Carsten Henrik Carstensen Bruun (1828–1907) was a

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whaler.

Personal life

He was born in

Risør is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located on the Skagerrak coast in the traditional region of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of Risør municipality is the town of Risør. There are many villages in Risør such as Akland, ...

as a son of Mathias Wogen Bruun (1791–1858) and Ingeborg Carstensen (1794–1882). His wife was a relative of founding father

Henrik Carstensen Henrik Carstensen (30 October 1753 – 15 September 1835) was a Norwegian businessman, timber merchant and shipowner. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814. Henrik Carstensen was born on the island of Risøy ...

. In 1859 he married Maren Sibylle Bull Foyn (1840–1918), a daughter of Laurentius Føyn Jr and niece of noted whaler

Svend Foyn Svend Foyn (July 9, 1809 – November 30, 1894) was a Norwegian whaling, shipping magnate and philanthropist. He pioneered revolutionary methods for hunting and processing whales. Svend Foyn introduced the modern harpoon cannon and brought ...

. They had three sons and two daughters. Their second son Carsten Henrik Bruun Jr. was a chief executive, and their third son Svend Foyn Bruun was a naval officer, ship-owner, whaler and politician. Through the latter, Carsten Bruun was a grandfather of Svend Foyn Bruun Jr.

Career

Bruun was involved in

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

and sealing from 1851. was a shipmaster of whaling vessels, including ''Isbjørn'' which belonged to Svend Foyn and ''Harald Haarfagre'' which belonged to Tho. Joh. Heftye. For the company Tho. Joh. Heftye between 1872 and 1879 he participated, as the first Norwegian, in whaling in the

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. In the company Bruuns Hvalfangerselskap he was the owner of the ship ''Immanuel''. The company had whaling stations in

Sør-Varanger Municipality Sør-Varanger ( sme, Máttá-Várjjat, fkv, Etelä-Varenki, fi, Etelä-Varanki, russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер/Syor-Varánger) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town ...

and

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, and participated in the extinction of whales in

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. His ventures in Finnmark lasted from 1881 to 1899. Bruun received a gold medal from the

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and was decorated as a Knight of the

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References

1828 births 1907 deaths People from Risør Norwegian businesspeople in shipping Norwegian people in whaling Sealers {{Norway-business-bio-stub