Honoratus Bonnevie (15 June 1797 – 27 March 1848) was a Norwegian politician.

Life

He was the son of district stipendiary magistrate Niels Cornelius Bonnevie (1756–1836). His great-grandfather had migrated to Norway from

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of ...

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, and he was a grandson of

Honoratus Bonnevie Honoratus Bonnevie (5 December 1726 – 8 November 1811) was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Odense, Denmark as the son of Honoré Bonnevie and his wife Boel Corneliusdatter. His mother hailed from Svelvik, Norway whereas his father hailed ...

and a nephew of

Andreas Bonnevie Andreas Bonnevie (6 March 1782 – 10 April 1833) was a Norwegian priest and politician. He was born in Mandal as the son of physician Honoratus Bonnevie and his second wife Kathrine Tørrisdatter. His grandfather had migrated to Norway from Anti ...

. He was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years base ...

in 1845 and 1848, representing the urban constituency of ''Throndhjem og Levanger''. He served as

burgomaster Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, literally "master of the town, master of the borough, master of the fortress, master of the citizens") is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief m ...

there. He died in the same year as his last election.

Family

He married Sophie Augusta Baumann (1804–1895) in 1826 in

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. She was a daughter of August Christian Baumann and Margrethe Sophie Stockfleth, granddaughter of Thomas Rosing de Stockfleth, niece of Samuel William Manthey and a first cousin of

August Christian Manthey August Christian Manthey August Christian Manthey (14 February 1811 – 25 May 1880) was a Norwegian Minister who held several government posts in the period 1856–1875. He served as Minister of Auditing, Justice, Finance, the Interior, the Navy a ...

.Genealogy
for Sophie Augusta Baumann (vestraat.net) Honoratus Bonnevie and his wife Sophie had the daughter Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson and the son

Jacob Aall Bonnevie Jacob Aall Bonnevie (31 December 1838 – 13 August 1904) was a Norwegian educator, school director and text book author. He served as a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party. Biography Bonnevie was born in Christia ...

, a politician. Through the former he was a father-in-law of art historian

Lorentz Dietrichson Lorentz Henrik Segelcke Dietrichson (1 January 1834 Bergen - 6 March 1917) was a Norwegian poet and historian of art and literature. Biography Lorentz Henrik Segelcke Dietrichson was the son of Fredrik Dietrichson (1800–52) and Marie Heiberg ...

, and through the latter he was the grandfather of professor

Kristine Bonnevie Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (8 October 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian biologist, Norway's first female professor, women's rights activist and politician for the Free-minded Liberal Party. Her fields of research were cytology, genet ...

, judge

Thomas Bonnevie Thomas Bonnevie (12 September 1879 – 19 May 1960) was a Norwegian Supreme Court justice. Biography Bonnevie was born at Trondheim, Norway. He was a son of Member of Parliament and cabinet minister Jacob Aall Bonnevie (1838–1904) and Anne Joh ...

and politician

Carl Emil Christian Bonnevie Carl Emil Christian Bonnevie (28 April 1881 – 26 September 1972) was a Norwegian jurist and peace activist. He also served as a Member of the Norwegian Parliament. Biography Bonnevie was born in Trondheim as the son of Jacob Aall Bonnevi ...

. Through another daughter Christine Augusta, he was the father-in-law of Lorentz Henrik Müller Segelcke.

References

1797 births 1848 deaths Members of the Storting Politicians from Trondheim Norwegian people of French descent Bonnevie family {{Norway-politician-1790s-stub