Jacob Jørgen Kastrup Sømme (9 January 1817 – 21 October 1893) was a Norwegian businessman,

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and politician.

Personal life

He was born in

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

to merchant and captain Andreas Sømme (1788–1853) and his wife Johanne Cathrine Kastrup (1789–June 1817).Jacob Jørgen Kastrup Sømme genealogy
/ref> In 1845 he married Johanne Margrethe "Hanna" Bull Kielland (1823–1908), youngest daughter of

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and Axeliane Christine Kielland and aunt of novelist Alexander Lange Kielland and painter

Kitty Lange Kielland Kitty Lange Kielland (8 October 1843 – 1 October 1914) was a Norwegian landscape painter. Early life and training Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of Alexander Kielland. Kielland's interactions with her b ...

.Johanne Margrethe (Hanna) Bull Sømme genealogy
/ref> The couple had three daughters and seven sons. Of these children one died young. Their most prominent child was painter Jacob Kielland Sømme. Their oldest daughter Johanne married jurist Ove Høegh Gude. Their sons Axel Christian Zetlitz and Andreas were businessmen, the latter was also the father of geographer Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme. Two other sons Jonas Christian and Erling were jurists, Jonas Christian Sømme was also a local politician. The youngest daughter Maren married literary historian

Gerhard Gran Gerhard von der Lippe Gran (9 December 1856 – 7 April 1925) was a Norwegian literary historian, professor, magazine editor, essayist and biographer. Personal life Gran was born in Bergen as the son of merchant Christen Knagenhjelm Gran (1822� ...

, whereas the youngest son Johannes Kielland Sømme became a consul.

Career

Jacob Jørgen Kastrup Sømme started his career as a businessman as a clerk in

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. In 1838 he returned to Stavanger. Having married a member of the Kielland family in 1845, he became involved in the company of his father-in-law Jacob Kielland. A

ship-owner A ship-owner is the owner of a merchant vessel (commercial ship) and is involved in the shipping industry. In the commercial sense of the term, a shipowner is someone who equips and exploits a ship, usually for delivering cargo at a certain freig ...

, Jacob Jørgen Kastrup Sømme especially concentrated on fishing and exporting

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. He was also vice

for the Russian Empire in 1855 and the

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in 1855. He was Knight of the

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. Sømme was also involved in local politics, as mayor of Stavanger in 1859, 1860 and 1869.

References

1817 births 1893 deaths Norwegian businesspeople Politicians from Stavanger {{Norway-business-bio-stub