Klaus Hanssen (23 May 1844 - 19 December 1914) was a Norwegian

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and politician for the

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and the Coalition Party. He was born in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

, a son of merchant Claus Hansen and Elisabeth Schram, and was a brother of

Gerhard Armauer Hansen Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen () (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium ''Mycobacterium leprae'' in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy. His distinguished work was ...

. He was first married to Ida Christine Johannessen, and a second time to Dorothea Marstrand Serck. He was the father of mining executive Klaus Serck-Hanssen, and grandfather of Arne Serck-Hanssen. He served as a deputy representative to the

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during the terms 1889–1891, representing the constituency

. He was a member of Bergen

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for several years,Klaus Hanssen
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) and served as mayor in 1894. He later joined the Coalition Party, and served as a parliamentary deputy again during the term 1904–1906. Born in Bergen, he graduated as

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in 1872 and worked as a physician the rest of his professional life.

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1844 births 1914 deaths Members of the Storting Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Coalition Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of Bergen 19th-century Norwegian physicians {{Norway-politician-1840s-stub