Nils Henrik Bruun (1832–1916) was a

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Biography

Nils Henrik Bruun was born in

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in 1832. Educated at Chalmers in Gothenburg, and in Germany, Bruun moved to Bergen in 1863 where he engaged in several engineering ventures; he and Peter Jebsen founded the factories in Dale, and later he engages in mining in

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and

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. He received the contract to build the tunnels on Vossebanen in 1875. During the 1880s he was director of Bergen Mekaniske Verksted, and in 1898 he bought half the rights to the waterfalls in

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, selling them to

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in 1906. He was awarded the Order of St. Olav in 1894. He died in February or early March 1916 at age 84.

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1832 births 1916 deaths Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian engineers Norwegian mining engineers People from Tønsberg {{Norway-engineer-stub