johan Christopher Haar Daae, priest *** Sara Margrethe Daae, wife of the priest and politician

Hans Conrad Thoresen Hans Conrad Thoresen (July 28, 1802 – June 11, 1858) was a Norwegian priest, a member of the Storting, and Henrik Ibsen's father-in-law. Thoresen was born the son of a cooper in Tønsberg. He passed his theological exam in 1825 and served as a ...

** Iver Munthe Daae, priest *** Claus Daae priest, politician *** Jens Kobro Daae, priest ** Christen Daae, priest *** Ludvig Kristensen Daa, history professor *** Nicoline Friis Daae (born 1820), wife of Jens Kobro Daae

References

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