Geirulf Bugge (1 February 1862 – 3 November 1940) was a Norwegian judge.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of ship-owner Jørgen Ørbech Bugge (1829–1888) and Amalia Gjerulfsen. He was a brother of priest Christian August Bugge, ship-owner Jens Andreas Hjorth Bugge and civil servant Erling Bugge, and an uncle of barrister

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, art historian Anders Ragnar Bugge and civil servant Karl Ludvig Bugge. In 1892 he married Josefine Othilie Johnsen from

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Career

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his secondary education in 1880, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

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degree in 1885. He became a barrister in 1889, with access to working with Supreme Court cases. He worked as an attorney in Fredrikstad from 1889 to 1918, when he became an

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. In 1919 he was promoted to Supreme Court Justice. While in Fredrikstad he was also elected to the city council and its executive committee. He was also a board member of the

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from 1908 to 1916. He died in November 1940.

References

1862 births 1940 deaths People from Mandal, Norway People from Fredrikstad University of Oslo alumni Østfold politicians 19th-century Norwegian lawyers Supreme Court of Norway justices 20th-century Norwegian judges {{Norway-law-bio-stub