Michel

Krohn Krohn is the surname of several people: * Aino Krohn, a Finnish author better known as Aino Kallas * August David Krohn, a Russian zoologist * Chester A. Krohn, American politician * , a German Federal Court Justice * Felix Krohn, Finnish compose ...

was born in 1793 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 o ...

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and died in 1878. He was a trader and was the driving force behind the foundation of several important companies in Bergen like: ''Det Bergenske Sjøforsikringsselskab'' (1845), '' Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskap'' (1851), ''Bergens Mekaniske Verksted'' (1855) and '' Bergens Privatbank'' (1855). In 1829 Michael Krohn bought the estate Wernersholm at Hop outside Bergen, he then had the "paper" church "Hop Kirke" built by Werner Hosewinckel Christie taken down. In 1831 he had the current "Wernersholmveien 20" built as a place for recreation. In 1859

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguishe ...

was the guest of Michael Krohn at Wernersholm where Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson wrote parts of the Norwegian anthem '' Ja vi elsker''. Later descendants of Michael Krohn includes dr. Med. Georg Herman Monrad-Krohn and the Norwegian computer entrepreneur Lars Monrad-Krohn. Michael Krohn has a street named after him in Bergen, ''Michael Krohns Gate''.

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article in ''Norsk biografisk leksikon'' (NBL)
1793 births 1878 deaths Businesspeople from Bergen in shipping {{norway-business-bio-stub