Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge (20 May 1838 – 7 April 1896) was a Norwegian theologian and politician for the

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Personal life

Bugge was born in

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as a son of rector Frederik Moltke Bugge (1806–1853) and Anne Marie Magelssen (1811–1874). He was a nephew of professor Søren Bruun Bugge and grandson of bishop

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. In May 1863 Bugge married Edvardine "Dina" Magdalene Margrethe Daae (1841–1921), a daughter of

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Jens Kobro Daae (1811–1897) and sister of Norwegian-American physician Anders Daae.''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
/ref> Their son

Fredrik Moltke Bugge Frederik Moltke Bugge (16 January 1865 – 8 November 1938) was a Norwegian barrister and politician. Personal life He was born in Haram as a son of bishop Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge and Edvardine Magdalene Margrethe Daae. He was a grandson ...

became a barrister and mayor of Kristiania. Through this son, who married a daughter of bishop

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,''Hvem er hvem?'' 1912
/ref> Wilhelm Bugge was a grandfather of barrister Wilhelm Bugge, and great-grandfather of barrister of Frederik Moltke Bugge and Supreme Court Justice

Jens Bugge Jens Bugge (10 May 1930 – 9 November 2014) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in Oslo as a son of barrister Wilhelm Bugge and brother of barrister Frederik Moltke Bugge. He was a grandson of barrister Fredrik Moltke Bugge, great-grandson of bi ...

Career

Bugge served as vicar in Holmestrand from 1866, before being appointed professor of theology at the Royal Frederick University in 1870. He was a theological conservative, and edited the magazine '' Luthersk Ugeskrift'' until 1880. He is best known for his popular

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documents such as the Epistles of Paul,

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, the

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and the

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. He also worked with a new translation of the New Testament, but this translation was ultimately published several years after his death, in 1904. Bugge was also elected to the

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from the constituency ''Kristiania, Hønefoss og Kongsvinger'' in

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, and served through the term 1883–1885. In 1893 he was appointed Bishop of Oslo. He served until his death in April 1896.

References

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