Niels Andreas Vibe (12 July 1759 – 9 September 1814) was a Norwegian military officer and civil and royal servant. He served as County Governor of ''Nordre Bergenhus Amt'' from 1802 to 1811, as

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of Norway from 1811 to 1814, and as

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to King Christian Frederick of Norway from 1814. He was born in

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as a son of

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Johan Christian Vibe (1716–1764) and Anne Cathrine Pihl (1725–1773). He was a brother of

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and Ditlev Wibe. In October 1795 in

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he married Margery Kierulf (1775–1852). They had the son Ludvig Vibe and the daughter Henriette Gislesen. Another daughter Line Vibe married

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, who was her second cousin. Niels Andreas Vibe was also a great-grandfather of Henrik Dedichen and Carl Looft. He graduated from the Free School of Mathematics in 1780, and started serving in a

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regiment. Already from 1781 he worked for the institution that many years later became known as the

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, notably with

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. He became Commissary of War in ''Vesterlenske distrikt'' in 1795, and in the Diocese of Christianssand in 1798. From 1802 to 1811 he served as County Governor of ''Nordre Bergenhus Amt''. In 1810 he founded the

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branch of the

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. He had formerly been a member of the

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, and was also an active member and honorary member of '' Det nyttige Selskab'' and a singer in the

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. From 1811 to 1814 he was Commissary of War for the whole of Norway, and from May 1814 to his death he served as

for King Christian Frederick of Norway. Vibe died in September 1814 in Christiania.

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1759 births 1814 deaths Norwegian Military Academy alumni Norwegian Army personnel Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars County governors of Norway People from Rollag J {{Norway-mil-bio-stub