Andreas Bredal Wessel (7 May 1858 – 7 April 1940) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the
Labour Party.
He was born in
Bergen
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as a son of engineer Peter Mathias Wessel (1821–1890) and Mathilde Cecilie Ross (1829–1902). He grew up in
Fredrikstad
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, where he took the
examen artium
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in 1877. He enrolled in medicine studies at the
Royal Frederick University
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, whence he graduated with the
cand.med. degree in 1885. In March 1886 in
Dovre
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he married his first cousin
Ellisif Müller (1866–1949). The newly married couple moved to
Kirkenes, where Wessel had been hired as district physician of
Sør-Varanger
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.
They had seven children, but all died young.
Wessel served as deputy mayor of Sør-Varanger from 1892 to 1898, and deputy representative to the
Parliament of Norway for the constituency
Finmarkens Amt during the term 1895–1897. He represented the
Conservative Party.
[ and in the ]1906 Norwegian parliamentary election
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he was elected deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway again, this time from the constituency ''Øst-Finmarken'' as a running mate of Isak Saba
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From 1918 to 1927 he served as county physician of Finnmark. He was also an amateur anthropologist, ornithologist and local historian. In 1930 he was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav. He died in Kirkenes in April 1940, two days before the ]German invasion of Norway
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References
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1858 births
1940 deaths
Amateur anthropologists
People from Fredrikstad
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian municipal physicians
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Mayors of places in Finnmark
Deputy members of the Storting