Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull (13 September 1817 – 15 April 1907) was a Norwegian civil servant and government minister. He served as acting Minister of the Army in 1875 (twice), 1881 and 1884. He also served as mayor of Oslo in 1877 and 1878.

Background

He was born at

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

, Norway. He was a son of Chief Justice

Georg Jacob Bull Georg Jacob Bull (born 1 August 1785 in Christiania, died 12 December 1854) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was a stipendiary magistrate (''byfogd'') of Bergen from 1810 to 1821. While stationed here, he was elected to the Norwegian ...

(1785-1854) and Barbara Albertine Ørsted (1783-1865). His mother was a sister of Danish physicist

Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted ( , ; often rendered Oersted in English; 14 August 17779 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity ...

and of Danish jurist

Anders Sandøe Ørsted Anders Sandøe Ørsted (21 December 1778 – 1 May 1860) was a Danish lawyer, politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853–1854. Biography He studied philosophy and law at the University of Copenhagen and wa ...

. He was a grandson of Chief Justice

Johan Randulf Bull Johan Randulf Bull (29 April 1749 – 28 February 1829) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in Stod, as the brother of Johan Lausen Bull. He took the jurist examination in Copenhagen in 1778, and was a member of ''Det Norske Selskab'' there ...

, a grandnephew of

Johan Lausen Bull Johan Lausen Bull (14 May 1751 – 29 July 1817) was a Norwegian jurist, politician and land owner. Tøyen Manor He was born in Stod in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the son of Captain Jørgen Andreas Bull (1703–1764) and Dorothea Catharina W ...

and an uncle of chief physician Edvard Isak Hambro Bull.

Career

In 1835, he became a student at

Bergen Cathedral School Bergen Cathedral School ( Norwegian: ''Bergen Katedralskole'', Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Bergensis'', formerly known as Bergens lærdeskole and Bergen latinskole and colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Lo ...

. He joined the Ministry of the Army in 1837. In 1840, he became a legal candidate. He was a representative in 1846, bureau chief in 1850 and expedition secretary in 1854. He was appointed General War Commissioner of the Army in 1860. In 1875, he was acting Minister of the Army from 26 May to 4 June, and from 6 July to 20 July. He was also acting Minister of the Army from 16 September to 25 September 1881 and from 19 March to 2 April 1884. He later served as the Mayor of Oslo in 1877 and 1878.

Personal life

He was married in 1848 to Caroline Elisabeth Dahl (b. 1822), surviving daughter of the artist

Johan Christian Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish- Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and, by some ...

. They had the son Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull who would become Minister of Defence from 1910 to 1912.

References

1817 births 1907 deaths Government ministers of Norway Norwegian civil servants Mayors of Oslo Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{Norway-politician-1810s-stub