Christian Andreas Irgens (6 July 1833 - 15 April 1915) was a Norwegian businessman and

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Biography

He was born in Bergen, Norway as the son of Johan Daniel Stub Irgens and Susanne Cathrine Møller. Through his father he was a distant relative of

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who was a member of the

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in 1814. Irgens was a member of the Bergen City Council. At that time he worked as a businessman operating the Bjørsvik Flour Mill (''Bjørsvigs Melforretning'') on

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outside Bergen. He had been a deputy representative in 1874–1878 and was elected to the

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in 1895, representing the rural constituency ''Søndre Bergenhus Amt'' (today named

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). Christian Andreas Irgens
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) Irgens married twice; Marcel Ingeborg Marie Wesenberg (1836-1866), Sally Camilla Jahnsen (1846-1913). He died during 1915 in the Fjøsanger area of Bergen.

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1833 births 1915 deaths Politicians from Bergen Businesspeople from Bergen Members of the Storting Hordaland politicians {{Norway-politician-1830s-stub